Process Development Lead for Scalable Lime & Carbon Removal

Origen; Newport; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

Sick leave after probation

Employee share options

Enhanced parental leave

Wellbeing bonus

Salary sacrifice pension

Employee Assistance Programme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Origen Carbon is building zero-emission lime and moving from demonstration toward commercial deployment. We are hiring a Process Development Lead to own the process questions that will define our future plants, working closely with our VP Technology and Design Engineering Manager.

The role is an individual contributor starting point with room to grow as we scale, requiring genuine process engineering experience in an industrial setting and a track record of collaborating with OEMs and external

Qualifications

• Process engineering experience in an industrial, capital-intensive setting.
• Able to work on long-term process questions without fixed deadlines.
• Has worked directly with OEMs, suppliers or external technical partners.
• Comfortable with heat and mass balances and process flow diagrams.
• Background in lime, cement, minerals processing or high-temperature industries; CFD/kiln modelling experience.

Responsibilities

• Own a prioritized portfolio of process improvement initiatives; coordinate with VP Technology and Design Engineering Manager.
• Assess R&D concepts for industrial scale-up potential: technical feasibility and cost impact.
• Translate scientific findings into engineering-ready process requirements; feed design constraints back to R&D.
• Lead feasibility and trade-off analyses for major process changes (firing/powering plants).
• Build relationships with OEMs, suppliers and external technical partners.
• Work with Design Engineering as the process voice in reviews.
• Report progress and risks to VP Technology and contribute to investor discussions.

Skills

Process engineering

Industrial setting experience

OEM collaboration

Heat and mass balances

CFD/flowsheet modelling

Job description

Origen Carbon is building zero-emission lime and moving from demonstration toward commercial deployment. We are hiring a Process Development Lead to own the process questions that will define our future plants, working closely with our VP Technology and Design Engineering Manager.

The role is an individual contributor starting point with room to grow as we scale, requiring genuine process engineering experience in an industrial setting and a track record of collaborating with OEMs and external