Senior Reliability Engineer

Mission Zero Technologies; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Zero Technologies, a climate-tech start-up in London, seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of state-of-the-art carbon capture technology. The successful candidate will lead initiatives in maintenance strategies and reliability modeling to support scaling our solutions globally. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the fight against climate change and work in a dynamic start-up environment.

Benefits

30 Days of Annual Leave

3 Months Paternity/Maternity Leave

Unlimited mental health support

Employee Share Options Scheme

Christmas holidays office closure

Cycle to Work scheme

Employer-matched contributions to global re-wilding programme

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years' industrial experience in reliability engineering.
• Experience in commissioning and start-up in industrial settings.
• Understanding of HAZID, HAZOP, and risk management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing equipment reliability with operations teams.
• Developing maintenance and servicing strategy across the company.
• Conducting failure analysis and proposing improvement plans.

Skills

Reliability Engineering

Machinery Maintenance

Problem Solving

Technical Optimization

Education

MEng Engineering Degree

Tools

Reliability Modelling Tools

Job description

We’re a London-based climate-tech start-up, working to reframe how the world views carbon in order to enable a thriving planet. Since 2020, we have pioneered the world’s most versatile direct air capture (DAC) technology to recover historic CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere, anywhere, at any scale.

Backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the XPRIZE foundation, Stripe, and the UK Government, we’ve moved a brand new climate technology from lab scale to commercial plants in under three years, to empower carbon removal and sustainable utilisation.

About the role

Join MZT at a pivotal moment as we transition from an early-stage R&D startup to a revenue-generating company ready to scale our direct-air capture technology globally.

We’re hiring a Senior Reliability Engineer with skills in machinery maintenance and equipment reliability improvement programmes, ideally with experience in reliability analysis of absorption, scrubbing, gas-liquid separation systems, and/or electrodialytic processes. In this role you will assess and strategise for the maintenance and service of our growing technology deployments at industrial scale.

Inheriting MZT product modules designed and built by our delivery team, you will monitor our pilot plant experimental phases, paying particular attention to breakdowns and problem solving, learning the key reliability weak points of our technology in extended operation.

While the role is based at our headquarters in East-Central London, expect regular assignments at emerging UK sites and international locations as we expand. This will require you to show safe and effective operational and maintenance standards while experiencing periodic rotational shifts with existing MZT science & engineering staff members to better understand the function of our systems.

We ensure our early-stage employees are co-owners of the business, integral to the Mission Zero story and the fight against climate change.

What you'll be doing

• Equipment Reliability : Reviewing and optimising equipment reliability in collaboration with our operations team.
• Reliability Modelling : Creating a reliability model to interface with planned condition based monitoring initiatives, predicting uptime effectively for current and future plants considering MTTF, MTTR and spares optimisation.
• Maintenance Strategies : Creating overarching plans for maintenance and servicing strategy across the company.
• Servicing Oversight : Witness and be involved in operating and servicing MZT plant at our first industrial Pilot Plants, in Sheffield, UK; Norfolk, UK; Alberta, Canada. The UK’s first DAC plant, UK’s first deployment of carbon negative DAC technology and Canada’s flagship mineralisation facility respectively.
• Reporting: Monitor and report on sustained operations over months of plant operations.
• Health & Safety: Following and demonstrating our at-site Health & Safety culture.
• Failure modes : Identify any important failure modes and input ideas for product improvement.
• Troubleshooting: Deal with issues that arise, with good record-keeping for required interventions to be passed back to the product improvement team.
• Root Causes: Get involved in failure analysis, using multiple methodologies to find root causes and propose improvement plans.
• Reducing Uncertainty : Where component lifetimes are uncertain due to process novelties, working with relevant parties to research, test, validate and create predictions about component lifetime in the process.

What you'll need to be successful in thisrole

• MEng Engineering Degree within a suitable discipline.
• 6 years' minimum industrial experience with significant exposure to reliability engineering, maintenance protocols, and/or operations across multiple industries.
• Experience in commissioning, start-up and turnaround in a variety of industrial settings.
• Practical skills, being comfortable with both hands-on work and desk-based tasks. There will be opportunity to test ideas and designs in our labs / workshops to validate new technologies or improvements.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Demonstrated understanding of hazard and risk identification (HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL).
• Interest in developing skills in an exciting start-up, new technology environment, where you can rapidly grow your experience.
• Experience repairing plants in challenging environments.
• A passion for optimising technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, Maintenance / OEE.
• Functional understanding of chemical, electrical, mechanical portions of various unit operations such as gas-liquid contacting, water treatment, membrane processes.

Ideally you'll also have

• Experience in a startup environment
• Expertise in process safety procedures with workshop leadership certification
• Experience in Research & Development pilot facilities
• Chartered status with a relevant engineering institution e.g. SaRS
• Suitable safety accreditation e.g. NEBOSH
• Lean operational certificate, e.g. six sigma or equivalent
• Continuous improvement training / programme experience
• Experience working with absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems and/or electrodialysis
• Good understanding of hazard and risk identification
• Basic understanding of electrochemistry and industrial chemistry knowledge.
• Familiarity with servicing of processes handling industrial gases, especially CO2

What we can offer you

• 30 Days of Annual Leave
• 3 Months Paternity/Maternity Leave
• Unlimited mental health support
• Employee Share Options Scheme
• Christmas holidays office closure
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employer-matched contributions to global re-wilding programme
• Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
• A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity

At Mission Zero, we value diversity of cultural backgrounds, experience, and perspectives, and leverage these qualities to create exceptional outcomes. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, sex, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation.

Our Hiring Process

Kindly allow us up to 2 weeks to review your application. Providing both of our schedules align, the total hiring process should take 4-6 weeks total to wrap up.

• Application review
• Intro Call with Functional Lead and Hiring Manager
• Getting to know you - (Partner Assessment)