Metallurgy Specialist, DRI-EAF for Green Steel Plant

Instrat; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Mentorship & growth

Contract clarity

Competitive compensation

Purpose-driven project

Job summary

Fundacja Instrat in Poland leads a first-of-a-kind New Green Steel Plant project. We seek a hands-on Technical Specialist to benchmark DRI-EAF/related tech, support vendor evaluations, and maintain core design documentation from pre-feasibility through FEED. You will work with the project team, building deep expertise under senior technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in metallurgical engineering or closely related field.
• 3–7 years hands-on technical or process-engineering experience in metallurgy or heavy-process industries.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to build technical comparisons and mass/energy balances.
• Clear written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-motivated with ownership mindset in a small, fast-moving team.
• Fluent English; Polish is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark DRI-EAF, downstream, and hydrogen electrolysis tech options with benchmarking materials.
• Draft and coordinate vendor RFIs/RFPs, maintain documentation across packages.
• Maintain core technical docs: PFDs, mass/energy balances, design assumptions register.
• Monitor industry developments and translate findings into the project knowledge base.

Skills

Metallurgical Eng

Heavy industry exp

Analytical skills

Communication

Ownership mindset

English language

Polish language (advantage)

Education

Metallurgical Engineering degree

Job description

Technical Specialist – DRI-EAF Process & Metallurgy

Fundacja Instrat is developing aNew Green Steel Plant– aproject tobuild afirst-of-a-kind, near-zero-emission flat-steel mill innorthern Poland based onhydrogen direct reduction and electric arc furnace technology (H2-DRI-EAF), with on-site electrolysis and Baltic renewable power. Weare looking for ametallurgical engineer totake onahands-on technical role inthe project’s development team, supporting technology evaluation, vendor assessment and engineering documentation from pre-feasibility through FEED.

This is ahands-on technical execution role, not aleadership position. You will work closely with Instrat’s project team and, asthe team grows, the project’s Technical Director, building deep first-hand expertise inafirst-of-a-kind technology while supporting the analysis and documentation that underpins the project’s technical decisions.

Scope of responsibilities

• Technical benchmarking.Support the evaluation of DRI, electric arc furnace, downstream and hydrogen electrolysis technology options – preparing comparison matrices, technical write-ups and benchmarking materials that inform the project’s technology decisions.
• Vendor RFI/RFP support.Draft technical questionnaires, coordinate vendor responses, and maintain structured documentation of RFI/RFP processes across technology and equipment packages.
• – Technical basis of design.Maintain and update core technical documentation – process flow diagrams, mass and energy balances, and the project’s technical assumptions register – asthe design matures through pre-feasibility and FEED.
• – Industry tracking.Monitor developments inDRI-EAF and adjacent green steel technologies, and translate relevant findings into the project’s internal knowledge base.

Cross-functional support

• Interfaces with financial & energy modelling.Work with the project’s financial and energy-modelling colleagues toensure technical assumptions – CAPEX components, consumption rates, technical parameters – are accurately reflected inproject economics.
• Stakeholder materials.Prepare technical inputs and supporting materials for permitting processes, investor and public-institution communications, and due-diligence requests.

Requirements

• Engineering education.Degree inmetallurgical engineering (oraclosely related discipline: materials, mechanical, chemical orprocess engineering).
• Relevant experience.3-7 years of hands-on technical orprocess-engineering experience inmetallurgy, steelmaking (EAF orintegrated route), DRI, oracomparable heavy-process industry.
• Analytical rigour.Strong quantitative skills – comfortable building technical comparisons, mass/energy balances and structured benchmarking analysis.
• Communication.Able totranslate technical detail into clear, decision-ready materials for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ownership & learning mindset.Self-motivated and comfortable working inasmall, fast-moving development team; keen tobuild deep expertise inafirst-of-a-kind technology under the guidance of senior technical leadership.
• Language.Fluent English is required; Polish is an advantage.Experience weespecially valueThe pool of people with direct H2-DRI-EAF experience is very small worldwide. Wetherefore welcome candidates from adjacent heavy-process industries whose experience transfers directly.
• Ideal:hands-on technical orprocess-engineering experience inDRI, EAF, integrated steelmaking, orrolling-mill operations.
• Strongly transferable:process ortechnical engineering experience inadjacent heavy industries (e.g. chemicals, hydrogen, cement, power), with agenuine interest inbuilding steel-specific expertise.
• Aplus:prior exposure totechnology vendor evaluation, RFI/RFP processes, orFEED-stage engineering documentation.You donot need tomeet every requirement.If you have hands-on technical experience inmetallurgy oracomparable process industry and want tobuild deep expertise onafirst-of-a-kind project, weencourage you toapply.

What weoffer

• Adefining project.The chance tobuild deep, first-hand expertise onthe first large-scale green steel plant inCentral and Eastern Europe, from ablank sheet toinvestment decision.
• Mentorship & growth.Direct exposure to, and mentorship from, the project’s leadership and Instrat’s expert team – agenuine growth path asthe project and your role scale together.
• Contract.Afixed-term development engagement, with the prospect of continuing into later project phases (employment contract orB2B, tobeagreed).
• Compensation.Acompetitive package for the role and experience level.
• Relocation.[remote orrelocation toPoland] Relocation and mobility support for theproject location innorthern Poland.
• Autonomy with backing.Real, hands-on involvement intechnical decisions, with the support of Instrat’s analytical, financing and strategy teams.
• Purpose.Work with amission – strengthening Poland’s industrial autonomy and cutting industrial CO2 emissions atscale.

How toapply

Please send your CV and, if you have one, your LinkedIn profile [e-mail] “Technical Specialist – DRI-EAF” inthe subject line. Along cover letter is not required – aconcise note onyour hands-on technical experience inmetallurgy oracomparable process industry is far more useful.

More about us:https://instrat.pl/en/; more about the project:https://instrat.pl/en/green-steel-made-in-poland/

Please include the following clause with your application: “I consent tothe processing of mypersonal data for the purposes of this recruitment process, inaccordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR).”

Who weare

Fundacja Instrat is aprogressive think-tank that supports public debate and policy with open data and research, working towards afair, green and digital economy. Our research programmes span energy and climate policy, sustainable finance, the digital economy, and labour and inequality. Weare ateam of more than 20 experts driven byasense of public-interest mission. ANew Green Steel Plantis our flagship industrial-decarbonisation initiative.