Pilot Engineer

Ragn-Sell; Uppsala kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

EasyMining in Uppsala is seeking a Pilot Engineer to support its R&D team in designing, setting up, testing, and running pilot plants and maintaining pilot equipment. The role involves on-site work with chemical processes, handling potentially dangerous reagents, and operating leaching reactors and solid-liquid separation equipment.

You will contribute to scaling our innovative phosphorus and nitrogen recovery technologies, ensuring safe operations, calibration, and documentation of pilot

Qualifications

• Master of Science or Engineering required.
• Fluent in English (speaking and writing).
• Able to read Swedish text.
• Experience with process equipment in a process plant or manufacturing environment.
• Willing to work hands-on developing EasyMining’s processes.
• Craft skills and technical understanding.
• A valid work permit for Sweden and Europe.

Responsibilities

• Design, set-up and execute pilot work with a safety-first perspective
• Run and troubleshoot pilot set-ups
• Maintenance of equipment
• Act as a team member on an operations crew
• Handling of chemicals in a safe manner
• Provide documentation of work

Skills

Process equipment

Hands-on development

Fluent English

Reading Swedish

Craft skills

Technical understanding

Valid work permit Sweden/Europe

Education

Master of Science or Engineering

Tools

Laboratory equipment operation

Job description

Do you want to join us and create a more sustainable future?

EasyMining is looking for a Pilot Engineer in Uppsala who want to participate in the transition to a circular economy and help save the world's resources.

EasyMining is in the process of commercializing technologies based on its patented innovations and processes that recover clean commercial products using waste as raw material.

Our technologies include phosphorus recovery from ashes of incinerated sewage sludge, a process that can reduce the energy requirement for treating nitrogen-containing wastewater by recovering the nitrogen in form of commercial products, as well as a process for extraction of salts from fly ash from household waste incineration.

We are now looking for a new team member to support our team in designing, setting up, testing, and running pilots as well as maintaining pilot equipment.

Do you want to take part and influence the world?

Job brief

You will support our R&D team that works with developing and upscaling our processes.
The position is in our R&D Department in Uppsala and includes on-site work with setting up, optimization, calibration, and maintenance of our equipment as well as running of setups according to recipes.
For this, you will handle a variety of chemicals, which can be dangerous in different ways. Most commonly, they have either a very high or low pH and some emit dangerous fumes.

Our R&D facility designed for test and scale-up of chemical processes. We use equipment common in hydrometallurgy and chemical processes including leaching reactors, solid-liquid separation equipment (e.g. filter presses, belt filter, centrifuges), mixer-settlers and separation columns for solvent extraction, different kinds of pumps, evaporator etc. In addition, we maintain and operate a wide range of laboratory and analytical equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design, set-up and execute pilot work with a safety-first perspective
• Run and troubleshoot pilot set-ups
• Maintenance of equipment
• Act as a team member on an operations crew
• Handling of chemicals in a safe manner
• Provide documentation of work

We offer you

A stimulating and challenging job where you will have the opportunity to develop skills and abilities together with motivated coworkers.

You will take part in the development of new technologies that have the potential to change the world for the better, as well as

the improvement of existing ones.

Required education, skills, and experience

• Relevant experience in a process plant or manufacturing environment, Master of Science or Engineering
• Fluent in the English language both speaking and writing
• Good capability in reading Swedish Text
• Experience with process equipment
• Willing to work hands on developing EasyMining’s processes
• Craft skills and technical understanding
• A valid work permit for Sweden and Europe

Beneficial skills and experience

• Working proficiency in Swedish
• Experience with industrial chemical processes (for example fertilizer, mining, pulp and paper)
• Experience with industrial solid-liquid separation processes
• Experience with industrial precipitation and crystallization processes
• Experience with the operation of laboratory equipment
• A willingness to travel for potential pilot trials (e.g. South Sweden, Germany, Netherlands)

Further information

EasyMining is an innovation company dedicated to closing nutrient cycles. We are owned by the Swedish environmental company

Ragn-Sells group since 2014. Ragn-Sells is operating in 5 countries with an annual turnover of above 800 M€ and approximately 2500 employees.

EasyMining is today employing over 60 people. The engineering and management office is located in the city center of Gothenburg (Gårda), the R&D is situated with office and laboratory facilities in Uppsala, and our German office is located in Berlin.

Deadline is September 20. Our selection process is continuous, and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the screening or interview phase.

If you have any further questions please contact:

Olof Haglund (Group Manager) [e-mail]

Stephan Liefeldt (Pilot Manager) [e-mail]

Background

Recovery and recycling of nutrients such as phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium from society back to the agriculture is important for sustainability. Phosphorus and potassium are scarce resources in which EU is heavily dependent on virgin import while the manufacturing of mineral nitrogen fertilizers especially has a big negative climate impact. Today, biological methods are almost solely used for treating nitrogen containing wastewaters. These processes consume large amounts of energy due to aerification and use of fossil raw materials. In addition, the established processes to produce nitrogen fertilizers (from natural gas) lead to further emissions of greenhouse gases.

EasyMining has several patented processes that enable recovery of clean commercial products by using waste as raw materials.

Examples of our processes are phosphorus recovery from incinerated sewage sludge ashes (Ash2Phos) and nitrogen recovery (Project N) from nitrogen containing wastewater.
The Aqua2N technology enables to chemically both extract the nitrogen from sewage wastewater but also convert the extracted nitrogen to a commercial nitrogen fertilizer and thereby reduce carbon emissions.

You can read more about us and our technologies at our webpage.