Senior Energy Systems Engineer — Thermal & Energy Reuse

Stircor; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stircor is seeking a deeply experienced energy systems engineer to own the thermal and energy-reuse backend of its biosolids processing plants, including gasification, thermal oxidation, heat recovery, and energy conversion. This role requires a practitioner who can design, analyze, and troubleshoot in the field without supervision.

Located in Chattanooga, TN, with field time at operating and startup sites, the candidate should bring 15+ (20+ welcome) years in thermal/energy process engineering

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in thermal/energy process engineering.
• Hands-on plant commissioning and operations experience.
• Strong modeling and equipment specification skills.
• Experience in biosolids, waste-to-energy, or wastewater sectors preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize gasification, thermal ducting, oxidizers, heat exchangers, and energy-recovery systems.
• Model thermal and mass balances, throughput, and emissions for plants.
• Specify equipment and interface with gasifier, dryer, and ORC vendors.
• Support commissioning, startup, and performance testing of energy systems.
• Troubleshoot field performance and drive root-cause fixes into design standards.
• Support permitting and emissions compliance with engineering analyses.
• Document design rationale and operating envelopes for institutional knowledge transfer.
• Mentor mid-level engineers across disciplines.

Skills

Thermal energy engineering

Field troubleshooting

Mentoring

Thermal/mass balance modeling

Job description

Stircor is seeking a deeply experienced energy systems engineer to own the thermal and energy-reuse backend of its biosolids processing plants, including gasification, thermal oxidation, heat recovery, and energy conversion. This role requires a practitioner who can design, analyze, and troubleshoot in the field without supervision.

Located in Chattanooga, TN, with field time at operating and startup sites, the candidate should bring 15+ (20+ welcome) years in thermal/energy process engineering