Senior Lithium Extraction Chemist & Materials Scientist

Empower; Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas (TX, TX, TX); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Empower EIT is seeking a Senior Chemist / Materials Scientist to own the chemistry of its Direct Lithium Extraction platform, including sorbent development, elution, and conversion of eluate to battery-grade lithium carbonate. You will drive bench to pilot operations and shape the design basis for a commercial-scale unit.

The role requires a PhD and 5+ years in hydrometallurgy or related areas, with hands-on experience in multiple unit operations and scale-up, plus experience mentoring staff and

Formación

• PhD in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of industrial or applied R&D in hydrometallurgy, sorbent or ion-exchange development, or critical-mineral extraction.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of: ion exchange, solvent extraction, leaching.
• Demonstrated scale-up of a process or material from bench to pilot, including mass balances.
• Proficiency with ICP, XRD, SEM, BET and FTIR, and with Design of Experiments.
• Track record of SOP and QA/QC documentation suitable for technology transfer.
• Authorization to work in the United States; willingness to travel to pilot and field sites.

Responsabilidades

• Lead development of lithium-selective sorbents and ion-exchange media.
• Improve capacity, selectivity, kinetics and cycle life across brines of differing chemistry.
• Scale media synthesis from gram to production batches.
• Develop and optimize load, wash, elution and regeneration chemistry.
• Develop purification and precipitation steps to battery-grade lithium.
• Characterize feed brines and identify scaling and impurity risks.
• Translate bench results into pilot operating strategies and support pilot commissioning.
• Build and validate mass balances; support flowsheet modeling and design basis of the commercial unit.
• Work with process engineering and operations on the design basis of the commercial unit.
• Run and develop analytical methods (ICP-OES, XRD, SEM, BET, FTIR) and supervise data quality.
• Write SOPs and QA/QC protocols; support product certificates of analysis for customer qualification.
• Apply DOE and root-cause analysis to test programs.
• Generate invention disclosures and support patent filings; document work for regulatory and grant reporting.
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians; present results to management, partners and investors.
• Lead laboratory HSE practice for corrosive and hazardous reagents.

Conocimientos

Chemistry

R&D leadership

Analytical methods

Process development

Technical communication

Educación

PhD in Chemistry/Mater. Sci./Chemical Eng.

Herramientas

ICP

XRD

SEM

BET

FTIR

METSIM

DWSIM

Aspen

Descripción del empleo

Empower EIT is seeking a Senior Chemist / Materials Scientist to own the chemistry of its Direct Lithium Extraction platform, including sorbent development, elution, and conversion of eluate to battery-grade lithium carbonate. You will drive bench to pilot operations and shape the design basis for a commercial-scale unit.

The role requires a PhD and 5+ years in hydrometallurgy or related areas, with hands-on experience in multiple unit operations and scale-up, plus experience mentoring staff and