Senior PEARL Process Engineer - Remote/On-Site

Aquatech; Canonsburg (Washington County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Aquatech seeks a Senior Applications Engineer to develop and optimize PEARL process designs, owning key technical areas from DLE to crystallization. You will translate IP and lab findings into scalable licensing designs and collaborate with the licensing group to support commercial readiness.

The role involves working with Applied Development, lab teams, and external technology providers, with options for remote or on-site work at Canonsburg, PA, Hartland, WI, or Houston, TX.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemical, process, or water-treatment engineering.
• Experience in industrial water treatment, membrane systems, ion exchange, hydrometallurgy, chemical production or lithium processing.
• Strong process-modeling and mass-balance capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop integrated PEARL process designs and customer-specific flowsheets covering DLE, eluate conditioning, crystallization and product recovery.
• Serve as the primary technical owner for eluate conditioning, including impurity management, chemical adjustment, concentration, water balance.
• Develop expertise and mastery of DLE, conditioning and crystallization process design and provide technical coverage across all PEARL process blocks as required.
• Build and maintain standardized process modules, process-flow diagrams, mass and energy balances, design assumptions, operating envelopes and performance models for PEARL licensing packages.
• Work with Applied Development to incorporate newly generated intellectual property, experimental findings and validated process improvements into PEARL design standards.
• Identify, evaluate and incorporate well-tested third-party technologies that improve process performance, product quality, recovery, water or reagent efficiency, operability or commercial competitiveness.

Skills

MS Excel

MS Word

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's in chemical, process, or water-treatment engineering

Tools

Aspen

Metsim

OLI

Job description

Aquatech seeks a Senior Applications Engineer to develop and optimize PEARL process designs, owning key technical areas from DLE to crystallization. You will translate IP and lab findings into scalable licensing designs and collaborate with the licensing group to support commercial readiness.

The role involves working with Applied Development, lab teams, and external technology providers, with options for remote or on-site work at Canonsburg, PA, Hartland, WI, or Houston, TX.