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Join Rivan Industries to lead the design and manufacture of next-gen sub-systems in synthetic fuels, driving decarbonisation in heavy industry.
Overview
Salary
£100000 - £120000
Location
Bermondsey, South-East London
Expires
Organisation summary Rivan Industries is building modular synthetic fuel plants to decarbonise heavy industry. Here's our whitepaper on how we're going to do it: https://rivan.com/the-case-for-synthetic-fuels/
Role Summary
- Ownership of design and manufacture of a Rivan sub-system across reactor, electrolyser and DAC modules.
- Designing components like electrolyser stacks, welding drawings for reactors, and sheet metal parts for carbonation beds.
- Concept generation, architecting, and technical requirement capture.
- Design and iterate test-rigs for quick and cheap hypothesis validation.
- Assembly, integration, commissioning, and test planning.
- Liaise with external vendors for production support.
Role Requirements
- 7+ years professional experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in mechanical/aero or related field.
- System design experience including CAD (SolidWorks), design for manufacture/assembly, and part specification and procurement.
- Hands-on workshop fabrication and build experience.
- Fundamental thermofluids understanding, including pressure loss, heat and mass transfer.
- Simulation/analytical modelling competency (e.g. python, FEA, CFD).
- Test setup design, running experiments, and data analysis.
Rivan Industries is a synthetic fuel company decarbonising heavy industry. We’re making synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels, sustaining life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. Engineering at Rivan is about taking technologies that are conventionally treated as low volume, bespoke, and expensive, and rethinking them completely to be mass manufactured, standardised, and ultra low cost. Every design aspect must be re-reasoned from first principles, every part’s existence questioned, and every manufacturing step scrutinised. We’re looking for a talented Principal Mechanical Engineer to own one of our sub-systems to drive that forward, tasked with uncovering new ways of thinking about our system integration, performance, longevity, and manufacturability. If you thrive on a lot of responsibility and tight deadlines, come and build! The role: Own the design and manufacture of an entire Rivan sub-system. This role can be across any of our modules, be it reactor, electrolyser and DAC. You could be designing our next electrolyser stack, creating welding drawings for our next in-house built reactor, or designing sheet metal parts for our carbonation bed. Own the concept generation, architecting and technical requirements capture. Design test-rigs to validate underlying hypothesis quickly and cheaply. Own and iterate the design drawings with our fabrication workshop. Own the assembly, integration, commissioning and test plans of that sub-system. Liaise with external vendors to support our production line. Core skills: 7+ years professional experience. Bachelor’s or Masters in mechanical/aero or related field. System design experience including CAD (SolidWorks), design for manufacture/assembly, and part specification and procurement. Hands on workshop fabrication and build experience. Fundamental thermofluids understanding, including pressure loss, heat and mass transfer. Simulation/analytical modelling competency (e.g. python, FEA, CFD). Test setup design, running of experiments, and data analysis.
