Plant Operator & Technician (C&I Background)

We’re a London-based climate-tech start-up, working to reframe how the world views carbon in order to enable a thriving planet. Since 2020, we have pioneered the world’s most versatile direct air capture (DAC) technology to recover historic CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere, anywhere, at any scale. Backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the XPRIZE foundation, Stripe, and the UK Government, we’ve moved a brand new climate technology from lab scale to commercial plants in under three years, to empower carbon removal and sustainable utilisation. Join MZT at a pivotal moment as we transition from an early-stage R&D startup to a revenue-generating company ready to scale our direct-air capture technology globally. MZT is offering a role, on a minimum 6-month contract basis, for a Plant Operator & Technician with skills in machinery maintenance and equipment reliability improvement programmes, ideally with experience in repair and servicing of absorption, scrubbing, gas-liquid separation systems, and/or electrodialytic processes. In this role you will operate and service our first technology deployments at industrial scale. Inheriting MZT product modules designed and built by our delivery team, you will assist in executing our pilot plant experimental plans, paying particular attention to breakdowns and problem solving, learning the key reliability weak points of our technology in extended operation. The role is a site-based role in our Norfolk premises with some time at our labs and offices in East London and required travel to our customer sites across the UK and abroad. This will require you to show safe and effective operational and maintenance standards while working in rotational shifts with existing MZT science & engineering staff members. Reporting to the Plant Operations Manager, key partners will include electromechanical, control and process engineers. You will also collaborate closely with the R&D team around specific product development.