Senior Manager Sorbent Structures (80-100%)

• Your mission at Climeworks is to ensure Climeworks' competitive advantage by identifying and delivering best-in-class technology solutions for structured supports with sorbents together with your team to meet performance and cost reduction goals.
• You hire, build, lead and foster collaboration and employee development of a highly qualified team of scientists and engineers.
• You ensure the structured sorbents’ performance, quality, reliability, manufacturability, the integration into Climeworks collector containers, and the corresponding IP.
• You collaborate with sorbent material developers, ensuring that requirements imposed by the sorbent materials on structuring methods are considered early, and exploring packaging options for new sorbent materials.
• You oversee development, maturation, and scale-up of structured sorbents for mass manufacturing.
• You assess mechanical integrity, reliability, performance and quality under DAC conditions.
• You ensure industrialization and supply chain efficiency while adhering to performance and cost targets.
• You define and enforce technical standards, maintaining tools and methods in your field.
• You guide external suppliers to enhance operational performance and component longevity.

• Advanced degree in engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics or similar.
• 7+ years of combined academic and industrial experience in catalyst support design and manufacturing, or sorbent structuring, manufacturing, and overall quality assessment, or R&D.
• Minimum 3 years in a leadership position (direct reports)
• Strong knowledge of adsorption, and heat & mass transfer with applied knowledge of fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics a plus.
• You bring a proven track record to lead and successfully conclude system and component development initiatives.

What we offer: A horizontal organization, a great team, an improvement-oriented approach, and a scale-up venture with an innovative technology. Sounds like you? We are looking forward meeting you! Apply now by filling in the online application form and uploading your complete dossier to our careers portal: https://www.climeworks.com/careers

Our promise:
At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are.
As part of our ongoing journey towards creating a diverse and inclusive environment - we encourage everyone to apply! All qualified applicants are considered for positions, so bring along your knowledge, personal experiences, and fresh perspectives, and together we can solve one of humankind’s greatest challenges. We look forward to getting to know you!

Disclaimer: The percentage in the job title means that for this vacancy, you can decide if you want to be employed on a full-time or part-time basis, depending on what works best for your needs.

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