Electrical, Controls & Instrumentation Discipline Manager

Looking to use your powers for good? Join Mission Zero Technologies (MZT) to help fight the climate crisis on the molecular frontline.

About Mission Zero Technologies

We’re a London-based climate tech startup working to reinvent carbon for a thriving planet. Since 2020, we have rapidly 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 to commercial plants in under three years to rapidly empower carbon removal and sustainable utilisation.

About The Role
You have the opportunity to join MZT at a pivotal point in our company's history - our transition from an early-stage R&D startup into a product offering, revenue-generating company poised to rapidly scale our DAC technology across the world.

Our vision for our early stage employees is that they own the business with us (literally), grow it with us and become part of the collective story of Mission Zero, taking a catalytic role in its early history and the fight against climate change.

We’re hiring for a Controls & Instrumentation Discipline Manager who is skilled in designing and delivering electrical & controls infrastructure for chemical and/or manufacturing facilities. In this role, you’ll take ownership for the EC&I discipline in Mission Zero; guiding, coaching and leading engineers with a range of skills and preferences. You will harmonise the approach to EC&I across engineers, set standards and expectations for delivering EC&I work, and contribute to deliverables and site work directly as a member of our growing Engineering team.

As a key member of the Engineering team, you’ll be central to the development and deployment of our next generation technology. You will guide this development, bringing a particular focus on control, translating learnings from our three operating first generation sites, into new design from 1,000 teCO2/year up to 100,000 teCO2/year by 2030 and beyond. This will involve collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders.

While the role is based at our headquarters in East-Central London, expect periodic assignments at emerging UK sites, European suppliers, and international locations as we expand.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design Development: Create, guide, and review safe electrical, control, & instrumentation designs, both internally and with external contractors across MZT projects from 1,000 te/year modularised deployments to 100,000 te/year scale-up projects and beyond.
• Specification & Review: with delegation where appropriate of all required electrical, control, instrumentation and relevant interdisciplinary design deliverables. This will include but not be limited to: reports, datasheets, calculations, engineering drawing, specifications, interlock matrices, cause & effect diagrams.
• Mentoring & Developing: of engineers who have an interest or background in EC&I, even if not direct reports.
• EC&I Expertise: Expert understanding of EC&I scopes of work including FDS, control panel specification, software programming interfaces, proven record interfacing, practising or leading EC&I engineering.
  Optimise: You will develop optimal concepts for cost-effective improvements through identification of key controlled variables and focus on key parameter output. 
• Scale-Up: You will be leading and working with key members across the company to design, procure and evaluate new approaches to EC&I, scaling-up the design approach to be suitable for larger, more cost efficient and more power efficient installations.
• Vendor Interfacing: Collaborate with key external vendors on EC&I scopes, particularly PLC/HMI/SCADA/DCS vendors, as well as fabricators and site hosts.
• Project Support: Assist the project management team in the technical delivery of detailed plant designs and analyses for pilot and commercial systems, focusing on all EC&I interfaces.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful In This Role

• Masters of Engineering Degree or equivalent in suitable discipline
• 10 years’ minimum industrial experience delivering  projects with significant EC&I content across several applications.
• Experience leading teams or projects.
• Experience and understanding of the full electrical & control system development cycle (Conceptualisation, design, delivery/commissioning and maintenance), 
• Ability and flexibility to use a spectrum of commercially available control system platforms.
• A passion for developing technical solutions for the world's greatest challenges.
• Evidenced strong practical skills, comfortable with both hands-on work and desk-based tasks. 
• Comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Ability to design and critically evaluate e.g. P&IDs, SLDs, Control Function Block Diagrams, during design and in live plant settings.
• Demonstrated understanding of hazard and risk identification especially from control & electrical rating perspective and considering e.g. PUWER, Machinery Directive, CE / UKCA marking.
• Experience in HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA & FMEA.
• Breadth of exposure to industrial unit operations extending to MV electrical installations and transformer packages.
• You’re not just a starter, you are also a finisher and will be able to see the journey of the EC&I scopes all the way through from ideation to implementation.
• Familiarity with industry standards, regulations, and best practices relevant to the field of design and engineering.

Ideally You'll Also Have

• Electrical, Control or Instrumentation inter-discipline specialism in undergraduate / postgraduate studies.
• >15 years experience in relevant industries.
• Chartered engineering status with IEEE, IET, InstMC or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience working with electrodialysis / electrolytic processes and/or absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems, compression, liquefaction.
• Experience designing, running and supporting research scale, pilots and/or commercial plants.
• Experience with engineering supply chain management.
• Basic understanding of fundamental electrochemistry principles and background industrial chemistry knowledge.
• Familiarity with processes handling CO2.
• Formal training  / qualifications in e.g. machine safety / CMSE.

What Can We Offer You?

• 30 days of Annual Leave
• 3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave
• £500 annual Learning & Development Grant
• Unlimited mental health support
• Employee Share Options Scheme
• Christmas Holidays office closure
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
• A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity

At Mission Zero, we value diversity of cultural backgrounds, experience, and perspectives, and leverage these qualities to create exceptional outcomes. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, sex, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation.

Our Hiring Process
Kindly allow us up to 2 weeks to review your application. Providing both of our schedules align, the total hiring process should take 4-6 weeks total to wrap up.

• Application Review
• Intro Interview
• Getting To Know You - (Partner Assessment)
• Case Study & Interview
• Founder Meet & Greet

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