Senior Process Safety Engineer

Overview

Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground.

We design and manufacture modular synthetic fuel plants consisting of a DAC system, an Alkaline Electrolyser, and a Sabatier Reactor, whilst vertically integrating with off-grid DC solar and the European gas-grid. Here’s our entire business plan. We’ve recently deployed the UK’s largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next 2 years.

Do you want to work on the end-to-end design of one the most innovative process systems on Earth, where you deploy 1 system a week, not 1 system a decade like most incumbents?

There is no boilerplate engineering in this system, only the most innovative, problem solving engineers can thrive on this problem. We practice our culture, working in small teams, expecting complete ownership and ground up reasoning from our engineers, whilst executing at speed.

We operate with minimal process and bureaucracy, only what is essential to ensure our systems are safe, legally compliant, and deployed on time, everything else is up to you.

The role encompasses the full development cycle, but can be tailored to the specialist skillset of the applicant:

Responsibilities

System architecture selection and process modelling (FEED)

• Full system scope, including the methanation reactor, electrolyser balance-of-plant, DAC system, inter-unit gas handling and gas grid injection.
• Ideating novel architectures and system integrations with the Rivan mindset
• Intelligent, inherently safety design architectures
• Bench scale testing and data analysis to feed into concept derisking
• System wide process optimisation
• Aspen modelling of reaction kinetics
• PDFs and P&IDs
• Defining control strategies
• Component specification and procurement

Process Safety

• Responsible for system wide process safety

Defining and executing build, deployment, commissioning and startup across:

• Factory assembly and acceptance testing
• Site installation and operation

Data analysis and optimisation

• Operational data analysis and process optimisation
• Reviewing unit performance vs targets to feed into the next design iteration

Qualifications

Essential skills:

• 5+ years professional experience.
• Bachelor’s or Masters in chemical engineering or related field.
• Experience designing and building deployed hardware.

Additional skills:

• Process plant design, commissioning and operation experience
• HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA leadership experience
• CAD experience
• Chartered Engineering Status

Specifics:

• £70-100k Salary depending on experience
• Significant share options as part of the early team
• In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South London – flexibility considered based on personal circumstances
• Extensive relocation support, including £6000 per year extra to live close to our HQ
• Unlimited time-off

Application note

We encourage exceptional applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role, even if they do not meet all the requirements listed.

If you don’t see a current role that fits, we also welcome open applications via our website.