Job Description

About Skyven

At Skyven Technologies, we have developed a revolutionary heat pump technology to decarbonize industrial heat and move the needle on climate change. Our technologies have the potential to completely eliminate on-site CO2 emissions from industrial steam. We implement this technology through an innovative Energy-as-a-Service model that provides clean process heat to industrial facilities. We identify, fund, design, build, and install our cutting-edge, decarbonization technologies to help industrial manufacturers reach their sustainability goals, while minimizing their risk and reducing their operational expenses.

Industrial heat is responsible for roughly 20% of global CO2 emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to emissions generated by all transportation (including land, sea, and air) and is a compelling business opportunity – it will take an estimated $3.7 trillion in capital investment to decarbonize the sector by 2050. Skyven is at the forefront of this transformation and has recently been selected for a $145M investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the deployment of our state-of-the-art Skyven Arcturus steam-generating heat pumps (SGHPs) at manufacturing facilities nationwide, revolutionizing how we address energy needs while combating climate change.

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead the finalization of Skyven’s heat product design into a completely detailed product ready for procurement and construction. Skyven’s heat pump challenges the conventions of typical, one-off, large industrial systems. Therefore, we need a mechanical engineering leader who understands the analysis requirements of a traditional EPC stick-built design and the productization methods done by product OEMs and is excited to drive these two sides into a robust product platform. 

Responsibilities

• Create piping systems and support designs, pipe stress analysis, and fluid flow analysis

• Identify, document, and apply relevant national, state, and local codes applicable to product design

• Create internal tools and methodology to enable scalable delivery for the creation of detailed design engineering deliverables and calculations

• Perform all detailed design calculations related to non-electrical systems

• Develop tools to allow engineering calculations to scale with lower manpower over time

• Review component and material selections and drive final selections for the product platform

• Identify gaps in engineering specifications and propose new specifications or refinements to drive system standardization, reliability, and scalability

• Create documentation and standard operating procedures (SOP) for mechanical engineering

• Provide subject matter expert (SME) guidance on mechanical engineering topics, including piping, material science, mechanical components, stress analysis, corrosion, and thermoscience

• Validate conceptual product development designs, identifies issues, and advises augmentation

• Review all technical work created by specification engineers on non-electrical selections for technical accuracy

• Review all technical work and deliverables created by mechanical designers for technical accuracy.

• Perform technical reviews on vendor documents and drawing submittals for accuracy and adherence to Skyven specifications

• Create lifecycle estimates on components and systems using analytical methods

• Sign and seal mechanical engineering drawings created by yourself or under your supervision

• Lead team in creation of formal design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) and mitigations, and hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical or Structural Engineering or a closely related field
• Active Professional Engineering (P.E.) licensure and willingness to sign and seal mechanical engineering drawings
• 10+ years of post-graduate work experience in the detailed design engineering of one of the following; industrial scale systems, large commercial systems, manufacturing plants, process plants, or modular industrial systems
• Experience in high-temperature process water, steam, and lubrication oil
• Experience creating piping systems and support designs, pipe stress analysis, and fluid flow analysis using hand calculations
• Expert knowledge and application ability of engineering standards applicable to the product design which would include ASME, ANSI, API NACE, etc.
• Able to productize the engineering of industrial systems
• Able to create scalable tools and methods for yourself and others for detailed engineering deliverable creation

_ Preferred _

All preferred listed below are intended to be above and beyond items to enable Skyven to build a diverse and broadly skilled team and are in no way intended to be a substitute for any of the requirements listed above.

• M.S. or above in Mechanical or Structural Engineering or a closely related field

• Past experience working as a lead engineer at an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) firm or Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) firm on steam and hot process water projects with construction values in the range $20MM - $50MM+

• Intermediate ability with Solidworks, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Electrical

• Expert in one common, object-oriented, programming language

• Expert in Matlab programming

• Ability to design, sign, and seal the structural engineering for a limited number of steel structures; such as modular electrical houses, ladders and walkways, and pressure vessel elevation structures

Benefits

• Base salary: $140,00 - $175,000
• Stock options
• Flexible PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, vision
• 401k

Location

• Fully remote; we are a remote first organization
• Must live in and be authorized to work in the United States
• Occasional travel up to 10-15% annually beginning in 2025

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