Senior Process Engineer – PET Upcycling Technolog
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Educational Background: Master’s, PDEng, or Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
Professional Experience: 5–10+ years experience in catalytical process development and industrial scale-up within the chemical or process industry.
Primary Location: Eindhoven (occasional travel to Pilot site in Rotterdam).
Key Competencies
- Proactive & self-driven: takes ownership and initiates action without needing direction.
- Accountable: committed to responsibilities across task, team, and organization levels.
- Organized & communicative: strong planning, structured execution, and transparent communication.
- Collaborative leader: builds consensus, aligns stakeholders, and supports team objectives.
- Creative problem Solver: thinks beyond the conventional to generate innovative solutions.
- Adaptive: navigates ambiguity; sees rules as a framework rather than constraints.
- Ambitious & optimistic: positive mindset with a relentless drive to improve and deliver.
- Results-oriented: focused on execution and achieving measurable outcomes.
- Strategic focus: maintains a clear line of sight on long-term goals and project deliverables.
- Ownership mentality: operates with a sense of pride and responsibility for outcomes.
Growth Opportunity
Join a purpose-driven company committed to a future where all plastics can be infinitely recycled. As a Senior Process Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in scaling up and commercializing Ioniqa’s patented Denua® PET upcycling process worldwide. This is an exceptional next step for engineers aiming to work at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and global impact. You’ll be immersed in a high-energy, research-driven environment, and supporting both technological advancement and market deployment.
Role scope
As a member of the core Engineering team, you will be instrumental in finalizing the process design for global license packages based on Ioniqa’s commercial PET upcycling technology. Leveraging your experience, your role ensures the right technical decisions are made for scaling up the process efficiently and effectively, with a direct impact on international customer implementations. You’ll contribute to defining, developing, and delivering comprehensive license packages, including technology transfer, engineering documentation, and customer engagement, while supporting innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Scale-up of current PET upcycling process (including Plastic feedstock adaptation).
- Define process and equipment design specifications for unit operations.
- Collect, analyze, and translate operational data to inform future plant designs.
- Define operating windows for key equipment and document core process know-how.
- Evaluate current and emerging technologies for process enhancement.
- Conduct process synthesis, flowsheet design, and chemical process modeling.
- Develop and refine comprehensive license packages for external partners.
- Translate customer-specific requirements into tailored licensing solutions.
- Provide technical support during customer onboarding and implementation phases.
Required Expertise
- Deep understanding of chemical process development and industrial scale-up.
- Proven track record in flowsheet development and validation.
- Strong experience with AspenTech modeling tools (e.g., Aspen Plus/HYSYS).
- Previous involvement in the development and deployment of technology license packages.
About Ioniqa
Ioniqa is a pioneering clean-tech company unlocking value from plastic waste and turning plastic waste into a force for good. Leveraging its proprietary Denua® technology this cost-efficient and scalable process enables true closed-loop recycling – starting with PET plastics. Our award-winning innovation transforms various types and colors of PET waste into high-quality, food-grade recycled PET, equivalent to virgin material. With a solid track record in PET upcycling and years of R&D and operational know-how, Ioniqa will be licensing its Denua® technology to the market and will be expanding its platform in the near future to enable recycling of other plastic streams.
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