<h2 style="">About the role </h2>Join MZT at a pivotal moment as we transition from an early-stage R&amp;D startup to a revenue-generating company ready to scale our direct-air capture technology globally. MZT is offering a role, on a minimum 6-month contract basis, for a Plant Operator &amp; Technician with skills in machinery maintenance and equipment reliability improvement programmes, ideally with experience in repair and servicing of absorption, scrubbing, gas-liquid separation systems, and/or electrodialytic processes. In this role you will operate and service our first technology deployments at industrial scale. Inheriting MZT product modules designed and built by our delivery team, you will assist in executing our pilot plant experimental plans, paying particular attention to breakdowns and problem solving, learning the key reliability weak points of our technology in extended operation. The role is a site-based role in our Norfolk premises with some time at our labs and offices in East London and required travel to our customer sites across the UK and abroad. This will require you to show safe and effective operational and maintenance standards while working in rotational shifts with existing MZT science &amp; engineering staff members.Reporting to the Plant Operations Manager, key partners will include electromechanical, control and process engineers. You will also collaborate closely with the R&amp;D team around specific product development. <h2 style="">What you’ll be doing</h2><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Execute all on-site activities with a focus on safety. following and demonstrating our at-site Health &amp; Safety culture.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Issue and control permits to work when the interventions require it</li></ul><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Perform preventative maintenance and necessary repair tasks on the on-site equipment.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Provide oversight and support to contractors working within the facilities.</li></ul><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Operating and servicing MZT plant at our first industrial Pilot Plant, Norfolk - the UK’s first ever deployment of carbon negative DAC technology. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Give support during commissioning and operation of new plants to ensure that best practices are replicated and target efficiencies are achieved.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Service customer plants for routinary preventative maintenance and overhauls.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Conducting safe start-up for our MZT DAC modules.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Assisting with execution of the pilot plant experimental plan in liaison with our Plant Operations Manager.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Reporting back on unit performances, especially regular failure modes and input ideas  for preventive actions to improve the quality of the product and the reliability of the installation.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Troubleshooting issues that arise, with good record keeping for required interventions to be passed back to the product improvement team.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Get involved in failure analysis, using multiple methodologies to find root causes and propose improvement plans</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Deputising for the Plant Operations Manager in inducting site visitors and contractors if needed.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Execute other related duties necessary for the safe and continuous operation of the facility</li></ul> <h2 style="">What you’ll need to be successful in this role</h2><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Interest in developing skills in an exciting start-up, new technology environment, where you can rapidly grow your experience.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience in operations and maintenance especially commissioning, start-up and maintenance of a variety of process plants.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience operating and repairing plants in challenging environments.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">A passion for optimising technical solutions.Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, Maintenance / OEE. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Relevant control &amp; instrumentation qualification </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Functional understanding of chemical, electrical, mechanical portions of various unit operations such as gas-liquid contacting, water treatment, membrane processes.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Clear communication skills.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">≥1 year experience in the chemical / processing / food / aggregate or similar industry.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience of working with PLC's and SCADA systems, and fault finding.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience maintaining, calibrating and commissioning process instrumentation.</li></ul> <h2 style="">Ideally, you’ll also have:</h2><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience running and repairing Research &amp; Development pilot facilities.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Suitable safety accreditation e.g. NEBOSH.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Lean operational certificate, e.g. six sigma or equivalent.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Continuous improvement training / programme experience.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience across several processing industries.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">≥5 years experience.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience working with absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems and/or electrodialysis.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Good understanding of hazard and risk identification </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Basic understanding of electrochemistry and industrial chemistry knowledge.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Familiarity with servicing of processes handling industrial gases, especially CO2.</li></ul> <h2 style="">What can we offer you?</h2> 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. <h2 style="">Our hiring process</h2>Kindly allow us up to a week to review your application. Providing both of our schedules align, the total hiring process should take 3-4 weeks total to wrap up.  <ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Application review</li></ul><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">HR screening interview (10 minutes)</li></ul><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Interview with Plant Operations Manager and Functional Lead</li></ul><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Short case assignment &amp; F2F site visit to Norfolk (2 hours max.)</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Final interview (online)</li></ul>

MZT is an early-stage start-up pioneering a breakthrough Direct Air carbon Capture (DAC) technology that can scrub CO2 from the air using a fraction of the energy compared to incumbent technologies and can be deployed anywhere with a power supply. In the past two and a half years, MZT has evolved its technology from concept to pilot plant scale, successfully raising over &pound;8m from a mixture of private and government funding. MZT&rsquo;s technology is a hybrid of approaches, combining efficient solution-phase capture of CO2 with a continuous and compact electrochemical separation technology.&nbsp;
Mission Zero and its work is guided by its principles of bold curiosity, problem solving acumen and hope for the future. We strive to realise a world where humanity has new tools to fight climate change, remove CO2&nbsp;permanently from the atmosphere and produce everyday products such as concrete blocks or fuels from atmospheric carbon emissions. To do this we need to realise a decentralised Gt supply chain for CO2&nbsp;sourced directly from the atmosphere.

Plant Operator & Technician (C&I Background)

<h2>About the role </h2>Join MZT at a pivotal moment as we transition from an early-stage R&amp;D startup to a revenue-generating company ready to scale our direct-air capture technology globally. MZT is offering a role, on a minimum 6-month contract basis, for a Plant Operator &amp; Technician with skills in machinery maintenance and equipment reliability improvement programmes, ideally with experience in repair and servicing of absorption, scrubbing, gas-liquid separation systems, and/or electrodialytic processes. In this role you will operate and service our first technology deployments at industrial scale. Inheriting MZT product modules designed and built by our delivery team, you will assist in executing our pilot plant experimental plans, paying particular attention to breakdowns and problem solving, learning the key reliability weak points of our technology in extended operation. The role is a site-based role in our Norfolk premises with some time at our labs and offices in East London and required travel to our customer sites across the UK and abroad. This will require you to show safe and effective operational and maintenance standards while working in rotational shifts with existing MZT science &amp; engineering staff members.Reporting to the Plant Operations Manager, key partners will include electromechanical, control and process engineers. You will also collaborate closely with the R&amp;D team around specific product development. <h2>What you’ll be doing</h2><ul><li>Execute all on-site activities with a focus on safety. following and demonstrating our at-site Health &amp; Safety culture.</li><li>Issue and control permits to work when the interventions require it</li></ul><ul><li>Perform preventative maintenance and necessary repair tasks on the on-site equipment.</li><li>Provide oversight and support to contractors working within the facilities.</li></ul><ul><li>Operating and servicing MZT plant at our first industrial Pilot Plant, Norfolk - the UK’s first ever deployment of carbon negative DAC technology. </li><li>Give support during commissioning and operation of new plants to ensure that best practices are replicated and target efficiencies are achieved.</li><li>Service customer plants for routinary preventative maintenance and overhauls.</li><li>Conducting safe start-up for our MZT DAC modules.</li><li>Assisting with execution of the pilot plant experimental plan in liaison with our Plant Operations Manager.</li><li>Reporting back on unit performances, especially regular failure modes and input ideas  for preventive actions to improve the quality of the product and the reliability of the installation.</li><li>Troubleshooting issues that arise, with good record keeping for required interventions to be passed back to the product improvement team.</li><li>Get involved in failure analysis, using multiple methodologies to find root causes and propose improvement plans</li><li>Deputising for the Plant Operations Manager in inducting site visitors and contractors if needed.</li><li>Execute other related duties necessary for the safe and continuous operation of the facility</li></ul> <h2>What you’ll need to be successful in this role</h2><ul><li>Interest in developing skills in an exciting start-up, new technology environment, where you can rapidly grow your experience.</li><li>Experience in operations and maintenance especially commissioning, start-up and maintenance of a variety of process plants.</li><li>Experience operating and repairing plants in challenging environments.</li><li>A passion for optimising technical solutions.Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, Maintenance / OEE. </li><li>Relevant control &amp; instrumentation qualification </li><li>Functional understanding of chemical, electrical, mechanical portions of various unit operations such as gas-liquid contacting, water treatment, membrane processes.</li><li>Clear communication skills.</li><li>≥1 year experience in the chemical / processing / food / aggregate or similar industry.</li><li>Experience of working with PLC's and SCADA systems, and fault finding.</li><li>Experience maintaining, calibrating and commissioning process instrumentation.</li></ul> <h2>Ideally, you’ll also have:</h2><ul><li>Experience running and repairing Research &amp; Development pilot facilities.</li><li>Suitable safety accreditation e.g. NEBOSH.</li><li>Lean operational certificate, e.g. six sigma or equivalent.</li><li>Continuous improvement training / programme experience.</li><li>Experience across several processing industries.</li><li>≥5 years experience.</li><li>Experience working with absorption, scrubbing, continuous gas-liquid systems and/or electrodialysis.</li><li>Good understanding of hazard and risk identification </li><li>Basic understanding of electrochemistry and industrial chemistry knowledge.</li><li>Familiarity with servicing of processes handling industrial gases, especially CO2.</li></ul> <h2>What can we offer you?</h2> 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. <h2>Our hiring process</h2>Kindly allow us up to a week to review your application. Providing both of our schedules align, the total hiring process should take 3-4 weeks total to wrap up.  <ul><li>Application review</li></ul><ul><li>HR screening interview (10 minutes)</li></ul><ul><li>Interview with Plant Operations Manager and Functional Lead</li></ul><ul><li>Short case assignment &amp; F2F site visit to Norfolk (2 hours max.)</li><li>Final interview (online)</li></ul>

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