Lead Facility Development Engineer

Position Summary

• Position: Facility Development Engineer

• Project: Ritchot Biochar Demonstration Facility

• Location: Saint Adolphe, Manitoba

• Type: Full Time, Permanent

• Benefits: Health and Dental Plan

• Pay: Commensurate with experience, negotiable, performance-based increases

Position Overview

Carbon Lock Tech is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the development of a first-of-a-kind organic waste-to-biochar facility in Saint Adolphe, Manitoba. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys building things from the ground up. You will be responsible for transforming a project concept into an operational demonstration facility by coordinating site development, permitting, utilities, equipment procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and ongoing operations.

This position will work closely with Carbon Lock Tech's executive, research and technology development teams, as well as contractors, equipment suppliers, regulators, utility providers, and landfill operators to ensure the successful delivery of the facility.

This is not a traditional office-based or project-management type engineering position. Significant time will be spent on-site managing contractors, solving problems, installing equipment, commissioning systems and establishing and ensuring reliable operations.

If you're as comfortable with a wrench in your hand as you are with a mouse, this might be the position for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, construction, commissioning, and startup of Carbon Lock Tech's demonstration-scale biochar facility at the Mid Canada Landfill.

• Coordinate site preparation, infrastructure, utilities, permitting, environmental approvals, and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Build and maintain productive relationships with regulators, municipalities, utilities, landfill operators, contractors, vendors, consultants, and EPC partners.

• Procure, install, and integrate feedstock pre-processing, material handling, pyrolysis, storage, and shipping systems.

• Serve as the primary on-site engineering lead, resolving technical, construction, commissioning, and operational challenges.

• Establish safe and reliable facility operations through startup, performance testing, process optimization, and operational readiness activities.

• Generate operational and performance data to support technology validation, continuous improvement, and future commercial deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, Agricultural, Environmental, Industrial or a related engineering discipline (required)

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Canada or eligibility to obtain registration (required)

• Minimum 5 years of experience developing, constructing, commissioning, operating, or maintaining industrial facilities or process systems (required)

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve and innovation, initiative, resourcefulness and sense of real ownership are expected (important)

• Strong understanding of industrial equipment, utilities, construction practices, and facility development

• Willingness to spend substantial “hands on” time at project site during construction, commissioning, and startup activities

• Demonstrated ability to manage contractors, vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in dynamic field environments

• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver results with limited direction

We are not looking for someone to operate a large, existing facility. We are looking for someone to help set up a demonstration site.

Asset Qualifications

• Experience in waste management, biomass processing, energy systems, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, or related industrial sectors

• Experience working with municipalities, regulators, utilities, landfill operators, or environmental permitting processes

• Experience with first-of-a-kind, pilot, demonstration, scale-up, or commercialization projects

• Experience commissioning agricultural and/or industrial process equipment and familiarity with material handling, thermal processing, pyrolysis, or similar systems

What Does Success Look Like?

Within the first phase of the project, you will have:

• Obtained required permits and utility connections

• Coordinated construction of the demonstration facility

• Installed and integrated feedstock pre-processing and pyrolysis systems

• Successfully commissioned and started facility operations

• Established safe and repeatable operating procedures

• Generated operational data to support future commercial deployments

What’s it Like Working at Carbon Lock Tech?

Carbon Lock Tech is developing patented pyrolytic reactor technologies that convert biomass and organic waste into stable biocarbon outputs. We operate in one of the newest and most exciting areas of climate technology, where the technical, commercial, and environmental opportunities are significant. We are not a large corporation with extensive support departments, rigid reporting structures, or narrowly defined job descriptions. This is not an environment where every process already exists or every answer can be found in a manual. Instead, we are a small, nimble and innovative team of engineers, scientists, and business professionals building a first-of-a-kind biocarbon production facility in Manitoba. We move quickly, solve difficult problems, and rely on practical, hands-on approaches while taking ownership and making things happen. There is no blueprint for what we're building. Our success depends on initiative, innovativeness and a passion for making things happen.

Sound interesting? Please apply here.