Chemical Reaction Engineer

Chemical Reaction Engineer at DUDE CHEM

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DUDE CHEM is a Green Chemistry startup with its origins in the German Cluster of Excellence in Catalysis at the University of Technology Berlin. We are a small but mighty team dedicated to fulfilling our mission: based on the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, we aim to build a green chemical‑pharmaceutical industry. The industry currently consumes >13% of all fossil resources, most of them during manufacturing. Our aim is to change this. We have built a strong IP portfolio and validated the tech onto the market to reduce or reuse expensive resources in the production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. We believe that digitalization can be an integral tool for the implementation of greener, more sustainable production processes, and we combine both scientific disciplines—digitalization and sustainability—in all our projects. Over the last years, our team has proven that our approaches work and created hard competitive advantages in the core of the value chain of our customers.

Why we need you

We are expanding our development team to bring our first greener manufactured products into the plants. Many customers are approaching us for support to produce in a more sustainable and controlled way. We need you to bring greener processes into manufacturing as part of our Chemistry & Engineering Team.

If you want to bring innovative green chemical manufacturing processes from the lab scale into the plant scale and have a real positive impact on the world, you are the perfect match for us!

Tasks you will be working on

• Further develop the reactions of our greener processes in collaboration with our chemists.
• Work together with our chemists to determine the detailed reaction networks, and pathways of the reactions.
• Build up and dimensionally scale down the experimental equipment needed for conducting the kinetic studies.
• Design, plan, set up, execute and evaluate experimental kinetic studies of different reactions to provide safe, efficient, robust and scalable processes.
• Determine the reaction kinetics and use them to model the chemical reaction and reactor.
• Predict and determine experimentally needed physical and chemical properties.
• Coordinate the experimental work with our chemists and lab technicians.
• Perform parameter estimation based on experimental data and validate the developed models.
• Use the developed models for the scale up of the processes from lab scale to plant scale.
• Define optimization problems, implement them and use the developed models to find the optimal operating conditions for the plant scale.

Requirements

• Degree (M.Sc., Dipl.-Ing or PhD) in chemical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Knowledge in reaction engineering, especially reaction kinetics, reactor design, multi‑phase reaction systems and thermodynamics.
• Experience in working in interdisciplinary teams, leading discussions with chemists and pushing for the joint solution on complex problems.
• Experience in planning, execution and evaluation of reaction kinetic experiments in the lab or kilo lab.
• Experience in scaling up reactions from the lab to the plant scale using state‑of‑the‑art modeling approaches.
• Experience in computational solving of complex Differential‑Algebraic‑Equation (DAE) Systems using sophisticated model parameter estimation approaches.
• Experience in Python or a similar programming language like MATLAB.
• Experience using modeling and simulation tools such as AspenPlus, gProms, DynoChem, or IDAES.
• Experience with optimization tools such as Pyomo, GAMS or AMPL.
• Good organizational and project as well as time management skills.
• Highly self‑driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in the role.
• Excellent written and oral communication, as well as presentation skills. Being fluent in English is a must, in German a plus.

Benefits

• We provide every team member with a veto right on projects, e.g. if you don’t want to work for a specific customer due to moral reasons.
• Unlimited work contract and flexible working hours (results orientation), with the options to work from home at least one day per week.
• We are consequently state‑of‑the‑art driven and we promise that we will always listen to your ideas. Our dynamic and flat hierarchies enable us to flexibly adapt our organizational structure to the level of expertise required in a project. Sometimes you will learn and sometimes you will have the lead in a project.
• Stock options from our employee stock option pool.
• 28 days holiday per year, as well as an entirely paid for annual ticket for the public transport ("Deutschlandticket").
• We provide you with organic fruits, snacks, coffee & tea and non‑alcoholic drinks in our offices and labs in Berlin.
• We support professional coaching and job‑relevant trainings to support your development.
• Frequent company socials to have some fun.
• DUDE CHEM strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We encourage job applications from people of all genders, backgrounds, and communities.

Seniorities & Job Details

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Send your CV, cover letter, and exp, and anything else which you consider relevant for us to our team. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you!

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