Laboratory Research Engineer
Casale SA
Veröffentlicht:
22 Februar 2024Pensum:
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Lugano
Laboratory Research Engineer
Job description
Casale SA is a leading firm that specializes in the design and implementation of innovative plants to produce green ammonia, ammonia, nitrates, phosphates, urea, methanol, melamine, and syngas.
With a strong commitment to sustainability and cutting-edge technology, we strive to deliver high-quality solutions to our clients globally. In this frame, the company is currently seeking a dynamic Laboratory Research to work with a passionate, detail-oriented, and international team on developing and maintaining our projects.
The position is within the Basic Research and reports to the Section Head.
The activity will be:
- Manage chemical lab to ensure its safe and effective operation
- to interact with R&D for planning the laboratory activities
- Provides technical leadership and instruction to technical staff and/or student employees engaged in the execution of related research
- to set up and lead R&D project on time and on budget to design laboratory experiments for mechanical tests, catalytic and non-catalytic reactions
- Design build, test, install, and/or maintain technical, laboratory equipment and test units (including automation and control systems)
- to perform, understand and develop chemical analyses and to develop new analytical methods and find solutions for performing and monitoring chemical reactions;
- Execute complex mechanical and chemical laboratory experiments (including high pressure and high temperature)
- Maintains currency of knowledge with respect to relevant state-of-the-art digital technologies, equipment, machinery and/or systems.
- Develop quality standards, protocols and programs; monitors and maintains quality of laboratory including safety.
- Maintains supplies and equipment inventories; specifies orders for supplies and equipment for the laboratory
- To solve electronical and mechanical issues in the laboratory
- data analysis of the results obtained from the laboratory tests
- digitalize work conducted in the lab and data analysis
- to write reports to be distributed to the R&D
- Involvement with/management of/ external research collaborations e.g. partner companies, academic institutions and research centers
Job Requirements:
The successful candidate will have:
- Education: M.Sc. or PhD in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry or Mechanical Engineering
- Experience in managing lab team or R&D team that includes for instance workload planning, technical support, troubleshooting, delegation of tasks
- Resilience to working under high workload
- Communication skills and methodologies of sufficient communication with project stakeholders and members of R&D team
- Being able to accommodate workload with high degree of flexibility
- Experience in leading and executing R&D project or basic but practical skills of project management
- Good work experience in a similar position and good competence in conducting laboratory research projects in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and/or multiphase non catalytic reactions at high pressure
- Open and positive mind, eager to find new solutions and test innovations
- Good ability to keep updated with laboratory technologies
- Strong organizing skills and self-motivated and not being afraid of failure
- Ability to interpret the requirements and propose and develop innovative solutions
- Very fluent written and spoken English knowledge
- An advantage is a good know how in labview, matlab, phyton and/or 3D technical cad
Casale offers unlimited contract and challenging work in a dynamic environment.