Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We’ve developed a unique power-to-fuel machine built for low-capex deployment powered entirely by utility-scale solar. We already have individual operating modules of our machine, we’re funded, and we’re now building out the team to bring the vision together and deploy at scale. Here's our manifesto on what and how we plan build Rivan:
We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. We’re looking for a Junior Mech Eng to help oversee the operation of our pilot site, and help optimise our in-house R&D processes. This can be anything from supervising reactor testing running on-site to helping set-up experiments in hour. If you want to work on a high-impact technology that you’ll see the impact of in the world surrounded by smart people working with a sense of urgency and intensity – this is for you.
The role:
- Pilot Site operation (Swindon)
- Help organise pilot site – equipment, operations, testing
- Maintenance and build logs of pilot site
- Help commissioning of plant
- In-house R&D
- Organise and clean work area’s
- Set-up experiments and testing
- Run equipment safely (Cutting, Drilling, joining)
Core skills:
- 1+ year professional experience
- Engineering background (have you built projects for yourself?)
- Great communication and analytical skills
The things that are important to us for this role:
- Execution history . What have you built or designed before where you had the responsibility?
- Reasoning by first principles . Can you deconvolute complex scenarios into their foundational truths or parts?
- Urgency . We don’t have time to wait, are you comfortable with a high-degree of risk and pressure to move fast?
- Grit . How relentless will you be despite set-backs? We’re going up against some big opposition.
The things we don’t care about very much:
- Where you went to school / education
- Where you have worked previously
Specifics:
- £25-35K Salary depending on experience
- Share options as part of the early team
- In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South-East London
- Flexible time-off
To apply, email why you’re great for this role to harvey@rivan.com. The only thing we’re looking for is execution proof – so any projects you’ve built from the ground up or were responsible for are way more important to us than a CV.
