Would you like to have a hand in repurposing closed mine sites into revenue generating assets? Are you a Swiss army knife engineer with a passion for reversing climate change and restoring degraded lands?

Who we are

Aquarry is a pre-seed stage startup working to convert mine pit lakes into massive carbon sinks. After closure, open pit mines will passively fill with groundwater, creating a pit lake. Water quality is often poor, and without treatment these systems pose a threat to communities and wildlife. More recently-formed pit lakes do get treated in places where environmental laws are enforced, but at a cost and with few beneficial end uses.

We’ll use our patent-pending system to convert each pit lake for capturing CO2 and recovering trace metals in tailings in a way that meets many of the goals of conventional remediation. We accelerate the dissolution of on site tailings piles using pit lake water and mechanical and chemical accelerants, perform passive aeration, and monitor the formation of carbonate minerals. With thousands of sites globally and capacity for up to tens of millions of tons of CO2 each, the potential impact is huge.

What you’ll do

We’re seeking an entrepreneurial, highly motivated engineer to lead our efforts to move from beakers to field trials to a pilot. This cross-disciplinary role has elements of project management and process engineering. You will be responsible for getting our technology ready for deployment: planning and running off site field trials, managing internal and contracted R&D projects, and technical roadmapping for our future pilot in a pit lake and beyond. The role will involve hands-on work in the near term, transitioning to management as we grow.

In this role you’ll work hand in hand with the Founder/CEO and Board of Advisors having a direct impact on the success of the business while making a substantial contribution to the evolution of reclamation.

• Ownership of the technical plan to de-risk our technology and scale into the field, including:
  • Identification of major technical risks and developing strategies to mitigate them
  • Planning and running an off-site pilot project in an excavated and lined pit
  • Guiding and performing engineering and scientific troubleshooting
• Managing external contract R&D
• Ownership of our techno-economic analysis
• Performing hands-on mechanical, chemical, and electrical work as necessary to build system prototypes and run analyses
• Building and mentoring a small technical team comprising geologists, chemists, environmental scientists, and engineers
• Working closely with the CEO to ensure alignment between technical and business directions
• Growing our IP portfolio
• Contributing to external-facing technical documents including white papers and grant proposals

The ideal candidate must have:

• A graduate-level degree in engineering (mechanical, mining, materials, chemical, civil, environmental, process) and 5+ years industry experience

  or

  An undergraduate degree in engineering and 7+ years industry experience

• The proven ability to balance speed, budget, and precision for our stage of technology development. Someone with a strong understanding of "perfect is the enemy of good", the MVP approach