Senior Chemical Engineer 100%

AVA Biochem AG is a young, innovative Swiss technology company active in the field of bio-based chemistry with headquarters in Zug and laboratories and production facilities in Muttenz. To strengthen and support our Engineering team in Zug or Muttenz, we are looking for a reliable, competent and well-organized personality as of June 1st, 2023 or by appointment for Senior Chemical Engineer / Senior Project Engineer 100% Your main duties:

• Identify and develop working relationships with AVA's wider R&D community, production, sales, business development, support functions, third party laboratories, equipment manufacturers, technology providers, contract manufacturers and partners
• Ownership and development of technical drawings, models, process books, calculations, and technical and economical simulations
• Hands-on process development and scale-up including planning, coordinating, designing, conducting, interpreting, extrapolating, simulating and reporting data and results from laboratory scale and pilot scale experiments
• Analyse and interpret data from different process units to optimise process and economic performance for industrial scale-up
• Identify, document and protect new intellectual property
• Support and execute engineering design aspects of the staged industrialisation of process plants; estimation of costs and support on all related strategy work
• Industry screening for upstream- and downstream processes and technologies
• Providing technical support to production team, including troubleshooting, specifying operation parameters and investigating opportunities for process optimization Requirements and skills:
  
• Academic degree in chemical engineering
• At least 4 years of well-rounded industrial work experience, ideally in the development and improvement of new and existing chemical process technologies from lab and pilot scale to industrial plants
• Ability to apply fundamental chemical engineering principles to understand and develop a process at a molecular level
• Experience with and good understanding in process simulation and process modelling, e.g. VBA and Python, including kinetic, separation and economic models
• Self-motivated teamplayer and able to contribute critically and proactively with technical inputs to projects within the organisation
• Project management experience
• Ability to work and deliver systematically, within deadlines and under minimal supervision on assigned tasks
• Ability to interact with industrial partners and their engineering teams
• Ability in a link function to gather, provide and manage technical information in an interdisciplinary environment
• Experience in liquid extraction processes, crystallisation, purification, concentration and screening for alternative technologies and solvents
• Experience in bio-based industries and 2nd generation feedstock preferred
• Analytical mind-set and passionate about ongoing improvement and continuous learning process What we offer:
  
• Varied and exciting work in a dynamic international environment with a promising future
• International Team
  
• Respectful and appreciative corporate culture A varied and exciting job awaits you at AVA Biochem AG in Zug. Interested in this challenge? Then we look forward to receiving your application documents (incl. curriculum vitae, diploma and letter of application) at the following address: jobs@ava-biochem.com Recruitment agencies are not considered. Thank you very much. Ms. von Deichmann will be happy to answer any questions you may have. AVA Biochem AG, Bahnhofstrasse 17, 6300 Zug, phone +41 76 585 09 85, k.deichmann@avabiochem.com

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