Overview:
Seeking highly motivated chemist to perform HPLC and GC method development, validation and testing methodologies. Must be able to perform lipid, Fatty acids, FAME analysis and carbohydrates characterization. The successful applicant may also conduct instrument calibration and preparation of standards. Requires outstanding writing, documentation and organizational skills. A minimum 2 years HPLC and GC validation experience preferred.. Minimum of B.S. Chemistry or other related field is required

Reports To: Lab Director
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: Melbourne, Florida

Primary Responsibilities

• Laboratory analysis of bio-organic compounds
• Conceptual design of chemical processes
• Generation of, interpretation, and analysis of test results
• Report generation and presentation
• Design and analysis in field facilities
• Working with outside vendors and contractors
• Validation and testing methodologies.
• Must be able to perform lipid, Fatty acids, FAME analysis and carbohydrates characterization
• Conduct instrument calibration and preparation of standards

Desired Qualifications

• Capability to operate scientific equipment
• Strong knowledge of chemical process engineering and process flow design
• Familiarity with algae
• Sterile culture techniques
• Ability to perform as part of process design team
• Supervisory skills
• Ability to interact with academic institution
• Requires outstanding writing, documentation and organizational skills.
• Minimum 2 years HPLC and GC validation experience preferred.
• Minimum of B.S. Chemistry or other related field is required

Overview:
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Engineering Assistant will assist mechanical and process engineers to design, build, test, and improve prototype electromechanical components and systems for our R&D and pilot production facility. These prototype components may be assembled from off-the-shelf parts or may need to be custom designed and hand-built. Designs must be operable in aquaculture environment (water/algae).

Reports To: Director of Engineering
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: Fellsmere, Florida

Primary Responsibilities

• Quickly read and understand prototype designs, plans, drawings, and sketches prepared by mechanical and process engineers
• Quickly build prototype components and process system interfaces to meet design specifications
• Work with outside contractors/vendors (i.e. machine shops) to insure timely delivery of products and services
• Assist science and engineering personnel to operate the resulting prototype components and systems, and to evaluate their performance and production suitability
• Execute experimental protocols, including data collection, collation, and interpretation

Desired Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in engineering or at least 3 years of equivalent experience in an engineering environment.
• Strong general construction skills, including carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and excavation; ability to operate heavy equipment a plus
• Familiar with pumps, piping, centrifuges, water/air flow, etc.; aquaculture experience a plus
• Proven ability to fabricate prototype components quickly, using readily available materials
• Creative and highly self-motivated, with strong ability to follow instructions and to improvise
• Comfortable with computers; familiarity with MS Office and major CAD software a plus
• Physically capable of working in an outdoor environment
• Comfortable working in unstructured, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Overview:
Position will require candidates to generate, build, and maintain strategic customer relationships at the "C" level. Candidates will need to be familiar with alternative energy industry and/or the commodities markets. Multilingual candidates are a plus. Previous sales experience in the following areas: Alternative Energy or Commodities Sales and proven record of closing high dollar deals with "C" level. Positions will be located in: US, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Position has huge potential for growth and opportunities available globally.

Reports To: VP Business Development
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: TBD

Primary Responsibilities

• BS/MS in Chemical Engineering with 5-7 years experience
• Experience in chemical or biochemical process engineering, process scale-up and commercialization, and large scale process systems integration
• Technical sales or technical support experience with customer interactions is desirable
• Ability to work across multiple technical disciplines, including engineering, biology, chemistry, water remediation, and environmental science and with a diverse customer base
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and an ability to discuss and summarize technical information in a way that is understandable for non-technical people

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive experience in selling big-ticket business solutions, not equipment but software, technology, services or similar.
• Must have existing relationships with C-level decision makers or government entities such as sovereign wealth funds.
• Travel: +/- 50%

Additional Qualifications

• Big ticket sales. Sell the company's technology, patents, and consulting services to businesses and governments interested in building self-sustaining algae-to-fuel biofuels plants.
• MUST have extensive experience in big ticket sales of business solutions such as software, technology, or consulting services.
• Must have well-developed relationships with C-level decision makers, sovereign wealth funds, etc.

Overview:
Individual will be responsible for designing and prototyping a scaleable and cost-effective algae harvest and lipid extraction process, and for working closely with R&D scientists and other engineers to integrate all production process steps and workstation designs into a well-balanced, cost-effective continuous algae oil production process.

Reports To: Engineering Director
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: Melbourne, FL

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, analyze and validate end-to-end process for dewatering, cell lysing, and lipid separation from algae cultivation system
• Demonstrate commercial viability/economics of system design
• Assess capabilities of process systems engineering firm and assist with selection
• Support design firm on efforts to design pilot scale facility
• Provide technical support to PetroAlgae R&D facility and other engineers

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering required, Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years engineering experience required.
• Proficiency in Autocad required
• Water processing and/or biological production experience preferred.
• Familiarity with pumps, piping, centrifuges, etc.

Overview:
The Strategic Projects Analyst will be responsible for developing, maintaining, updating, and distributing daily and weekly reports from a large set of linked Microsoft Project files which forecast and track detailed task-level performance for all of the Company’s major R&D, Marketing, Operations, and Administrative projects.

Reports To: Chief Operating Officer
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: Melbourne, FL

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with project leaders and executives across the company to define specific and detailed project plans, to express them clearly in Microsoft Project including accurate resource loading and costing, and to get positively confirmed buy-in to the resulting schedules and staffing plans and budgets from the project leaders and executives.
• Track actual progress against plan for all the tasks, update the MSP files accordingly, and publish daily and weekly reports as needed by the project leaders and executives, including exports to Excel to support supplemental analysis.
• Work with individual project leaders to identify slipping tasks, define appropriate corrective action plans, and express those plans clearly in the MSP files.
• Up to 50% travel may be required.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering preferred, MBA or BS in business administration acceptable with sufficient experience.
• Minimum of 3 years engineering/technology experience required, with at least 3 years in innovation or construction project management.
• Specific experience as a project tracking analyst required.
• Developer-level fluency with MS Project and MS Excel required.
• Must be very detail-oriented, well-organized, and self-motivated.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, oral and written communication skills required, along with excellent listening and interviewing skills.

Compensation
Very competitive base salary, plus annual bonus and potential stock options. Paid vacation, health insurance and 401-k benefits.

Overview:
Candidates will be responsible for planning and implementing quality assurance policies, procedures and initiatives to meet the Company’s strategic goals. This includes multiple ISO certifications, quality systems audits, quality production controls, new product introduction, new process validations and a licensee certification program. Compensation will include base salary and bonus.

Reports To: Vice President, Quality Assurance
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: Melbourne, FL and/or Fellsmere, FL

Primary Responsibilities

• Learn and understand the Company’s global strategy, operating processes and procedures.
• Develop, document and implement an effective multi-site Quality Mgmt System that achieves multiple ISO certifications and meets
• Env. Health & Safety regulatory compliance, implement quality systems audits, training, documentation controls, S/W quality assurance testing, etc.
• Support/mentor a cross-functional program to develop, document, and implement Quality Assurance processes and procedures that will assure that the Company’s commercial pilot and production facilities perform consistently within defined process control limits, and deliver invariant-quality products that consistently meet or exceed market requirement specifications.
• Provide QA support and/or authorization for new product introduction or new process validations. Familiarity with a ‘stage-gate’ new product introduction methodology is preferred.
• Develop, document and implement Quality Assurance processes and procedures that will enable licensees of the Company’s process technology to operate their facilities such that they perform consistently within defined process control limits and deliver products that consistently meet or exceed specifications.
• Work with the Company’s Customer Care group and licensees to help the licensees earn the appropriate regulatory and ISO certifications for their PetroAlgae licensed facilities.
• Support/mentor and implement disciplined problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives based on root-cause analysis and closed-loop corrective action methodologies.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Chemical Engineering or Biology. Other appropriate disciplines considered.
• 5+ years experience in Quality Assurance with fluid systems and live-organism systems experience strongly preferred.
• A key participant or must have led a successful ISO certification effort for a large-scale commercial fluid systems process business within the last 5 years is preferred.
• Committed to facts-and-logic, data-driven, closed-loop management methods.
• Fluent in MS Office/Project/Visio, statistical problem-solving and analysis tools, value-stream mapping, web-based workflow management, etc.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• A team player with excellent interpersonal, verbal, oral and written communication skills.

Overview:
The Sales Engineer will assist the executive sales staff with technical support as required by customer or potential client requests. He/She will be responsible for working with the sales and marketing staff of this exciting new technology platform to inform potential Licensees throughout North America.

Reports To: VP Business Development
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: TBD

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as key technical resource to PetroAlgae business development team members in the field.
• Participate with business development/sales agents in customer briefings, sales meetings, and contract discussions
• Provide technical support for due diligence activities required by potential customers.

Desired Qualifications

• BS/MS in Chemical Engineering with 5-7 years experience
• Experience in chemical or biochemical process engineering, process scale-up and commercialization, and large scale process systems integration
• Technical sales or technical support experience with customer interactions is desirable
• Ability to work across multiple technical disciplines, including engineering, biology, chemistry, water remediation, and environmental science and with a diverse customer base
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and an ability to discuss and summarize technical information in a way that is understandable for non-technical people

Overview:
Position will require candidates to generate, build, and maintain strategic customer relationships at the "C" level. Candidates will need to be familiar with alternative energy industry and/or the commodities markets. Multilingual candidates are a plus. Previous sales experience in the following areas: Alternative Energy or Commodities Sales and proven record of closing high dollar deals with "C" level. Positions will be located in: US, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Position has huge potential for growth and opportunities available globally.

Reports To: VP Business Development
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Yes
Location: TBD

Primary Responsibilities

• BS/MS in Chemical Engineering with 5-7 years experience
• Experience in chemical or biochemical process engineering, process scale-up and commercialization, and large scale process systems integration
• Technical sales or technical support experience with customer interactions is desirable
• Ability to work across multiple technical disciplines, including engineering, biology, chemistry, water remediation, and environmental science and with a diverse customer base
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and an ability to discuss and summarize technical information in a way that is understandable for non-technical people

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive experience in selling big-ticket business solutions, not equipment but software, technology, services or similar.
• Must have existing relationships with C-level decision makers or government entities such as sovereign wealth funds.
• Travel: +/- 50%

Additional Qualifications

• Big ticket sales. Sell the company's technology, patents, and consulting services to businesses and governments interested in building self-sustaining algae-to-fuel biofuels plants.
• MUST have extensive experience in big ticket sales of business solutions such as software, technology, or consulting services.
• Must have well-developed relationships with C-level decision makers, sovereign wealth funds, etc.