Remote Senior Membrane Applications Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Membrane Applications Engineer at ZwitterCo, a company specializing in membrane-based filtration technology. The role involves working with the sales team to identify commercial opportunities, developing design guidelines, and providing technical support among other responsibilities. The ideal candidate should have experience in crossflow filtration system design, particularly reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration.

Requirements

• A university degree in an engineering discipline is required unless the candidate has extensive previous work experience in a comparable role
• 10+ years of experience with crossflow or tangential flow filtration is required
• Experience costing, designing, and/or installing reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, and other spiral wound membrane systems
• Broad knowledge of water and wastewater treatment technologies, processes, and markets
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral

Responsibilities

• Be an internal and customer-facing subject matter expert for ZwitterCo product families and targeted applications/markets
• Partner with the sales team in the customer discovery process and identify commercial opportunities, assessing technical fit of ZwitterCo products
• Develop process and system design guidelines for integration, OEM, and fabrication partners in target applications/markets for spiral-wound membrane products
• Develop customer proposals which include providing a design and cost basis for membrane systems
• Review and improve channel partner system designs for optimal operations incorporating lessons learned from pilot and full-scale deployments
• Lead in-person technical training of preferred partners’ engineering teams
• Provide insight to element, process, and system design improvement studies with internal and external stakeholders
• Evaluate, mitigate, and communicate technical risks associated with new applications, projects, and/or partners
• Own process due diligence and technical project approval
• Troubleshoot complex customer problems and provide recommendations for corrective actions
• Provide after-sales technical support and troubleshooting for commercial installations remotely or in the field
• Write technical guidance documents and give oral/written presentations to customers, industry partners, and ZwitterCo business leaders as needed

Benefits

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience and include equity and benefits
• Travel for this role is expected to be up to 25%