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Mechanical Engineer

Job description

As a mechanical engineer at AquaBattery, you will work with a team of scientists, engineers, and developers on developing a battery that works based on water and salt. You will work together with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and researchers to design, assemble, and test our innovative membrane stacks and the auxiliary equipment that turn these stacks into a functioning product. Your skills are suited for a broad set of tasks, which will include structural analysis, CAD design. You collaborate with colleagues and manufacturing partners to build, test, and commission the machines you design with the team. Together with AquaBattery researchers and engineers, you will work out our technical challenges and integrate them into our final product.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design and structural analysis of our innovative membrane stacks. (e.g., compression of materials, interaction between layers)
  • Prototyping, building, testing, and evaluating novel stack designs, and implement improvements.
  • Design, fabrication, and assembly of auxiliary equipment required to operate the membrane stacks
  • Integral design of the AquaBattery system (Installation design, piping, instrumentation, safety)
  • Collaborating with the team and external partners on cost-effective design
  • Hydraulic and hydro-electric design to minimize pumping and internal electrical losses

Function requirements:

We expect from you:

  • HBO/WO degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, applied physics, civil engineering, integrated product design or similar.
  • An affinity with many different disciplines such as mechanical-, materials-, process-,(electro)chemical-, electrical-, and software engineering
  • Good structural analysis skills, both in analytical- and finite element methods
  • Good 2D and 3D CAD skills (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD or similar)
  • Experience in manufacturing of parts and prototyping
  • (Near-) fluent in English, both spoken and written
  • You work independently and dare to take responsibility
  • You work accurately, safely, and carefully. You are critical of your own and your colleagues’ work.

The following is considered a plus:

  • >2 years of industry experience
  • Experience with safety of installations and/or certification
  • Proficient in Dutch, both spoken and written
  • Experience in making and using P&ID designs
  • Experience in/affinity with mechatronics engineering
  • Experience in/affinity with process engineering

What you can expect

  • Be part of a fast-growing organization, with the mission to accelerate the transition of energy to renewables.
  • Highly enthusiastic and motivated colleagues, looking to make a green, clean, real-world impact.
  • Have variety in your daily activities through active knowledge sharing, presentations, and collaboration.
  • Work-life balance
  • Open environment to express your opinion and share new ideas
  • Work in an English environment with colleagues of different nationalities

About our company

AquaBattery is a deep-tech company based in the Netherlands working to revolutionize green energy storage. Our mission is to cut energy bills and catalyze the development and uptake of renewable energy technologies across the EU and beyond. We recognize that renewable energy is only part of the solution, and only through pairing it with cheap and scalable energy storage solutions can truly make an impact. AquaBattery was founded in Leiden in 2014 to commercialize the world's cleanest energy storage solution. We have won a host of prestigious international awards, such as Herman Wijffels Innovation Award (2016), Accenture Innovation Award - Circular Economy (2017) and the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge (2018). Our team is composed of leading experts in water membrane technologies and the energy storage industry, combined with the leadership of visionary founders. We are supported by a network of exceptional partners, such as Climate-KIC, TU Delft, The Green Village Delft, and technical experts at Imperial College London, REDStack, and Wetsus. We have also secured industrial partners such as Compass and TBI that are able to support with electronics and installation of systems. Our technology has been successfully demonstrated through a number of prominent installations in the Netherlands and in Italy and has reached TRL 6, we are now expanding our company.

Location / Hours

Leiderdorp / Full-time: 40 hours per week

Contact details / website

info@aquabattery.nl /www.aquabattery.nl/

Please note that acquisition as a result of this vacancy is not appreciated.

Mechatronics Engineer

Job description

As a mechatronics engineer at AquaBattery, you will work with a team of scientists, engineers, and developers on developing a battery that works based on water and salt. You have strong software skills, as well as electronics skills allowing you to work together with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and researchers. You help the team by designing, building, and integrating hard- and software which brings our innovative membrane stacks to life in a smart, reliable, and usable fashion. You will be working on the control systems for our flagship battery product that is under development, as well as the automation of research setups for the research & development team. You will collaborate on the selection of instrumentation (sensors, valves, pumps etc.) and ensure that they work seamlessly with the control interfaces you create, which are easy to operate for our researchers and clients alike. Your colleagues will know you as the person creating the brains behind the machines.
Together with the AquaBattery team, you will work out our technical challenges and integrate them into our final product.

What you’ll be doing

  • Create and maintain a software system that enable a user to operate the battery system. This includes sensors, GUI, and controllers.
  • Create and maintain systems for quality control and diagnostics of newly built membrane stacks and lab setups.
  • Collaborating with the engineering team to make prototypes and tests of designs
  • Collaborating with the R&D team to design and make experimental setups
  • Selection and integration of electronics and auxiliary equipment (sensors, pumps, valves).
  • Manage the company’s codebase, enabling collaboration in software.

Function requirements

We expect from you:

  • HBO/WO degree in mechatronics, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering (with an affinity for software/electronics). Or HBO/WO degree in computer science (with an affinity for electronics) or similar.
  • Ability to manage the codebase of a software project, both when working alone as well as a small team.
  • Experience in creating hardware-in-the-loop software, machine controllers and similar.
  • Strong skills in electronics prototyping, particularly in their software (Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
  • Experience with PLC programming
  • Ability to interact efficiently with suppliers and development partners
  • (Near-) fluent in English, both spoken and written

The following is considered a plus:

  • >2 years of industry experience
  • Experience in PCB design (Eagle/KiCAD)
  • Experience setting up and handling critical equipment and software for safety monitoring of the product and workshop
  • Experience managing projects with GitHub
  • Experience applying your skills to a process-engineering project/company.
  • Proficient in Dutch, both spoken and written

What you can expect

  • Be part of a fast-growing organization, with the mission to accelerate the transition of energy to renewables.
  • Highly enthusiastic and motivated colleagues, looking to make a green, clean, realworld impact.
  • Have variety in your daily activities through active knowledge sharing, presentations, and collaboration.
  • Work-life balance
  • Open environment to express your opinion and share new ideas
  • Work in an English environment with colleagues of different nationalities

About our company

AquaBattery is a deep-tech company based in the Netherlands working to revolutionize green energy storage. Our mission is to cut energy bills and catalyze the development and uptake of renewable energy technologies across the EU and beyond. We recognize that renewable energy is only part of the solution, and only through pairing it with cheap and scalable energy storage solutions can truly make an impact. AquaBattery was founded in Leiden in 2014 to commercialize the world's cleanest energy storage solution. We have won a host of prestigious international awards, such as Herman Wijffels Innovation Award (2016), Accenture Innovation Award - Circular Economy (2017) and the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge (2018). Our team is composed of leading experts in water membrane technologies and the energy storage industry, combined with the leadership of visionary founders. We are supported by a network of exceptional partners, such as Climate-KIC, TU Delft, The Green Village Delft, and technical experts at Imperial College London, REDStack, and Wetsus. We have also secured industrial partners such as Compass and TBI that are able to support with electronics and installation of systems. Our technology has been successfully demonstrated through a number of prominent installations in the Netherlands and in Italy and has reached TRL 6, we are now expanding our company.

Location / Hours

Leiderdorp / Full-time: 40 hours per week

Contact details / website

info@aquabattery.nl /www.aquabattery.nl/

Please note that acquisition as a result of this vacancy is not appreciated.

 

 

 

 

Prototyping Engineer

Job description

As a prototyping engineer at AquaBattery, you will work with a team of scientists, engineers, and developers on developing a battery that works based on water and salt. You will work together with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to set-up and utilize an effective methodology where new ideas for prototypes, testing equipment, and lab setups can be designed, produced, assembled, and tested in a rapid iterative manner. You will design, build and integrate equipment such as the membrane stack prototypes themselves, auxiliary equipment (piping, pumps, valves, sensors. You will assist in the layout design and assembly of our pilot project(s) and the development of a repeatable and efficient method to produce and assemble the membrane stacks. You will also assist in the design of test setups to validate the theoretical work of our researchers and engineers at lab, prototype, and product scale. Your colleagues will know you as the person that can turn ideas into physical objects. Together with AquaBattery researchers and engineers, you will work out our technical challenges and integrate them into our final product.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing, building, and assisting in the development of new, innovative membrane stack designs.
  • Designing and building equipment needed to produce, assemble, and test the stacks
  • Collaborating with the engineering team to make prototypes and tests of designs
  • Collaborating with the R&D team to design and make experimental setups
  • Strength calculations and/or simulations (e.g., frames to hold the stacks and equipment during operation and transport)
  • 3D CAD design (pilot installation layout(s) and experimental setups among others)
  • Setting up workflows for in-house (rapid) prototyping and developing best practices with the machines involved

Function requirements

We expect from you:

  • Excellent hands-on prototyping and building skills. You are a true “maker” with a wide array of techniques at your disposal.
  • Experience with workshop management, setting up and maintenance of machine tools, and the acquisition of machine tools.
  • Good design skills (Fusion360, Solidworks, Inventor, Rhinoceros or similar)
  • Collaboration skills in design and manufacturing
  • A HBO degree in a relevant field (mechanical engineering, mechatronics, industrial design engineering), an MBO degree as (research) instrument maker, or similar.
  • Experience in manufacturing parts yourself, as well as collaborating with external production partners
  • Proficient in English and Dutch, both spoken and written.
  • You work independently and dare to take responsibility
  • You work accurately, safely, and carefully. You are critical of your own and your colleagues’ work.

The following is considered a plus:

  • >2 years of industry experience
  • Skills in welding.
  • Skills in soldering/electronics
  • Skills in using and programming microcontrollers/PLCs
  • Experience making research equipment
  • Experience making chemical equipment
  • Experience with safety of installations
  • Experience with industry norms

What you can expect

  • Be part of a fast-growing organization, with the mission to accelerate the transition of energy to renewables.
  • Highly enthusiastic and motivated colleagues, looking to make a green, clean, real-world impact.
  • Have variety in your daily activities through active knowledge sharing, presentations, and collaboration.
  • Work-life balance
  • Open environment to express your opinion and share new ideas
  • Work in an English environment with colleagues of different nationalities

About our company

AquaBattery is a deep-tech company based in the Netherlands working to revolutionize green energy storage. Our mission is to cut energy bills and catalyze the development and uptake of renewable energy technologies across the EU and beyond. We recognize that renewable energy is only part of the solution, and only through pairing it with cheap and scalable energy storage solutions can truly make an impact. AquaBattery was founded in Leiden in 2014 to commercialize the world's cleanest energy storage solution. We have won a host of prestigious international awards, such as Herman Wijffels Innovation Award (2016), Accenture Innovation Award - Circular Economy (2017) and the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge (2018). Our team is composed of leading experts in water membrane technologies and the energy storage industry, combined with the leadership of visionary founders. We are supported by a network of exceptional partners, such as Climate-KIC, TU Delft, The Green Village Delft, and technical experts at Imperial College London, REDStack, and Wetsus. We have also secured industrial partners such as Compass and TBI that are able to support with electronics and installation of systems. Our technology has been successfully demonstrated through a number of prominent installations in the Netherlands and in Italy and has reached TRL 6, we are now expanding our company.

Location / Hours

Leiderdorp / Full-time: 40 hours per week

Contact details / website

info@aquabattery.nl /www.aquabattery.nl/

Please note that acquisition as a result of this vacancy is not appreciated.

Process Engineer

Job description

As a process engineer at AquaBattery, you will work with a team of scientists, engineers, and developers on developing a battery that works based on water and salt. You will be responsible for addressing process design and operation related subjects. As member Product Development team, you will form the bridge between our team and R&D, translating stack test parameters to the system design. This involves the preparation of process flow diagrams, design, and selection of components, such as piping, valves and pumps, and mass and heat balance of the system. You ensure material compatibility and find solutions to optimize system energy losses and system safety. Together with AquaBattery researchers and engineers, you will work out our technical challenges and integrate them into our final product.

What you’ll be doing

  • Heat and mass balance calculations
  • Hydraulic calculation and pump sizing
  • Develop PFD, P&ID, CAD piping layout, and equipment and line/valve list
  • Optimize system to minimize hydraulic losses and improve overall energy efficiency
  • Lead process safety and HAZOP reviews
  • Interact with suppliers and development partners
  • Collaborate with R&D team take design inputs and implement at system scale

Function requirements

We expect from you:

  • Bachelors or Masters in Process, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering
  • >2 years of industry experience
  • Experienced in generating process design documents: PFD, P&ID, equipment list, line/valve list
  • Experience in 3D modelling of process design
  • Familiarity with regulations compliance
  • Ability to interact efficiently with suppliers and development partners
  • (Near-) Fluent in English, both spoken and written
  • An entrepreneurial mindset

The following is considered a plus:

  • Experience in electrochemistry
  • Experience with integration of electronics in a process
  • Proficient in Dutch, both spoken and written

What you can expect

  • Be part of a fast-growing organization, with the mission to accelerate the transition of energy to renewables.
  • Highly enthusiastic and motivated colleagues, looking to make a green, clean, real-world impact.
  • Have variety in your daily activities through active knowledge sharing, presentations, and collaboration.
  • Work-life balance
  • Open environment to express your opinion and share new ideas
  • Work in an English environment with colleagues of different nationalities

About our company

AquaBattery is a deep-tech company based in the Netherlands working to revolutionize green energy storage. Our mission is to cut energy bills and catalyze the development and uptake of renewable energy technologies across the EU and beyond. We recognize that renewable energy is only part of the solution, and only through pairing it with cheap and scalable energy storage solutions can truly make an impact. AquaBattery was founded in Leiden in 2014 to commercialize the world's cleanest energy storage solution. We have won a host of prestigious international awards, such as Herman Wijffels Innovation Award (2016), Accenture Innovation Award - Circular Economy (2017) and the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge (2018). Our team is composed of leading experts in water membrane technologies and the energy storage industry, combined with the leadership of visionary founders. We are supported by a network of exceptional partners, such as Climate-KIC, TU Delft, The Green Village Delft, and technical experts at Imperial College London, REDStack, and Wetsus. We have also secured industrial partners such as Compass and TBI that are able to support with electronics and installation of systems. Our technology has been successfully demonstrated through a number of prominent installations in the Netherlands and in Italy and has reached TRL 6, we are now expanding our company.

Location / Hours

Leiderdorp / Full-time: 40 hours per week

Contact details / website

info@aquabattery.nl /www.aquabattery.nl/

Please note that acquisition as a result of this vacancy is not appreciated.