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CarbonCure Technologies is a fast-growing carbon utilization company focused on reducing embodied carbon in concrete construction. The company injects and permanently embeds captured CO₂ in concrete while enabling reductions of carbon-intensive cement, with hundreds of systems operating worldwide and hundreds of thousands of metric tons of CO₂ saved to date. CarbonCure has won the Carbon XPRIZE Grand Prize and been inducted into the Cleantech 100 Hall of Fame, with backing from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Blue Earth Capital, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung Ventures, and Mitsubishi Corporation.
Reporting to the CTO, the Director of Engineering will lead CarbonCure's central Hardware function, overseeing hardware engineering and controls, manufacturing, hardware QA/QC, supply chain, and lifecycle management of technology platforms. The role is responsible for continuously improving the existing Ready Mix hardware platform and leading industrialization and integration of newly developed Reclaimed Water and future hardware technologies as they transition from R&D into commercial deployment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing the central Hardware function with accountability for departmental resources, budgets, safety, quality and technical performance
- Owning and continuously improving the Ready Mix hardware platform
- Leading industrialization, hardware integration and production readiness of new technologies
- Ensuring hardware systems are safe, reliable, manufacturable, cost-effective and scalable through effective engineering, validation, certification and change-control processes
- Establishing and maintaining central hardware standards, processes, documentation and technical knowledge to support consistent production and deployment across global regions
- Enabling transition of installation and maintenance to regional teams through standards, training, documentation and technical escalation support
- Providing central installation and technical support to new or developing regions until sufficient scale exists for dedicated regional capability
- Balancing central Hardware resources across core engineering, manufacturing and lifecycle responsibilities and deployment/support needs of developing regions
- Using fleet, production, quality and service data to identify systemic issues, improve reliability and performance, and reduce lifecycle cost
- Partnering with Science/R&D, Product Development, Digital and regional teams to support technology transfer, system integration and commercialization
This is a permanent, full-time position based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The role involves occasional travel to customer sites and industry events, and will support distributors and customers across different time zones with flexible working arrangements. A minimum of eight hours Monday to Friday is required, with additional time possible based on project and customer demand.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Engineering degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Mechatronics, Controls or related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of progressive engineering experience developing, deploying and supporting industrial hardware, process, controls or automation systems, including leadership experience
- Experience with multidisciplinary industrial systems integration
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and developing technical staff, including geographically dispersed teams
- Strong understanding of industrial hardware and systems integration, including mechanical, electrical, controls, instrumentation and software interfaces
- Experience with product lifecycle management, manufacturing, quality, reliability, engineering change control and continuous improvement
- Strong project and resource management skills with demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and deploy resources effectively across operational and development needs
- Comfortable using engineering, production and fleet data to identify trends, prioritize work and measure performance
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively across technical, commercial and regional teams
- Experience balancing product performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability and cost in engineering decisions
- Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic environment with changing technical, customer and regional priorities
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally with a valid passport
- Knowledge of concrete batching operations or experience working with concrete producers or similar industrial process environments is a strong asset
