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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 12pt\">Energy Exploration Technologies has a mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy. Founded in 2018, the company is fundamentally changing the way humanity is powering our world and storing clean energy with breakthrough lithium-ion technology and energy storage solutions.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">The Role</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The Mechanical Engineer will own key process equipment packages, work directly with vendors and engineering firms, and help optimize two demonstration plants to achieve target productivity, operability, and cost-effective commercial design. This role bridges pilot and demonstration operations with commercial engineering.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Lead mechanical engineering activities for pilot, demonstration, and early commercial lithium separation systems, with responsibility for one or more critical equipment packages.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Translate process development and process design package (PDP/PDS) requirements into practical, reliable, and cost-effective equipment and plant designs.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Develop and review process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&amp;IDs), equipment layouts, utility requirements, hydraulic calculations, and equipment data sheets.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Collaborate with process engineers, operations personnel, vendors, construction partners, and external engineering firms to support scale-up from demonstration to commercialization.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Support optimization, modification, troubleshooting, and ramp-up of two demonstration plants.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Commercial Engineering Scope</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Own vendor engagement for major process equipment packages such as filtration, drying, evaporation, separation, micronizing, thickening, pumps, valves, tanks, heat exchangers, and water treatment systems.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Prepare or support technical bid packages, review vendor proposals, compare technical options, and drive equipment selection based on performance, operability, maintainability, and total installed cost.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Review and revise vendor mechanical designs, P&amp;IDs, specifications, and expected performance to align with EnergyX process requirements and simplify the commercial plant design where possible.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Work closely with external engineering firms on equipment integration, plot plans, plant layout, utilities, and interdisciplinary design coordination.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Support design reviews, HAZOP/operability discussions, and field issue resolution during engineering, fabrication, installation, and commissioning.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Travel to vendor, fabricator, engineering firm, or project sites as needed during detailed engineering and equipment delivery.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Demonstration Plant Scope</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Support commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement activities for two demonstration projects.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Identify bottlenecks in equipment, key components, and flow systems; propose and implement modifications that improve capacity, reliability, and ease of operation.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Collect and interpret operating data to recommend design improvements for the next scale of deployment.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Partner with operators and technicians to improve equipment maintainability, spare parts planning, and standard operating practices.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">Required Qualifications</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">3-5+ years of mechanical engineering experience in chemical processing, minerals processing, water treatment, or a similar industrial environment.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Experience developing, reviewing, and checking PFDs, P&amp;IDs, equipment specifications, general arrangement drawings, and vendor packages.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Working knowledge of industrial equipment including piping systems, valves (manual, control, and relief), pumps, pressure vessels, filters, coalescers, columns, evaporators, tanks, heat exchangers, and reactors.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Proficiency with CAD tools such as AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Knowledge of applicable design codes and standards such as ASME, DIN/EN, and related regulatory requirements.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot equipment, communicate effectively with vendors, and work across process, operations, and project teams.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">Preferred Qualifications</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">•</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\"> </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Experience supporting pilot plants, demonstration plants, or first-of-a-kind process scale-up projects.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Experience working directly with fabrication shops, OEMs, EPC/EPCM firms, or construction contractors.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Spanish language proficiency.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">Success in This Role</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Drive critical equipment packages from concept through vendor selection, design review, fabrication support, and commissioning.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Help demonstration plants achieve target production rates and stable operation.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">• </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Contribute to a simpler, more robust, and more cost-effective commercial plant design.</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">Work Environment</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">This position is based in Austin, Texas. Travel to vendor facilities, engineering partners, project sites, and international locations in South America may be required - up to 25% travel.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">What we Offer</span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Competitive pay </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Paid time-off, holidays, and sick time </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">401(k) with employer match  </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Equity Package </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Medical, dental and vision benefits with employer contribution; voluntary benefits available </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">EnergyX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EnergyX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.</span></p>",
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