Job Description

• Your mission at Climeworks is to develop structural polymers to ensure our competitive advantage in solid sorbents for Direct Air Capture (DAC). The development scope comprises adapting established synthetic protocols and applying novel synthetic methodologies to improve the overall efficiency of our sorbent. The materials are characterized in-house chemically and physicochemically.
• You help to develop and define analytical methods and tools to identify promising sorbent materials in an early stage of development.
• You will be part of our multidisciplinary team of polymer chemists and synthetic chemists and take on the responsibility of training and leading more junior colleagues.
• You instill efficient team and department collaboration, assuring continuous learning and development.
• You manage collaborations with internal and external partners to complement Climeworks in-house R&D activities.
• You are on top of the newest findings and publications in your field.
• You ensure the correct, accurate, and normed maintenance of laboratory infrastructure and implement a safety-first culture in laboratories and on-site and you take the responsibility in accurately documenting your experimental work.
• You maintain confidentiality of new concepts and designs, including in discussion with suppliers by arranging NDAs, etc. as well as ensuring that the patent responsible is informed regarding new concepts & designs so that new designs can be patented.
• You respect Climeworks safety rules and communicate to the department head recognized risks and you participate in safety exercises and courses.