Climate change is real and we need to act fast. Our purpose is to restore the carbon balance in our atmosphere. We believe it’s important to have a positive impact on society, the economy, and the climate. Are you ready to join us on our mission?

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE IS SOMEONE WHO

Ideally brings strong teamwork skills and you’re able to apply self-management. Furthermore, you’ll bring;

• A way of working which is driven by working extremely accurate (this is your top skill!).
• Either a Vocational Degree (MBO) or a Bachelor’s degree. It’s even ok if you’re still pursuing a degree and you’re looking for an interesting role as a working student.
• Some lab experience (either gained via an internship, or some work experience).
• Knowledge of research and laboratory techniques.
• A mindset driven by flexibility while being procedural; you’ll stick to preset procedures while you’re also able to act flexibly on the spot (servicing our researchers, being your internal customers).
• The option to be available for at least 24 hours a week.
• Fluency in English, both speaking and writing, as we work in an international environment.
• The right energy when it comes to our purpose and you’re ready to take a leap into our scale-up.

ROLE

As a scale-up, the team at Carbyon is experiencing quite a steep growth curve. We will be building several DAC machines soon, filled with our own-invented active material. As this is the ‘heart’ of our machine, the active material is of paramount importance. And while our own-invented active material fundamentally works, every improvement makes our machines even more efficient. In the end, want to capture CO2 faster with a lower energy consumption!
Given that, our scientists work on different characteristics of this active material, to increase the performance. As this is an iterative process (going back and forth with different type of samples), it comes with a lot of testing for CO2 adsorption on a smaller scale. This is being done on in-house built equipment, focused on both high throughput tests as well as under realistic conditions.
While interfacing with our researchers, it’s up to you to very accurately run those tests based upon given procedures. As it comes with a standardized procedure, it’s quite a challenge to operate consistently. Essentially, to limit the human variable within the context of those tests.
Next to performing those CO2 adsorption experiments, your role comes with proper documentation of the tests results, enabling the researchers to take the next step in the industrialization process. As you’ll work with in-house built equipment your role occasionally comes with troubleshooting when the equipment isn’t behaving properly. When you’re not able to fix it, you’ll check in with the product owner of the specific equipment to fix the issue.
Bottom line, an exciting role that requires laser accuracy in an innovative and dynamic lab environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

While we did our utmost best to give you a colorful context as given above, we’d also like to put your responsibilities in a few bullets. Simply to recap your responsibilities a bit more clearly. As you can see, we’ve divided this into four building blocks, including a fair estimate of time you’ll spend on each of them.