Heavy Equipment Mechanic

Number of employees

50

Akranes, Iceland, Iceland

Posted on: 2022-06-30

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

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About the company:

At Running Tide, we build technologies that allow us to harness the power of the ocean to build a climate positive future. Oceans represent two-thirds of the Earth’s surface and have an understated role to play in the future of our life on Earth. Once abundant marine ecosystems and thriving coastal communities are now suffering due to pollution, ocean acidification and declining water quality. At Running Tide, we have experienced this firsthand, and we know the problem won't solve itself. That’s why we are building technologies to accelerate, scale and optimize the naturally restorative benefits of shellfish and kelp in the ocean. 

Our technologies enable us to rebuild food systems that are zero carbon and provide positive ecosystem services. Our shellfish production is mostly automated, entirely data-driven, and takes up a only a fraction of the space as traditional shellfish operations. Shellfish are the optimal protein for a growing population because they are delicious, healthy, and climate positive.

We are also building the most efficient carbon removal system in the world. Kelp is a macroalgae that absorbs CO2 from the water as it grows. Using ocean currents and gravity we sink the kelp and its embodied carbon to the deep ocean where it remains for thousands of years. Our technologies enable us to reduce the cost, predict outcomes, and massively scale carbon removal. 

Using our technologies and production capabilities of our shellfish and kelp hatcheries, we also restore Blue Carbon habitats in coastal ecosystems. Our coastal shellfish reefs, kelp forests and seagrass meadows are engines for biodiversity and job creation, however these ecosystems are severely degraded all over the world. These ecosystems drive direct economic value to coastal communities and protect our coasts from storms and erosion. Only active restoration efforts will bring these systems back into balance, giving future generations the opportunity to benefit from the ocean's bounty.

Running Tide is an ocean technology company built to tackle humanity's most urgent challenge: climate change. We build cutting-edge solutions that integrate engineered and biological systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and secure food systems. Our multidisciplinary team of world-class scientists, engineers, and maritime operators is working as fast as possible while the world is burning.

Running Tide is seeking a versatile, driven, flexible heavy equipment mechanic to manage and oversee our machinery maintenance and troubleshooting at our Iceland-based production operation. The mechanic will work with the local and global operations team to ensure efficiency in the delivery of our ready-to-deploy carbon removal systems.

You will be responsible for day-to-day equipment maintenance and repair, service interval planning, overhaul/heavy repair planning, inventory control, a budget and will be making decisions and recommendations on best ways to reach our goals. Working with owned and leased equipment including diesel powered wheel loaders, fixed hydraulically-powered (diesel and electric) mixers, conveyor systems, wood grinders, dump trucks and lifting equipment.

Our teams operate with utmost persistence. We are tackling the world’s most difficult and important problems, and we are unwavering in our motivation to find a solution. At our core, we are innovators driven to do "more good" rather than "less bad" in the world.

Running Tide is committed to building a diverse team, bringing as many possible perspectives to bear on the unprecedented challenges facing our planet. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds  can come to do their best work.

Responsible For:

  • All aspects of maintaining an array of heavy construction equipment.
  • Consistently meeting on-line/on-time goals and continuously improving system efficiency.
  • Reporting and making recommendations related to problems, throughput, bottlenecks.
  • Working with local contractors and vendors to partner and managing those relationships.
  • Forecasting and keeping equipment maintenance schedules and parts inventories.
  • Keeping our operations within budget.
  • Optimizing our system by partnering with the global operations team to define and implement improvements.
  • Keeping a constantly safe and healthy work environment. Implementing and improving safety protocols and processes
  • You:

  • Have experience maintaining and repairing a broad range of heavy construction equipment.
  • Have experience managing light inventory.
  • Can operate in a fast changing environment
  • Are creative and figure out ways to get the thing done, even though it isn’t perfect
  • Want to do your part in helping fight the climate crisis
  • Speak English well and preferably also Icelandic
  • Understand that this is a first-phase startup operation, will be far from perfect, and are eager to help in the transition to a permanent, steady-state operation.
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