Pilot Plant Technician (2nd shift position)

Sublime Systems

Somerville, MA, United States

Posted on: 2025-04-11

Category: materials

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Sublime is developing a breakthrough process to make low-carbon cement. The technology replaces the industry's legacy fossil-fuel-intensive thermal calciner process with an electrochemical process that produces low-carbon cement at ambient temperatures with renewable electricity. Sublime was started in 2020, as a spin-out of Yet-Ming Chiang's lab at MIT (Form Energy, A123, American Superconductor, 24M, Desktop Metals).

Sublime is advancing a breakthrough, clean, efficient, low-waste process for manufacturing cement, the essential ingredient in the most-consumed human-made material on Earth: concrete. Replacing 200-year-old manufacturing methods that are reliant on kilns running hotter than lava, our near-ambient-temperature, electrochemical technology manufactures industry-accepted cement and critical minerals. We’re partnering with leading general contractors, concrete producers, developers, and technology hyperscalers to deploy our clean, durable, beautiful Sublime Cement® in infrastructure that is defining the future of clean construction. Backed by some of the world’s largest cement producers, leading private investors, and the U.S. Department of Energy, we are assembling a talented, collaborative team that is "amped about cement" (pun intended) and committed to operating on the frontiers of material science, manufacturing, industry, construction, and commercial partnerships, to advance cement innovation that will endure for the next millennium.

Position Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to transform how the world makes cement. Sublime Systems seeks a creative and dynamic Pilot Plant Technician to support operations of our various pilot plants during a 2nd shift from 3 pm to 11 pm. The technician will be central to executing, improving upon, and maintaining procedures that enable reliable plant operation. As a member of Sublime Systems’ small but growing team the right individual will be a key resource in the scale up of Sublime’s technology.

There are opportunities in both our novel Sublime process pilot as well as our material processing pilot. This role is expected to be hands-on, with a significant amount of time spent engaging in pilot scale operation, testing and troubleshooting. Successful candidates will be reliable, ambitious, organized, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

This is an in-person position located in Somerville, MA. 2nd shift hours of 3 pm to 11 pm

Sublime Systems is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees, regardless of race, ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Responsibilities include:

Follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and ensure compliance with Sublime’s EH&S protocols.

Perform necessary pre-operation and end of shift activities to ensure proper equipment start-up, operation, and shutdown on multiple pieces of equipment. This may include feed preparation, equipment calibration, routine maintenance, and material processing such as filterpress, drier and milling operations.

Working and communicating closely with technical leads and process engineers to complete process development experiments.

Assist in the hands-on troubleshooting and repair of electromechanical systems/components and investigative tear downs of process equipment.

Maintain pilot plant conditions in a fashion that facilitates cleanliness and productivity

Move reasonably sized drums of chemicals and packages of raw materials by hand or using a hand pallet jack or hand drum truck.

Move and handle bags of raw material and finished cement product, including inventory upkeep.

The ideal candidate will have:

1-5 years of experience working in an industrial lab, production, or manufacturing environment.

A strong sense for safety, organization, and attention to detail.

Ability to master existing processes while proactively seeking out new methods to improve upon them.

Chemical processing and HMI experience

Basic understandings of laboratory and analytical testing methods

Ability to make keen observations on process anomalies

Experience operating various process equipment.

Able to lift objects up to 75 lb occasionally, climb ladders, and work on step stools

Ability to wear needed PPE, this may include full face respirator, depending on position.

Be confident, team player, bring different perspectives, and a good sense of humor.

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