Role Overview

As a Project Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in executing capital-intensive projects that advance our mission to decarbonize cement and building materials. You’ll work cross-functionally to deliver technical excellence, operational efficiency, and strategic execution, supporting the deployment of Carbon Upcycling’s technology at scale. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to projects that boost plant capacity, strengthen local supply chains, and lower the carbon footprint of construction worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Project Execution & Technical Leadership

• Perform engineering design evaluations to ensure technical feasibility, regulatory compliance, and alignment with project objectives, schedules, and budgets.

• Develop and communicate detailed project execution plans for project completion, including deliverables, work specifications, milestones, budgets, resource allocations, risks & issue registers and change control management.

• Monitor project progress and performance such as tracking spend vs budget, schedule slippages, change requests

  etc and proactively address progress & technical challenges to enable execution excellence.

• Ensure health, safety, environment (HSE) and regulatory compliance during project delivery.

Strategic & Commercial Support

• Collaborate with business development and commercial teams to deliver robust technical input for project proposals, pricing strategies, and commercial negotiations.

Financial and Operational Discipline

• Support the preparation and management

  of project schedules, budgets, and forecasts, reflecting the economics of capital-intensive deployments.

• Ensure compliance with quality assurance and regulatory standards throughout project execution.

• Oversee project documentation: produce and maintain SOPs, technical deliverables and reports.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with project teams, EPC firms, field operations, and strategic partners to ensure technical feasibility, alignment project objectives and ensure smooth execution.

• Coordinate 3rd party vendors, contractors, and consultants to ensure contract deliverables, quality, schedule adherence and cost alignment.

• Serve as a bridge between engineering, operations, and commercial teams to align around Carbon Upcycling’s industry-focused strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – Mechanical, Process; Professional Engineer (P.Eng) designation preferred.

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in project engineering, project management, or project planning within heavy industry, building materials, or cement.

• Experience with cement plants, solid material handling, and field operations strongly preferred.

• Proven ability to manage capital-intensive projects, including budgeting, scheduling, and resource coordination.

• Strong client-facing and internal communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Experience with EPC firm collaborations and change management processes.

• Excellent attention to detail, multi-tasking capabilities, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Why Join Us?

At Carbon Upcycling, your work drives meaningful progress toward a low-carbon future. You’ll be empowered to deliver real impact—boosting plant capacity, strengthening local supply chains, and enabling cost-competitive, sustainable building materials. Join a high-performance team where ambition meets action, and where your contributions shape the future of the cement and building materials sector.