[Hiring] Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer @Talus Renewables

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer to own the compressors and pumps in our modular green ammonia systems, from process requirements and datasheets through procurement, packaging, factory testing, commissioning, and long-term reliability in the field. You will report to our Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Hydrogen and nitrogen compression sits on the critical path of plant availability, and this role exists to make those packages the most reliable part of the plant. You will start alongside an external compressor specialist retained for our next-generation system, and we expect you to take full ownership of the scope as that engagement concludes. This role is fully remote and open to candidates anywhere with strong English.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements and datasheets:
  • Translate process duty into a compressor specification and datasheet with every requirement traceable to a stated duty.
  • Set flow, suction and discharge conditions, gas composition, moisture, turndown and load-following behavior.
• Technology selection:
  • Assess compressor types for each service, including reciprocating, diaphragm, screw, centrifugal and integrally geared.
  • Record why the selected type suits hydrogen, nitrogen and syngas duty at our scale.
• RFQ and procurement:
  • Build and issue an RFQ package that is complete and technology-neutral.
  • Run the vendor clarification rounds and close out deviations before award.
• Bid evaluation:
  • Produce the technical bid tabulation and normalize offers to a common scope.
  • Recommend an award based on documented grounds that weigh guaranteed power and performance, wear-part life, availability, maintainability and spares alongside price and delivery.
• Package engineering:
  • Review and challenge everything the vendor supplies around the machine.
  • Ensure proper machinery protection and instrumentation, baseplate and skid structure, and piping and utility interfaces.
• Maintainability:
  • Settle removal envelopes, lifting provisions and maintenance access during design.
• Reliability and spares:
  • Fix the criticality, sparing philosophy, condition-monitoring basis and maintenance intervals for every machine before it ships.
  • Build the failure-mode picture for each package and design the monitoring around it.
• Factory testing:
  • Define and witness factory acceptance and performance testing.
• Commissioning and start-up:
  • Support receipt, installation, alignment, flushing and pre-commissioning at site.
  • Confirm the spares and documentation are on site before the plant needs them.
• Field troubleshooting:
  • Diagnose problems on running machines and close each one out at root cause.
• Other rotating equipment:
  • Carry the same ownership for pumps, blowers, fans and other rotating equipment on the system.
• Standards and knowledge transfer:
  • Take the rotating equipment scope in-house as the external specialist support ends.

Qualifications

• Strong commitment to the Talus mission and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 10 to 15 years in rotating equipment or machinery engineering, most of it on compressors in process plant service.
• Experience taking at least two packaged compressor trains through the full cycle.
• Evaluated competing compressor offers on lifecycle terms.
• Working command of compressor standards (API 618, API 11P, API 617, API 619, etc.).
• Ability to write and defend a compressor datasheet from process data.
• Experience in light or low-molecular-weight gas service.
• Applied reliability practice, covering criticality assessment, failure mode analysis, etc.
• Witnessed factory testing and troubleshot running equipment.
• Experience with centrifugal and positive displacement pumps and their sealing systems.
• Able to hold vendors and packagers to schedule and quality.
• Effective communication skills across cultures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in ammonia synthesis loop, hydrogen plant, air separation or refinery hydrogen service.
• Non-lubricated reciprocating or diaphragm compressors in hydrogen service experience.
• Time on the supply side of the business, at a compressor OEM, a packager, or an aftermarket organization.
• Experience with machinery protection and monitoring to API 670.
• Participation in HAZOP and LOPA studies.
• Experience working within an ISO 9001 or similar quality management system.
• Hands-on experience at project or plant sites in emerging markets.

Job Working Conditions

• Fully remote, open to candidates in any location with strong written and spoken English.
• Up to 50% travel, including international travel to operating sites, project sites, and vendor and fabricator facilities.

If you're ready to join our team, please send your resume/CV to [email protected] .