[Hiring] Product Engineering Manager @Mantel Capture

Role Description

The Product Engineering Manager role is about owning the equipment that makes Mantel’s technology work and is a key value driver of Mantel’s Licensing Business model. You’ll take our proprietary equipment packages (PEPs) from specification to delivery:

• Picking the right vendors
• Holding them to the right standard
• Ensuring what arrives on site performs as needed

This role is part engineer, part project manager, and fully accountable for the outcome. You’ll sit on the Product team and work at the intersections of engineering, projects, and business development. Expect to travel to vendor shops and project sites up to 25% of the time.

What you’ll do:

• Equipment Package Ownership
  • Develop Mantel’s PEPs alongside internal and external engineering resources
  • Define scope, battery limits, and how our equipment integrates with the broader plant design
  • Own the technical and commercial scope for Mantel’s PEPs across projects
  • Be the single point of accountability for each package, from first spec to installed and running
  • Translate process requirements into clear specifications, datasheets, and scopes of supply for Mantel’s projects
• Vendor Selection & Management
  • Find, qualify, and select the vendors and fabricators who can build first-of-a-kind equipment well
  • Run RFQs and bid evaluations; compare vendors on technical capability, cost, schedule, and quality
  • Manage vendors through design, fabrication, inspection, and delivery
  • Protect Mantel’s intellectual property in every vendor engagement
• Project Engineering
  • Lead design reviews and drawing approvals
  • Manage the interfaces between our equipment and the rest of the plant
  • Keep vendor documentation, technical queries, and changes organized and moving
  • Coordinate shop inspections and factory acceptance testing
• Project Management
  • Build and manage schedules and budgets for each package
  • Track progress, flag risks early, and drive issues to resolution
  • Manage change orders with a clear view of cost and schedule impact
• Delivery, Commissioning & Continuous Improvement
  • Support installation and commissioning alongside our field teams
  • Capture what we learn on each project and feed it back into design standards, vendor strategy, and the next generation of equipment

Qualifications

• 7+ years in project engineering, equipment engineering, or package management for process or industrial facilities
• B.S. in Mechanical or Chemical/Process Engineering required

Requirements

• You’ve taken equipment from a spec sheet to a running plant, and you know where it usually goes wrong
• You can read a P&ID and a GA drawing, and you can tell when a vendor is overpromising
• You’re equally comfortable in a design review and on a fabrication shop floor
• You keep schedules, budgets, and paperwork under control without letting them become the job
• You hold vendors accountable firmly but fairly, and they still want to work with you
• You like first-of-a-kind problems more than repeating what’s been done before
• You’re low-ego, direct, and you follow through

Benefits

• Ownership of the equipment at the heart of Mantel’s technology
• A role that shapes our vendor base, design standards, and how Mantel builds equipment for years to come
• Close collaboration with senior leadership and a growing scope as Mantel scales
• A central role in building one of the most exciting carbon capture companies in the world
• Highly competitive pay based on experience, including equity
• 90% subsidized medical and dental healthcare coverage for employees, 50% for dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy, mental health personal days, generous sick leave, plus a week-long winter break at the end of December
• Health/Fitness and cell phone stipend
• Paid parental leave