Mechanical Engineer Co-op (May 2025)

Grow your career. Be the difference. Leading the commercialization of ground-breaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from air is challenging and exhilarating. As a member of the CE team, you'll be surrounded by smart, adventurous, curious people committed to progressing our Direct Air Capture (DAC) and AIR TO FUELS TM technologies. We're a diverse team of innovators hailing from around the world with a shared vision, purpose, and commitment to deliver large scale climate change solutions. Our headquarters is in Squamish, B.C., and our presence is expanding in many other markets around the world as we commercialize our technologies

Our culture combines our heritage as a small company with our ambitious goals. We have a passion for what we do and believe our work will have a true and lasting impact on the world. Many of our employees are drawn to CE because of the direct connection between the game-changing work we do and their own personal values.

At our core, Carbon Engineering values integrity, growth, excellence in execution, and fun. This is an environment where people matter, and contributions are noticed. Our employees work hard and are given the opportunity to learn and grow from mistakes. Diversity is embraced, and we value an inclusive work environment where every employee has an equal opportunity to be heard. We work in a dynamic environment and thrive on tackling rewarding and complex problems as a team.

Position Scope

The Mechanical Engineer Co-op is responsible for providing mechanical engineering support at Carbon Engineering's Squamish facilities; working closely with the operations, major projects, and technology development teams. Example work includes piping design, material selection, insulation specification, support/frame design, and drawing development. The student will be exposed to software tools such as MathCAD, Python and Autodesk Inventor as well as industry specific design software.

Over the next 8 months, we will be executing an important and intensive project on the Squamish site and the student will be expected to be involved in all mechanical engineering aspects of project execution.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Demonstrate a positive safety culture.
• Identify, report and resolve unsafe conditions, processes or actions within the workplace.
• Ensure that all safety related incidents, accidents and near misses are reported and investigated in line with company policy.
• Participate in process safety reviews for plant modifications.

Technical

• Mechanical Engineering
  • Support small projects on site by providing engineering judgments and calculations on proposed solutions through the MoC process.
  • Heat transfer (insulation), hydraulic, and stress/structural calculations are key. The co-op student will learn how to complete these to a level where sound engineering judgments can be made based on their results.
  • Parts selection and ordering, producing drawings and bills of materials for small and medium-sized equipment designs.
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving on both plant and laboratory equipment and processes.
  • Fitness-for-Service analysis of worn and/or damaged process equipment.
  • Hand assembly, prototyping.
  • Review of designs for code compliance. Reading and interpretation of ASME, ANSI, CSA and other codes and standards.
    
• Specification Development
  • Support the development of specifications for, for example, piping, coatings, insulation, structures, etc.
  • Support the review of vendor proposals and documents to ensure conformance with CE specifications.
  • Support the assembly of specification packages for RFP documents.
  • Support specification deviations; conducting research on implications, preparation of spec. deviation memos (stamped by the Engineer of Record).

• Engineering Document Review and Approval
  • Engineering documents - Support the updating and accuracy of our engineering drawings.
  • Checking/review - participate in review cycles for externally produced documents.
  • Document Control - Assist in the identification and retention of controlled documents for the deployment of new EDMS software.
    

Education:

• Currently enrolled in Canadian post secondary institute (3rd or 4th year)
• Preference to candidates in a relevant BEng / BASc program (Mechanical)

• Motivated curiosity and mechanical aptitude are a must.
• Keen interest in solid mechanics and material science.
• Experience with Excel, Python, MathCAD and/or Autodesk Inventor or other 3D design tools a plus.
• Experience with ASME B31.3, CSA 149.1 and 149.3, National Building Code or other relevant industry codes and standards are a plus.
• Ability to work in all weather conditions and noisy work environment.
• Safe handling of chemical products is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Thrive on doing things that have not been done before (explorer mindset).