Engineering Project Manager, Ambercycle

$120-200k

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Los Angeles

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Ambercycle

Circular economy for textiles

Open for applications

Ambercycle

Circular economy for textiles

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityFashionScience

Open for applications

$120-200k

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Los Angeles

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2BSustainabilityFashionScience

Company mission

To convert end-of-life textile into new yarns and end 'waste' in fashion.

Role

Who you are

  • Positive and Visionary: You bring positive energy and a forward-thinking mindset, determined to contribute to a more sustainable future
  • Continuous Learner: You're committed to staying at the forefront of sustainable materials and technologies
  • Effective Communicator: You excel in direct communication, value feedback, and see challenges as opportunities for growth
  • Adaptable Problem Solver: You thrive in a dynamic environment and embrace changes in project priorities
  • Team Player: You collaborate effectively and enjoy being part of a team dedicated to sustainable innovation
  • Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil or Materials Engineering (required)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil or Materials Engineering
  • 5+ years of program management experience within engineering environments
  • 5+ years managing large capital projects and collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including engineering contractors
  • Ability to travel up to 40% percent, domestic and international

Desirable

  • 6+ years of process engineering or process design experience
  • Advanced problem-solving with clear communication; ability to comprehend complex problems and break them down into manageable, clearly understood workstreams
  • Proficiency in data-driven decision-making and with project management tools
  • Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining, and communicating schedules
  • Experience with techno-economic analysis, trade-off studies, financial evaluation, process economics, and OpEx/CapEx modeling
  • Demonstrated experience in the management of engineering projects for mass-produced products
  • Ability to work cross-functionally, manage teams, and effectively hold others accountable
  • Proven ability to operate under pressure while managing multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Track record of linking research and development activities with successful real-world implementation
  • Knowledge of chemistry, polymers, technology and manufacturing
  • Ability to effectively operate and deliver results in a fast-paced, open environment
  • Experience in a startup environment

What the job involves

  • We're looking for a Engineering Project Manager to join our team and play a key role in advancing our circular materials initiatives
  • We’re looking for an energetic and passionate Engineering Project Manager who will play a critical role in the design, engineering, construction, and startup of Ambercycle’s first-of-a-kind commercial plant
  • You will work in collaboration with Ambercycle’s engineering teams to oversee various phases of engineering, construction, and design for the facility
  • You will also lead the PMO's cross-functional programs, new initiatives across process development, and new product introduction
  • Lead and operationalize cross-functional programs, spanning all engineering organizations, with a focus on process design, capital projects, and technology development
  • Create, maintain, communicate, and present schedules for engineering projects to the company management
  • Manage internal and external project interfaces to drive efficient decision-making and achieve successful project completion
  • Execute technically challenging programs and projects requiring engineering knowledge
  • Work with AC and external teams to realize commercial plants within budget and on schedule
  • Develop CAPEX and OPEX models to aid in decision making
  • Collaborate with leadership to create tools for the tracking and monitoring of project metrics
  • Define and drive tasks to be performed by the cross-functional team. Prioritize team project work based on schedule, risk, resources, and payback. Track status of projects and action items against the schedule
  • Develop, implement, and refine project management procedures, frameworks, and metrics to achieve well-defined success criteria
  • Identify creative ways to overcome obstacles and meet the schedule despite setbacks
  • Define, report, and maintain program health, success metrics, and ongoing progress
  • Standardize documentation and enhance project communication processes to foster consistency
  • Create canonical documentation (including risk and decision registers, management of change documentation, etc.) to ensure alignment across teams
  • Travel to company locations and facilities for meetings, training, special projects and information gathering (domestic and international)

Our take

Fast fashion leads to an enormous amount of waste. It isn’t sustainable, and there’s been a huge cultural push towards a different model in recent years. Ambercycle rides that momentum, providing a circular economy for textiles that cuts out the industry’s waste.

It provides new ‘molecular regeneration’ technology, which allows for fibers to be completely broken down, separated from hardware, dyes, and other components, and reconstituted into premium ‘cycora’ fabrics. Waste is vastly cut down, and turned into new products, creating revenue as well as helping the planet.

While the company is operating in a small corner of the market, it envisions building large-scale recycling factories over the next 10-15 years, creating a systemic change in the industry, Aiming to incentivize the collection of garments, ensuring that materials circulate within the supply chain rather than exiting it with the goal of establishing a structure where polyester remains within the supply chain, contributing to a sustainable and circular approach that aligns with environmental conservation efforts.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2023

$5m

EARLY VC

Jan 2022

$21.6m

SERIES A

Total funding: $28.2m

Company HQ

Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA

Leadership

Graduated fgrom the University of Californina, Davis and has served as the CTO of Ambercycle for over 8 years now.

Graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and has served as the CEO of Ambercycle for over 8 years now.

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