Lilac Solutions is a lithium extraction company unlocking brine resources to provide essential raw materials to the battery industry. Lilac’s unique ion exchange process eliminates the environmental impact of conventional lithium extraction while boosting production. The company was founded in 2016 by a team of engineers passionate about delivering innovations to the mining sector to minimize environmental impact and support the clean energy economy. Lilac is committed to diversity and inclusion.

About Lilac:

Lilac Solutions is a lithium extraction company unlocking brine resources and providing essential raw materials to the battery industry. Lilac’s unique ion exchange process eliminates the environmental impact of conventional lithium extraction while boosting production. The company was founded in 2016 by a team of engineers passionate about delivering innovations to the mining sector to minimize environmental impact and support the clean energy economy. Lilac is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Job Description:

Lilac is seeking a Control and Instrumentation Engineer to work on ion exchange systems and other water processing technologies for lithium production. Responsibilities will include designing, developing, and installing control panels used to monitor and control the engineering processes as well as installing, managing, and maintaining the equipment. This person will be based in Oakland and will travel to project sites across the US, Europe, and South America to manage installations.

**Responsibilities: **

• Design and integrate control systems through construction of control panels and field wiring
• Test, maintain, and modify existing control systems
• Troubleshoot hardware and operational issues
• Install and maintain equipment and machinery
• Manage projects within cost and time constrained environments
• Work collaboratively with design engineers, operations engineer, operators, and technicians
• Understand and ensure compliance with relevant health and safety standards
• Generate electrical schematics for control systems
• Program PLC controllers to automate systems
• Generate control schemes alongside process engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering preferred
• Familiarity with process controls, distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
• Familiarity with ladder logic or other IEC-61131-3 languages
• Working knowledge of National Electric Code
• Knowledge and experience reading and interpreting electrical and mechanical schematics
• Knowledge and experience applying and interpreting results from common electrical measurement instruments (voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter, oscilloscope, etc.)
• Familiarity with AutoCAD Electrical, Siemens Controllers, Microsoft Office Suite
• Excited to work on a small, fast-paced startup team