Elestor has a job opportunity for a: Lab Technician
Do you want to power the energy transition? Are you a team player; ready to take on varied and complex challenges?
As one of the most innovative and fast-growing companies in The Netherlands, Elestor offers exciting and competitive career opportunities with plenty of scope for both personal and professional development.
Position
As a Lab Technician, you manage the R&D lab and support the development of Elestor’s core technology. Your primary responsibility is to ensure smooth operations within the facility, build and implement the Elestor laboratory management system, and perform chemical analyses to support core technology development. Daily activities include interacting with stakeholders, documentation, implementing the lab system, and performing chemical analyses. The Lab Technician is a member of the R&D team and reports to the Stack Architect.
The Lab Technician position is aimed at further professionalizing Elestor as a company and supporting
the development of its technology. It offers the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary, high-knowledge (technological) environment where you can take ownership of managing all operations within the laboratory.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Ensuring lab safety by enforcing Elestor’s safety regulations for storing, handling, and disposing of materials and chemicals
- Promoting lab organization by proposing and implementing Elestor’s lab management system, such as: Lab equipment maintenance, Fumehood & ventilation maintenance, Quality Control of incoming goods, Lab condition, Lab consumable supply, Documentation.
- Creating a culture of ownership for all lab users, enhancing employee involvement in lab operations
- Training other Lab users on the correct use of lab equipment & facilities
- Testing & measuring incoming samples
- Perform analytical measurements (SEM/EDX, UV-Vis, FTIR, tensile-strength test, Titrations)
- Writing reports of the measurements
Profile
The ideal candidate has a background in state-of-the-art chemical laboratories in combination with excellent communication skills (with scientists, engineers, and suppliers). You recognize yourself as a Laboratorian with a proactive and typical self-starter attitude, willing to do daily chemical analysis to support the R&D team in developing Elestor's revolutionary technology. In addition, initiating, introducing, and implementing improvements to the Laboratory system is something you enjoy!
Education, skills and experience
- MBO or HBO education in analytical chemistry or organic chemistry
- Experience in a state-of-the-art chemical lab
- Working experience in a world-class (e.g., ISO9001, LEAN) environment
- Highly motivated, extremely organized, and self-driven. Proven ability to ask the right questions and challenge the status quo
- Strong communication skills in interdisciplinary teams and projects
- Hands-on, can-do mentality. Problem-solving skills
- Experience with lab management systems is a plus
- Project management techniques (are a plus)
- Fluent in English & Dutch
- Experience with working in an international company or international experience
Elestor's Mission & Relevance
Imagine a world without polluting power plants, powered purely by clean electricity…
This world is closer than you think. The sun and the wind are powerful enough, and so are the technologies to harvest their energy. However, possibilities to store renewable energy (sustainably, cost-effectively) are lacking; Long-Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) is ‘’the missing link’’ in the energy transition.
It is Elestor’s mission to cut the cost of electricity storage. We develop large-scale, cost-effective H2-FE storage technologies technologies that are carbon neutral and durable, thereby unifying the interests of the planet, people, and business profitability.
Elestor - Facts & Figures
Long Duration Electricity Storage deep tech company
- Winner of several (inter-)national awards
Ultra rapid growth path; Elestor is expanding in every direction
- Passionate team of 35 highly skilled professionals
- Closed €30M funding round in August 2022
Concrete and very fast-growing international market pull
- Agreements with clients strategically adopting the innovative storage technology in commercial settings
Technology & Roadmap
Elestor has been recognised as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the Netherlands by both the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The revolutionary low-cost flow battery systems have received several (inter)national awards in recognition of the ability to reduce the cost of storing electricity to an absolute minimum. For more understanding, feel free to visit Elestor's website. Here you'll find more about the underlying fundamentals and the triple cost reduction strategy, making Elestor’s solution unique on the world stage.
Elestor is backed by a €30 million investment and is now ready to implement an ultra-rapid growth strategy to accelerate the commercialisation and operationalization of its proven hydrogen-iron-flow battery technology. The segment is expected to represent a market potential of approximately €20 billion by 2030. The international market pull is already concrete and very fast growing.
People & Growth
At Elestor you will be in the middle of genuinely unprecedented developments, made possible by an international group of researchers and engineers of remarkable talent and diversity. In future years, the company will expand literally in every direction. In anticipation of this steep growth, Elestor will look forward to meeting sincere, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial individuals feeling energized to empower necessary change: towards a 100% clean electricity supply.
Our offer
Elestor offers an open, action-oriented and exciting working environment in a diverse and international team of highly skilled professionals. The company has a flat management structure and offers many opportunities to excel and grow.
Terms of employment are competitive and include participation in a Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program. When we succeed, we all benefit. Especially in caring for what we share the most: a healthy planet.