Carbon Capture Technology Analyst

Carbon Engineering Ltd. is seeking a Carbon Capture Technology Analyst in Squamish, BC, to support the commercialization of Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies. The role involves researching market trends, analyzing data, and collaborating across departments to identify opportunities and drive revenue. Responsibilities include enhancing competitive intelligence systems, conducting techno-economic analyses, and developing reporting dashboards. The ideal candidate will work onsite at least two days a week and contribute to the company's strategy and intellectual property portfolio.
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
Reporting to the Director, Intellectual Property, the Carbon Capture Technology Analyst is responsible for conducting research, gathering, monitoring, and analyzing trends across the Direct Air Capture (DAC) and associated product market space. This role is expected to collaborate across key departments within Carbon Engineering (CE), provide insights on data trends and anomalies to identify opportunities, and drive revenue generation. Additional expectations include, contributing to the development of CE’s business strategy and intellectual property portfolio, research, analysis, and presentation of technical results to internal Executive team and various Committees, and bringing together internal teams in the collection and dissemination of key data and associated insights.

The successful candidate will be based in either Vancouver or Squamish, B.C. working onsite at least 2 days a week onsite in Squamish, B.C.

Responsibilities
• Research, gather, and monitor trends across multiple data sources (products, customers, market and environment).
• Critically evaluate and enhance the competitive intelligence data management systems.
• Conduct data analysis, including techno-economic analysis.
• Support data and analytic requests; source, validate and analyze data, build models, synthesize insights, and present results utilizing written reports and presentations.
• Collaborate internally to understand business needs and identify key opportunities.
• Collaborate with business and IP teams to develop data analytics tools, infrastructure, and work flows.
• Network in the scientific community to identify opportunities in DAC and related concepts, technologies, or products.
• Develop and routinely update reporting dashboards to share business insights with key stakeholders.
• Analyze where academic research, government funding, and/or venture capital is being directed/focused regarding DAC and associated product processes.

Education and Experience
Education:
• Master’s degree or higher specializing in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Experience:
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a technology analysis role.
• Experience in a company that has developed a new chemical process technology, including licensing and IP development would be ideal.
• A passion for finding insights in data and driving change based on those insights.
• Experience mining, extracting, manipulating, analyzing data and drawing conclusions.
• Experience in techno-economic analysis.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and quantitative analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience producing presentations and translating complex problems and data into decision-ready insights and solutions for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to think critically and strategically.
• Demonstrated excellence in technical writing.

Key Competencies
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile business and R&D environment.
• Investigative and inquisitive mindset.
• Passionate about innovation, including industry trends and their application to addressing climate change.
• Collaborate well in a team environment, including comfort working in the cross-functional interface between technical, business, and administrative teams.
• Strong organization, project management, and research skills.
• High level of independence and self-motivation – ability to come to the table ready with solutions.
• Ability to build rapport and demonstrate strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent listening ability – receptive to feedback and demonstrates flexibility, curiosity, and an ability to learn.
• “Swiss-army knife” capabilities.
• Thrive on doing things that have not been done before (explorer mindset) and tackling challenging problems.
• An excellent Business Acumen competency to understand a variety of DAC business models.

Offers and Benefits

Carbon Engineering offers a competitive compensation package including extended health benefits. Base Salary for an Intermediate to Advanced level role is $93,000 to $141,000 with additional bonus pay.

This position is eligible for our standard 40 hours/week work schedule, or our 9/80 work schedule which provides every second Friday off.

Our location in the outdoor recreation hub of Squamish gives you access to world class skiing, mountain biking, climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities within minutes of the office, while in close proximity to Vancouver, one of the most beautiful and culturally diverse cities in Canada.

Joining Carbon Engineering provides you more than a career – it’s a calling for those who are ready to make a difference in climate action. We provide hope.

Carbon Engineering is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.