- Research Scientist 2
- Fermentation/Process Technician
- Research Scientist 1
- Analytical Technician
- Analytical Chemist
- Senior Process Development Engineer
- Chemistry Research Assistant
- Fermentation Engineer
- Process Development Engineer
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Research Scientist, based in Englewood, Colorado. The purpose of this position is to implement molecular and metabolic engineering strategies in industrial microorganisms for the production of biofuels. This position reports to a Team Leader Biocatalyst Development.
Requirements include
- Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Microbiology, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Molecular Biology
- Experience applying technology knowledge from multiple disciplines to identify questions and find novel solutions.
- Thorough understanding of bacterial metabolism and the concepts of metabolic engineering
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and to collaborate on the design of experiments using techniques listed under ‘Key Responsibilities’
- Demonstrated ability to work under strict timelines.
- Experience in executing multiple parallel projects.
- Attention to detail. Excellent record keeping skills.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate scientific data effectively and precisely in writing and orally.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts and techniques.
- Ability to trouble-shoot experiments and projects based on experience and a broad overall background in Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
- The candidate for this position must be an excellent collaborator since frequent interactions with experts from other fields of science will be required to complete the company’s research goals on schedule.
Responsibilities include:
The Research Scientist will be responsible for the practical implementation of molecular and metabolic engineering strategies in industrial microorganisms. Key responsibilities of the Research Scientist are:- Genetic manipulations including gene deletions, transductions and integrations
- Bacterial cell culture
- Basic molecular biology techniques such as DNA electrophoresis, restriction digestion, PCR including primer design, transformation, DNA and RNA purification
- Protein expression and characterization by SDS PAGE
- Implement and apply enzyme activity assays
- Analyzing gene expression using Real-Time PCR
- Writing technical reports
- Presentation of results in science review meetings
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only – no agency submissions accepted. No phone calls please. EOE
Fermentation/Process Technician
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Fermentation/Process Technician, based in Englewood, Colorado. The position supports activities within the fermentation and process development areas. The Fermentation/Process Technician will prepare, operate, clean and maintain fermentation and recovery equipment at the bench and pilot plant scale, collect and record experiment samples, perform basic sample assays, perform basic data analysis and maintain supply stocks in the fermentation lab and pilot plant.
Requirements include
- High School Diploma or equivalent minimum, A.S or better in an applicable field preferred.
- At least two years of experience working in a lab or with equipment. Experience in a biotechnology setting preferred.
- Demonstrated mechanical ability.
- Attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts and techniques.
- The candidate for this position must be a good communicator, team player, able to lift up to 40 pounds and willing to work flexible schedule, including overtime.
Responsibilities include:
The Fermentation/Process Technician will be responsible for preparing and maintaining media, apparatus and equipment in a ready state for experiments. Specific duties will include :- Equipment and glassware cleaning, assembly and sterilization
- Media preparation, filtration and/or in situ sterilization
- Operation of bench and pilot plant fermenters and support equipment systems
- Equipment maintenance
- Execution of experiment and sampling protocols
- Perform basic fermentation assays
- Author and maintain Standard Operation Procedures
- Document experimental runs by maintaining accurate and thorough lab notebook documentation
- Stock and order as necessary
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only – no agency submissions accepted. No phone calls please. EOE
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Research Scientist, based in Englewood, Colorado. This role is responsible for working on the molecular engineering of microorganisms for the production of biofuels.
Requirements include
- Must have at least 3 years of work experience with implementation of molecular and metabolic engineering strategies in industrial microorganisms (yeast is strongly preferred)
- Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and to collaborate on the design of experiments using techniques listed under ‘Key Responsibilities’
- Demonstrated ability to work under strict timelines
- Ability to trouble-shoot experiments and projects based on experience and a broad overall background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
- The candidate for this position must be an excellent collaborator since frequent interactions with experts from other fields of science will be required to complete the company’s research goals on schedule
- Ability to conduct multiple parallel projects
- Attention to detail. Excellent record keeping skills
- Demonstrated ability to communicate scientific data effectively and precisely in writing and orally
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts and techniques
Responsibilities include:
- Genetic manipulations of yeast, including gene deletions and integrations
- Yeast and Bacterial cell culture
- Chromosomal gene deletions and transductions in bacterial organisms
- Basic molecular biology techniques such as DNA electrophoresis, restriction digestion, PCR including primer design, transformation, DNA and RNA purification
- Protein expression and characterization by SDS PAGE, Western Analysis
- Implement and apply enzyme activity assays
- Analyzing gene expression using Real-Time PCR
- Writing technical reports
- Presentation of results in science review meetings
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only – no agency submissions accepted. No phone calls please. EOE
Requirements include
- At least an Associate’s Degree in Analytical Chemistry;
- At least 1 year of direct work experience with:
- Reagent & Sample Prep
- Data Processing with Excel
- Chromatography (LC and/or GC)
- Prefer applicants with work experience with:
- Working in a quality control lab, and an understanding of basic quality principles
- Wet chemistry, titration, or organic functional group analysis
- Elemental analysis
- Experience with ASTM fuels testing methods
Responsibilities include:
- Accurately and precisely preparing samples for GC and LC analysis.
- Properly recording and documenting all sample information and resulting data.
- Running LC and GC methods on a routine basis, and checking results.
- Processing and working up data for subsequent review and reporting.
- Accurately preparing reagents of specified pH, ionic strength, or concentration.
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only – no agency submissions accepted. No phone calls please. EOE
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Analytical Chemist, based in Englewood, Colorado. The purpose of this position is twofold: (1) to carry out routine analytical procedures in the laboratory, and deliver high quality analytical results in a timely fashion to customers in all scientific and R & D teams; and (2) to help develop new methods that solve important analytical problems for internal customers.
Requirements include:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry;
- At least 2 years of direct work experience with:
- Reagent & Sample Prep
- Data Processing in Excel
- Chromatography (LC and/or GC)
- At least 1 year of direct work experience with:
- Method Development (LC and/or GC)
- Instrument Repair (LC and/or GC)
- Prefer candidates with experience with:
- Experience working in a quality control lab, and an understanding of basic quality principles
- Wet chemistry, titration, or organic functional group analysis
- Elemental analysis
- Experience with ASTM fuels testing methods
Responsibilities include:
- Accurately and precisely preparing samples for GC and LC analysis.
- Properly recording and documenting all sample information and resulting data.
- Running LC and GC methods on a routine basis, and checking results.
- Developing new methods for LC and GC; writing SOP’s
- Understanding basic chromatographic theory, and applying it to chromatographic trouble-shooting.
- Finding and selecting the right column, mobile phase(s) and detector(s) for analytical problems
- Performing routine maintenance on instruments
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only please. No phone calls. EOE
Senior Process Development Engineer
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Senior Process Development Engineer, which is based in Englewood, Colorado. This role is responsible for the selection, development and scale-up of economical and robust biological and chemical processes to produce fermentation based biofuels. Technology areas include feed-stock processing, fermentation, recovery, and purification.
Requirements include:
- At least 10 years relevant work experience, preferably in chemical, biochemical, and/or biochemistry arena.
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree in chemical, biochemical, biochemistry or a related discipline and a minimum of 10 years of increasingly responsible professional experience solving industrial problems.
- Strong capital cost and operating cost knowledge for renewable resource conversion via fermentation to products.
- Strong knowledge of unit operation functionality including the strengths and weaknesses of various unit operations and their limitations.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data from laboratory and pilot operations to provide direction for optimal process development.
- Experience in developing mass and energy balances using an array of analytical techniques and calculation methods.
- Ability to trouble-shoot process unit operations based on experience and broad overall background in chemical and engineering sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry, analytical chemistry, process engineering).
Responsibilities include:
- Developing processes for biofuels production. Identifying critical process areas and demonstrates process technology package for production of biofuels including feed stock treatment, fermentation, recovery, and purification.
- Utilizing engineering tools (mass and energy balances, process flow diagrams, process & instrumentation diagrams, and process simulation modeling) to identify optimal processes package and calculate capital and operating costs.
- Designing, and installing laboratory and pilot equipment to demonstrate technology and study process performance and economics.
- Operating laboratory and pilot equipment to collect data for analysis and feasibility studies.
- Exploring process and microbial parameters and environmental conditions required to minimize pre-treatment needs and to optimize process economics using biological and chemical unit operations. Work with peers and management to develop the interface with biocatalyst group and downstream chemical conversion.
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630. Principals only please. No phone calls. EOE
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Chemistry Research Assistant, which will be based in Englewood, Colorado. This role is responsible for supporting exploratory organic chemistry projects for the conversion of small molecules into commodity chemicals and polymers. The research assistant will perform chemical reactions in the laboratory to produce new chemicals and materials for further testing.
Requirements include:
- Bachelors degree in chemistry, strongly prefer emphasis in organic synthesis and related analytical chemistry;
- Two – three years of knowledge and operation/analysis of: (graduate work and/or work experience)
- High pressure, high temperature reactions
- Organic compounds using GC and LC
- Basic lab equipment
- Lab Safety
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience preparing and handling heterogeneous catalysts preferred
- Prefer applicants with experience with large-scale reactions in an industrial setting.
Responsibilities include:
- Responsible for running high pressure and temperature chemical reactions successfully and safely.
- Responsible for operating and maintaining basic laboratory equipment such as vacuum pumps, compressed gas handling equipment, furnaces, analytical balances.
- Responsible for analyzing chemical products using gas and liquid chromatography.
- Responsible for reporting scientific results in clear verbal and written communications.
Gevo offers a competitive compensation package, including a complete benefits package. If interested, please submit a letter of interest, resume and salary requirements to careers[at]gevo.com or fax to 303-379-6630.
No relocation available for this position. Principals only please – no agencies.EOE
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Fermentation Engineer, based in Denver, Colorado. This role will closely interact with the metabolic engineering teams and the pilot & commercial plant team to test and develop effective biocatalysts for the production of biofuels. This position will work with the metabolic engineering group to quantitatively characterize new strains, and develop strains to meet biocatalyst performance targets.
Requirements include:
- Requires a B.S. or M.S. degree in chemical, biochemical, biochemistry or a related discipline and a minimum of 1-2 years of professional (not academic) experience solving industrial problems.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data from laboratory operations (including carbon and other mass balances) to provide direction for optimal strain and process development.
- Broad technical knowledge in the area of microbial fermentation and microbiology.
- Specialized knowledge includes microbial physiology, fermentation principles and operation, basic PC skills, culture maintenance, aseptic techniques
- Excellent communication and good interpersonal/teamwork skills are desired.
- Statistical experimental design, literature search capabilities
- Proven self-starter- must be able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Design, specify, and install laboratory fermentation equipment for strain characterization, strain improvement and early-stage process optimization.
- Set up, execute and document fermentation experiments. Work with peers and management to define pertinent experiments, develop protocols, collect and analyze resultant data within agreed time lines.
- Collect, process and organize data, and report results.
- Work with analytical chemist to identify and develop analytical protocols: reviews data for anomalies that may affect results; ensure that analytical information is valid and useful.
- Utilize experience and observations to capture knowledge from experiments, and communicate the knowledge with colleagues.
- Routine maintenance and troubleshooting of lab instrumentation.
- Conduct troubleshooting experiments, assist with training new employees, orders and audit supplies for the fermentation laboratory.
- Study alternative media sources, pre-treatment scheme, and/or bioreactor designs as currently envisioned. Works with peers and management to explore the process flow options in the laboratory by designing appropriate experiments and collecting and analyzing resultant data.
Gevo, Inc. is a high energy, team-oriented organization that is pioneering the advanced biofuels industry. We are looking for a Process Development Engineer, which will be based in Denver, Colorado. This role is responsible for supporting the selection, development and scale-up of economical and robust biological and chemical processes to produce fermentation based biofuels. Technology areas include feed-stock processing, fermentation, recovery, and purification. The Process Development Engineer creates process flow diagrams, process material and energy balances, process capital and operating costs studies to understand commercial feasibility and plant design.
Requirements include:
- At least 7 years in a professional work environment.
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering or Biochemical Engineering, or related field or equivalent education and experience.
- Strong capital cost and operating cost knowledge for renewable resource conversion via fermentation to products.
- Strong knowledge of unit operation functionality including the strengths and weaknesses of various unit operations and their limitations.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data from laboratory and pilot operations to provide direction for optimal process development.
- Experience in developing mass and energy balances using an array of analytical techniques and calculation methods.
- Ability to trouble-shoot process unit operations based on experience and broad overall background in chemical and engineering sciences (e.g. biology, chemistry, analytical chemistry, process engineering).
- Responsible for developing processes for biofuels production. Identifies critical process areas and demonstrates process technology package for production of biofuels including feed stock treatment, fermentation, recovery, and purification.
- Utilizes engineering tools (mass and energy balances, process flow diagrams, process & instrumentation diagrams, and process simulation modeling) to identify optimal processes package and calculate capital and operating costs.
- Design, specify, and install laboratory and pilot equipment to demonstrate technology and study process performance and economics.
- Operate laboratory and pilot equipment to collect data for analysis and feasibility studies.