Careers

DDCE is looking for highly qualified team members who are capable of envisioning big ideas, objectively evaluating and testing these ideas, and building models that produce newly created market value from them.

We offer opportunities for personal growth and development in a collaborative, creative, and rewarding workplace. DDCE is an equal opportunity employer.

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Operating and Maintenance Technicians

Current Openings

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Job summary: To research, develop, design, and/or test a wide range of machinery, equipment and mechanical systems—as standard products, customized standard products and new innovative internally designed products. This could be for DDCE proprietary equipment or in conjunction with vendors for supplied equipment to any point along DDCE's value chain. To develop routine maintenance requirements for the machinery developed as well as leading the development of a general computerized maintenance plan for Licensee's of the DDCE technology.

Summary of essential job functions:

Evaluating equipment and components for industrial application and modifying design as necessary to suit DDCE system needs. For example:
1. Pretreater mechanical seals and valves
2. Conveyors, drag chains and other solids handling equipment
3. Evaluate new concepts proposed by R&D (e.g. new pretreater)
Develop and test energy efficient size reduction equipment/systems to preprocess biomass upstream of pretreatment (corn cob, switchgrass, sorghum)
Lead effort to understand feedstock densification (e.g. pelletizing, briquetting)
Assist DDCE Feedstock team by providing input on:
1. farm implement equipment suppliers for harvesting/gathering/baling
2. methods of transport (trucks, rail, barge)
3. methods of storing
Create customized computerized maintenance management program for DDCE customers

Operating and Maintenance Technicians

DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE) is offering opportunities to work in an innovative biorefinery setting. If you are a highly motivated team player with plant operations experience, DDCE could be the right place for you. We are currently seeking qualified candidates to work at our state-of-the-art facility in Vonore, Tennessee, which is committed to demonstrating safe, efficient, low-cost production of transportation fuel from renewable biomass. This is an opportunity to apply your skills to a growth industry that is contributing to a clean energy economy and rural economic growth. DDCE offers an excellent workplace environment with a focus on safety, sustainability and career development.

Compensation:

Competitive salary and benefits packages

Qualifications:

Minimum education: high-school diploma or equivalent.
Post high-school education a plus
5 years plant manufacturing or science facility experience or equivalent
Solid understanding of plant operations and maintenance
Operating experience should include liquid and dry unit operations, such as pumps, heat exchangers, reactors, evaporation, distillation, material handling
Experience in chemical processing and ethanol production desired
Excellent job references

Successful candidates will:

Be highly motivated team players
Possess excellent oral and written communication skills
Be able and willing to perform multiple tasks
Have flexibility to work rotating 12-hour shifts and other variations

Offers of employment will be contingent upon satisfactory results of medical exams, drug tests and background checks. For immediate consideration send your cover letter and resume to resumes@ddce.com.