Requirements: Qualifications:Required: BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent 10 years of experience 5 years hands-on engineering experience in a manufacturing, pilot plant, or R&D environment Comfortable setting up, running, and fixing industrial equipment; able to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and basic control problems Experience spec'ing and purchasing equipment and managing vendors through installation Basic fabrication skills (bandsaw, drill press, hand tools, 3D printing); able to run a CNC Proficient with SolidWorks or other 3D CAD software and able to produce drawings for fabrication Basic knowledge of manufacturing processes including conveyors, pumps, heating methods, and drying Preferred: Experience with extrusion, injection molding, presses, or similar polymer processing equipment Experience with facility utilities (process cooling, compressed air, electrical) and equipment layouts Experience setting up new processes or scaling from lab to pilot production Welding and machining (lathes, mills) Logistics: Position works full time out of Stone Mountain facility. The R&D equipment engineer works within a cross functional team of R&D scientists, engineers, and technicians to keep our lab and pilot equipment running, bring new equipment online, and set up new processes as we scale innovative compostable materials from the bench to pilot production.