Director, Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
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Director serving as technical authority for anaerobic wastewater treatment at Mobius Renewables, converting wastewater biogas into renewable natural gas. Optimizing treatment systems, feedstocks, and plant performance across U.S. facilities.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Mobius Renewables’ primary technical authority for industrial wastewater treatment within the anaerobic digestion business
- Evaluate wastewater characteristics including COD/BOD, TSS, FOG, nutrients, pH, alkalinity, toxicity/inhibition, temperature, and other factors affecting biological treatment and anaerobic digestion
- Provide technical guidance on aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment, clarification, solids handling, DAF, nutrient management, pretreatment, polishing, and related wastewater technologies
- Maintain knowledge of emerging wastewater and resource-recovery technologies and assess applicability to projects
- Partner with Development and Commercial teams to evaluate new wastewater and anaerobic digestion opportunities
- Conduct or oversee technical due diligence of wastewater streams, existing treatment infrastructure, and proposed projects
- Assess treatability and variability of prospective feedstocks and identify process risks
- Identify opportunities to improve project economics through process optimization, resource recovery, reduced chemical or energy consumption, and improved biogas production
- Partner with Operations to optimize wastewater treatment and anaerobic process performance across operating facilities
- Diagnose process upsets and recurring performance issues and lead corrective actions
- Analyze operating data and trends affecting treatment efficiency, system stability, biogas production, chemical consumption, solids generation, and operating cost
- Develop operating parameters, KPIs, monitoring requirements, and performance standards
- Support root-cause investigations following significant process or treatment events
- Lead technical discussions with customers, regulators, engineering firms, and other external stakeholders
- Develop capital and operating-cost budgets for wastewater treatment improvements and integrate them into financial planning
- Work across Development, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Project Execution to troubleshoot facilities and drive portfolio-wide continuous improvement
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biological Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in industrial wastewater treatment, process engineering, biological treatment, anaerobic digestion, or related fields
- Deep technical knowledge of high-strength industrial wastewater treatment and biological processes
- Demonstrated experience designing, commissioning, operating, optimizing, or troubleshooting wastewater treatment systems
- Experience with anaerobic treatment technologies and/or anaerobic digestion strongly preferred
- Experience with food and beverage, agricultural, manufacturing, or other high-organic-load wastewater streams strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of wastewater characterization, mass balances, biological kinetics, process controls, nutrient requirements, solids management, and treatment-system performance
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical matters to nontechnical audiences
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% to Mobius facilities, customer sites, and project locations
- Preferred experience in high-strength industrial wastewater, food and beverage wastewater, anaerobic biological treatment, anaerobic digestion, renewable natural gas and biogas, DAF systems, aerobic biological treatment, nutrient removal and management, solids separation and handling, wastewater reuse and resource recovery, treatment-system commissioning and startup, process troubleshooting and optimization, industrial pretreatment programs, wastewater permitting and regulatory compliance, and greenfield and brownfield treatment-facility evaluation
Benefits:
- No specific benefits or compensation extras stated

















