Why join us?
Impact
CMS is on a mission to enable the clean energy revolution. Scalable, industrial decarbonization is within our grasp thanks to our innovative technology and practical engineering knowledge. We are focused on delivering real impacts in the near term. Our team of motivated problem solvers is coming together to make net a zero future not only our dream, but reality.
Growth
At CMS we know that our products and company won’t succeed unless each individual member of our team does. We are committed to individual growth, development, and creative role crafting. Leadership is on the lookout for untapped talent, so that we can utilize and cultivate the skills that make you great. We are a small team and you are getting in on the ground floor with plenty of headroom to grow.
Culture and Innovation
We are an encouraging home for ambitious, curious, self-directed self-starters who enjoy finding new solutions. We value and reward problems solvers who take ownership and lead with a focus on the right answer for the world, customer, product, team and company. Game changing innovation happens here, where teams are creative, decision making is nimble, and politics are rare. If you think ‘this is what we have always done’ is the worst answer, you will enjoy CMS.
Seat at the Table
Our small size means that every person has a variety of projects and collaborations across the organization, with visibility to leadership. Our open-door approach reinforces our flat structure: access for problem solving, ideation, or just sharing news. This is your opportunity to be a decision maker and implement idea and systems to drive the clean energy transition.
Open Positions
HR Specialist
If you are a seasoned HR Professional with some Recruiting experience, this is the role for you! We are looking for a candidate with experience in volume recruiting, onboarding, training, compensation structures, and policy development and planning to take a company from under 25 to over 50 employees. The HR Specialist candidate has the exciting opportunity to take ownership of the existing HR function at CMS by developing and instituting overall processes and policies in order to facilitate growth and maintain compliance. Excitement around maintaining and improving diversity, equity, and inclusivity within our naturally diverse company is a plus.
Olefins Product Manager
We are looking for someone to take ownership of the Optiperm™ Olefins product as it scales to commercial launch. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership, creativity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech innovations, comfort with ambiguity, quick to learn, technically strong, able to make data-driven decisions quickly, and excels at project management. Not afraid of challenges. Always buttoned up. Manages timeline and budget. Able to upwardly manage, collaborate, and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
Business Development Lead Olefins
We are looking for someone to lead customer development and acquisition for the Optiperm™ olefins product line as it scales to commercial launch. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership, creativity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech innovations, industry knowledge and network, technically strong, able to connect with people and establish credibility quickly, and not afraid of a challenge. Always buttoned up. Manages timeline and deliverables. Able to upward manage, collaborate, and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500
companies.
Carbon Capture Project Coordinator
We are looking for a Project Coordinator to support our Project and Business Development teams in the deployment of pilot, demo and commercial systems of our Optiperm™ carbon product line. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership and organization, creativity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech innovations and saving the planet, technically strong, able to connect with people and establish credibility quickly, and not afraid of a challenge. Always buttoned up. Manages timeline
and deliverables. Able to collaborate and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
BD Lead Carbon Capture
We are looking for someone to lead customer development and acquisition for the Optiperm™ carbon product line as it scales to commercial launch. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership, creativity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech innovations, industry knowledge and network, technically strong, able to connect with people and establish credibility quickly, and not afraid of a challenge. Always buttoned up. Manages timeline and deliverables. Able to upward manage, collaborate, and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
Process Engineer
We are looking for a highly effective Process Engineer to support the design, development, and optimization of our pilot, demo and commercial systems as we scale to
commercial launch. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership, strong collaboration skills, comfort with ambiguity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech
innovations, will be quick to learn, technically strong and able to make data-driven decisions quickly. They will be driven to become the go-to expert. Not afraid of challenges. Always buttoned up. Able to collaborate and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
Fabrication Technician
We are looking for an accomplished Engineering Technician who is experienced in design, problem solving, and equipment maintenance, and has the ability to read process flow diagrams, process instrumentation diagrams and single line electrical diagrams.
R&D Team Member
We are looking for creative and collaborative team members to join our research and development team. This role will be responsible for design of new products, researching and testing components, designing new processes for manufacturing and regeneration of membrane modules. This role is ideal for the accomplished Chemical Engineer who is experienced with experimental design materials selection, and product development, and is looking for an opportunity to shape a new product and company.
Laboratory Technician
We are looking for creative and collaborative team members to join our research and development team. This role will be responsible for contributing to new design project for products, processing equipment and custom manufacturing equipment as well as assisting engineers and scientists I the construction, repair and modification on lab and pile scale membrane test equipment. This role is ideal for the accomplished Laboratory Technician who is experienced in collecting data, running experiments, and troubleshooting experimental setups as well as experienced with design, problem solving and equipment maintenance.
About CMS
Compact Membrane Systems (CMS) is on a mission to save the planet. We create technology to capture
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avert global warming, and transform industry into a long-term sustainable enterprise. One membrane system at a time. CMS is a high-growth, advanced materials company based in Wilmington, Delaware that offers its employees personal growth, autonomy, and the opportunity to work on award-winning disruptive technology that is bringing 21st century innovation to the industrial economy.
We decarbonize today’s infrastructure for a cleaner tomorrow. CMS develops and deploys new climate oriented technologies for carbon capture, renewable gas, and improvements to existing industrial processes. We live and breathe on the cutting edge of industrial technology. CMS enables large, capital intensive industrial operations to meet the needs of a changing world and a climate challenge: operating more efficiently, while also supporting the growth of new, green industries.
We are a small but mighty group of inquisitive self-starters who are passionate about learning and making a positive impact on our team-mates, colleagues, customers, and the world every day. Our individual missions and work are varied, our work culture is collaborative, and our organization is flat.
CMS operates a research facility, product development shop, and membrane manufacturing facility.
