R&D Technician

 Omnis Building Technologies is developing a new precast composite panel for the building envelope. We're in late R&D, transitioning into pilot manufacturing, with third-party certification in progress and a commercial line on the horizon. The work spans chemistry, mechanical equipment, controls, and structural engineering — and it changes week to week. You will see the inside of every problem from the chemistry of the binder, to the controls on the mixer, to the rebar going into the truss, to the finished panel coming out the door — and you will help us bring all of it from prototype to production-ready. 

We're looking for someone curious, capable, and willing to learn. Specific skills in any of the areas below would be appreciated, but none are required — we will invest in training you in the areas that interest you. If you've never touched a PLC and you want to learn, we'll teach you. If you've never welded and you want to, we'll teach you that too. The same applies to electrical, HVAC, industrial maintenance, machining, lab work, instrumentation, and any of the engineering disciplines we touch.

 This is a small team, and the work varies. A typical week could include any of:

 - Bench-testing materials and process variables — mix designs, dissolution kinetics, bond tests, durability characterization
 - Building and commissioning equipment — mixers, conveyors, presses, pumps, ovens, control panels, fixtures
 - Running batch trials at increasing scale (from gram-scale lab to hundreds-of-kilograms pilot batches) and characterizing the results
 - Troubleshooting equipment and process issues — root-causing what went wrong, fixing it, and writing down what we learned
 - Fabricating tooling and one-off parts
 - Documenting work — written reports, data logs, photos, sketches, drawing markups
 - Working with outside vendors on equipment selection, fab, and commissioning
 - Supporting third-party certification (ICC-ES) testing and documentation

Skills we'd love you to have or want to grow into

 - Welding — MIG, TIG, stick
 - Electrical — motor controls, wiring, panel build, troubleshooting
 - PLC programming — Automation Direct, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, or code-native (Rust / UniPi) approaches
 - HVAC — refrigeration, ductwork, controls
 - Industrial maintenance — mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, alignment, bearings, drives
 - Engineering disciplines — chemical, mechanical, controls, structural, civil, process
 - Fabrication & machining — lathe, mill, drill press, bender, plasma, hand tools
 - CAD — Inventor, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, or similar
 - Lab work — titration, particle sizing, viscometry, microscopy, sample prep, instrument calibration
 - Materials handling — concrete, fibers, powders, slurries