Heavy Equipment Mechanic

Running Tide is an ocean technology company built to tackle humanity's most urgent challenge: climate change. We build cutting-edge solutions that integrate engineered and biological systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and secure food systems. Our multidisciplinary team of world-class scientists, engineers, and maritime operators is working as fast as possible while the world is burning.
Running Tide is seeking a versatile, driven, flexible heavy equipment mechanic to manage and oversee our machinery maintenance and troubleshooting at our Iceland-based production operation. The mechanic will work with the local and global operations team to ensure efficiency in the delivery of our ready-to-deploy carbon removal systems.
You will be responsible for day-to-day equipment maintenance and repair, service interval planning, overhaul/heavy repair planning, inventory control, a budget and will be making decisions and recommendations on best ways to reach our goals. Working with owned and leased equipment including diesel powered wheel loaders, fixed hydraulically-powered (diesel and electric) mixers, conveyor systems, wood grinders, dump trucks and lifting equipment.

Responsible For:

• All aspects of maintaining an array of heavy construction equipment.
• Consistently meeting on-line/on-time goals and continuously improving system efficiency.
• Reporting and making recommendations related to problems, throughput, bottlenecks.
• Working with local contractors and vendors to partner and managing those relationships.
• Forecasting and keeping equipment maintenance schedules and parts inventories.
• Keeping our operations within budget.
• Optimizing our system by partnering with the global operations team to define and implement improvements.
• Keeping a constantly safe and healthy work environment. Implementing and improving safety protocols and processes

You:

• Have experience maintaining and repairing a broad range of heavy construction equipment.
• Have experience managing light inventory.
• Can operate in a fast changing environment
• Are creative and figure out ways to get the thing done, even though it isn’t perfect
• Want to do your part in helping fight the climate crisis
• Speak English well and preferably also Icelandic
• Understand that this is a first-phase startup operation, will be far from perfect, and are eager to help in the transition to a permanent, steady-state operation.

Our teams operate with utmost persistence. We are tackling the world’s most difficult and important problems, and we are unwavering in our motivation to find a solution. At our core, we are innovators driven to do "more good" rather than "less bad" in the world.
Running Tide is committed to building a diverse team, bringing as many possible perspectives to bear on the unprecedented challenges facing our planet. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds  can come to do their best work.