Chemical Laboratory Technician (m/f/d) in Hydrometallurgy for Battery Recycling

• Your mission
• You independently plan and conduct laboratory trials and experiments for our research, development, and process optimization activities.
• You carefully and traceably document experimental procedures, measurement results, and evaluations.
• You analyze experimental results, identify root causes of errors, and support the optimization of chemical processes in our research line.
• You operate, monitor, and maintain laboratory and experimental setups, as well as the equipment used, ensuring smooth day-to-day laboratory operations.
• You support activities in our pilot plant and work closely with the neighboring teams in research, development, and production.
• You support analytical activities through the proper preparation of samples.
• You actively contribute to compliance with and the continuous development of our safety standards — safety is our highest priority.
• You contribute your own ideas to continuously improve workflows, methods, and processes in the laboratory and pilot plant.

Your profile

• You have completed vocational training as a chemical laboratory technician or hold an equivalent qualification.
• You have experience conducting chemical laboratory experiments and several years of practical laboratory experience.
• You have practical experience handling laboratory equipment; experience with analytical instruments is an advantage.
• You have a good understanding of documenting experimental procedures and measurement results and can support the evaluation of results.
• Ideally, you have initial experience with analytical methods, such as spectroscopic techniques like ICP or ion chromatography techniques like IC.
• You have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• You work independently and responsibly, with a strong focus on quality and safety.
• You are a team player and enjoy working in a dynamic environment with various interfaces and stakeholders.
• Good German and English skills complete your profile.

Why us?

• You take ownership from day one
• after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
• You work on something that truly matters
• with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
• You're part of a mission-driven team
• in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
• You work to the highest standards
• we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
• You grow with us
• at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.

About us cylib is a German battery recycling company that emerged from research at RWTH Aachen University in 2022.

With an integrated network of sites, we bring together research and development at our headquarters in Aachen, dismantling and mechanical processing in Wernberg-Köblitz, and hydrometallurgical processing in Dormagen (in ramp-up).

Our goal: building a resilient European value chain through the recovery of high-quality materials for sustainable batteries.

With our innovative OLi C technology (Optimized Lithium and Graphite Recovery), we recover over 90% of the contained raw materials – with a CO 2 footprint that is 80% lower than conventional processes. Towards the realization of a true circular economy in the European market.

Interested?

Please upload your documents (a cover letter is not necessay) and answer the questions in the application form.

We look forward to receiving your application!