Storion Energy is a joint venture between Stryten Energy and Largo inc. and is at the forefront of commercializing Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFBs) within the United States. Largo is a vanadium mining company with the only western-friendly vanadium mine in the world, located in Brazil. Stryten is a leading lead-acid battery manufacturer supplying energy storage solutions to the automotive, industrial, and stationary power markets.

Storion Energy was formed from the VRFB divisions of each company and is focused on supplying specialty VRFB components to the long duration energy storage (LDES) market. We are uniquely positioned to drive down costs to allow new entrants into the flow battery market, which will drive competition with lithium based LDES products.

VRFB LDES products help address renewable energy intermittency issues, provide grid resiliency, and enable a cleaner electricity grid.

The Chemical Engineering Co-op will support Storion’s product development team with a focus on our electrochemistry development needs. This individual will support our lab-scale and pilot-scale systems which may include investigating performance of our VRFB cells and stacks, determining electrolyte properties and performance, developing processing techniques and operations for eventual scale-up, and working on other projects as needs arise.
Storion’s product development facility is located in Wilmington, MA and we are seeking a full-time co-op to support our cutting edge product development efforts. This is an in-person role and the successful candidate is expected to be in the office 5 days per week.
Essential functions may include:

• Working on product development
• Hands on testing in the electrochemical lab and shop floor
• Operation of pilot scale equipment and machinery
• Data collection, processing, and analysis
• Chemical Process design, control, and operation development
• Kinetics determination and modeling
• Unit operation design/equipment specification
• Process documentation
• Statistical process control
• Root cause analysis
• Material compatibility testing
• Many more exciting and challenging experiences

• Working towards BS in Chemical Engineering or BA/BS in Chemistry
• Minimum GPA of 3.0
• You must have housing and transportation to our Wilmington, MA location. Public transportation is not available to our office.
• You must be able and willing to work with battery electrolyte, which is acidic and requires wearing PPE (lab coat, gloves, safety glasses or goggles, and other job-specific PPE)
• Ability to lift 30-pound boxes of parts

We expect our co-ops to be hands on self-starters who can take a project from start to finish with ease. The successful candidate should already have excellent problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills that can be applied to cross-functional teams. The individual should be skilled at problem identification, prototyping and iterative design, validation testing, and troubleshooting.

Our environment is casual but professional and our co-op's are exposed to senior level leaders. We don’t want our co-op's to sit on the sidelines – we want you to challenge us and provide creative ways to approach projects. As a teammate, you will gain hands-on experience working on meaningful projects, network with engineers across the organization, learn what it is like to be an engineer at Storion Energy, and finally, make a lasting impact while developing lifelong skills and competencies to elevate your future career.

Storion Energy is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.