Facilities Engineer

Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon by safely injecting organic waste ultra-deep underground, permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas, Vaulted has a growing team of 70+ people and signed the second-largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025.

About the Role

The Facilities Engineer develops the surface infrastructure supporting injection operations, including site grading, earthwork, foundations, roads, drainage, pipelines, utilities, and surface facilities for receiving, storing, and handling waste. This role is critical in identifying, planning, and designing solutions for utilities to remote sites, including power and water supply. The Facilities Engineer takes greenfield sites from civil concept through permit-ready design and into construction support, owning the surface-facility design basis and ensuring infrastructure performs to specifications.

Every Vaulted Deep site is greenfield—often remote with limited existing power, water, and road access—requiring surface infrastructure to be designed from the ground up. This role ensures design repeatability across a growing, multi-project pipeline: 10+ opportunities in origination, 3 in active development, targeting three-plus projects under construction within two years. Surface-facility design quality at key development gates determines whether a project reaches Final Investment Decision with a permit-ready design and reliable cost estimate.

Responsibilities

• Develop civil and surface-facility design from FEL-1 screening through FEL-3 permit-ready design.
• Own grading, earthwork, foundations, roads, drainage, and site layout for greenfield sites.
• Design pipelines, utilities, and remote power and water development.
• Specify pumps, tanks, electrical equipment, and waste handling/storage areas.
• Support truck-traffic, offloading, and site-access design.
• Provide engineering input to permit applications in partnership with Regulatory.
• Support cost estimating (Class 5 through Class 2) for surface scope.
• Provide engineering support through procurement, construction, and commissioning.

Leadership

This is an individual-contributor role reporting to the Director of Engineering. The Facilities Engineer directs civil and facility-design consultants and reviews EPC/FEED deliverables on a project basis. Partners with Geoscience on wellsite integration, with Permitting & Regulatory on permit design content, and with the PMO on cost and schedule. Presents surface-facility readiness at stage-gate reviews.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of engineering experience developing greenfield infrastructure projects.
• Direct experience with grading, earthwork, foundations, roads, pipelines, utilities, and drainage.
• Experience designing modest surface facilities—pumps, tanks, electrical equipment, and storage areas.
• Familiarity with remote utility development, including power and water.
• Bachelor's degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering preferred, with design and construction experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oil & gas or midstream facility experience (preferred, not required).
• Experience with waste handling, offloading, and truck-traffic design.
• Exposure to environmental permitting-driven design (UIC, NPDES, air, stormwater).
• PE registration (Texas or reciprocal state).

Skills

Technical Competencies

• Civil/site design: grading, earthwork, drainage, roads, and foundations.
• Surface facility design: pumps, tanks, electrical equipment, and maintenance facilities.
• Pipeline and utility routing and remote power/water development.
• Waste handling, offloading, and storage-area layout.
• Cost estimating across the AACE Class 5–2 stage-gated framework.

Commercial & Business Competencies

• Translates surface-design decisions into CAPEX/OPEX impact for project economics.
• Understands how design maturity gates capital release (Origination → Pre-FEED → FEED/Permitting → FID → Construction → Startup).
• Supports defensible cost estimates and contingency for the surface scope.
• Coordinates site utilities and civil scope with Commercial & Land.