Climate / Life-Support Engineer
Owns thermal and atmospheric control and the off-grid power autonomy that keeps the League's facilities running.
Role Summary
The Climate / Life-Support Engineer owns thermal and atmospheric control across the League's facilities and the Abyssal Holding pressure-cascade — the chillers, heaters, dissolved-gas balance, and the power autonomy that keeps it all running off-grid and out of sight. Under the Chief Engineer, the role manages the high-pressure life-support cascade and its safety interlocks, holds power generation, storage, and load-shedding logic in reserve against grid loss, and rehearses the failure-mode response for the day a loop drops. The role is accountable for environments where a thermal excursion or a gas imbalance is measured in animal lives and a power failure can cascade through every system at once. Steady hands during a cascade event are the difference between a logged anomaly and a catastrophe.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain chillers, heaters, and thermal loops for every holding and breeding system, holding setpoints within survivable bands.
- Manage the Abyssal Holding pressure-cascade and its safety interlocks, certifying interlock function before each occupancy.
- Maintain power autonomy — generation, storage, and load-shedding logic — to ride through grid loss without life-support interruption.
- Monitor and balance dissolved-gas and atmospheric parameters across systems in coordination with Biosystems and Husbandry.
- Plan, document, and rehearse failure-mode response for thermal, gas, and power loss, leading the drill program.
- Hold the preventive-maintenance and spares record for all climate and power hardware, declaring systems fit before reliance.
Required Qualifications
- HVAC-R, cryogenic, or pressure-systems engineering experience.
- Familiarity with off-grid power generation and storage.
- Understanding of high-pressure life-support and interlock safety.
- Disciplined preventive-maintenance and failure-planning practice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hyperbaric or deep-holding pressure systems.
- Microgrid, battery, and load-shedding control experience.
- Dissolved-gas and atmospheric-balance instrumentation skills.
- Steady hands and a record of sound judgment during system events.
Certifications
Curricula are delivered through the Training Academy; currency is tracked on the HR training matrix.
| Certification | Status at Hire | Renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Pressure-Systems & Interlock Safety | Required | Annual |
| HVAC-R / Refrigerant Handling | Required ≤ 60 d | 24 months |
| Off-Grid Power & Electrical Safety | Required | 24 months |
| Abyssal Holding Cascade Operation | Preferred | Annual |
Physical & Hazard Requirements
- Work safely with high-pressure cascades, refrigerants, and high-voltage power.
- Pass annual pressure-systems and electrical-safety medical.
- Respond on-call to thermal, gas, and power events at any hour.
- Hold composure and protocol during cascade or power-loss events.
Compensation Band
Career Path
The Climate / Life-Support Engineer (O-3) advances toward Chief Engineer (O-5) or laterals to the Biosystems Engineer for the water-systems track. The role partners with Husbandry on environmental bands and supports Restoration with off-grid infrastructure for release sites.
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