WMC provides innovative resource solutions for the global energy transition, supporting a sustainable, stable and efficient low carbon economy. As an independent intermediary, WMC offers long-term supply, offtake, marketing, financing and portfolio management solutions in nuclear fuel and battery materials to a global client base (including major utilities, industrial players and battery manufacturers), alongside asset development through a subsidiary. WMC is the world’s largest nuclear fuel intermediary and a trusted partner to energy-transition leaders. WMC is privately-owned, headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Liminal drives WMC Group’s asset development as an integrated partner. WMC and Liminal work together across global critical material value chains. WMC manages the physical trade of commodities, delivering feedstock and semi-finished products to market, and provides funding solutions and risk management services to counterparties. Liminal invests in existing assets and develops processing facilities, leveraging its comprehensive technical and project finance capabilities to effectively realize and operate the key assets to drive these value chains forward.
By sharing relationships, infrastructure and expertise, WMC and Liminal offer broader solutions, anticipate market shifts, manage risk jointly and operate more efficiently.
As Associate Project Developer, you will take Liminal’s projects to the next level, developing assets such as a battery recycling facility in The Netherlands and a Cobalt refinery in Canada. For these and prospective projects, you will do market research and technical analysis (with a focus on chemical engineering). To present your findings to your colleagues and pitch the projects to investors, you will create clear memoranda, crisp presentations, marketing materials, as well as directly engage with customers. As your experience grows, you will manage your own workstreams for the projects. From doing subsidy applications, writing investment memorandums and doing permitting checks to quality assurance on process equipment, you will get experience with a wide variety of work.
• Providing support in a range of project development activities, including technical, commercial, financial, regulatory, and market analysis, for current and prospective projects and presenting findings through various mediums
• Building and maintaining relationships with prospective feedstock providers, off-takers, and joint venture partners, including assisting in the preparation of related legal agreements
• Drafting, together with management, clear business cases and investment memorandums for potential investors
• Communicating directly and proactively with customers and other internal and external stakeholders to advance project-related work and build external relationships
• Contributing to feasibility studies and subsidy applications as required
• As your experience increases, you will gradually get more ownership of managing individual workstreams in relation to project development
• Managing a high degree of autonomy, with the expectation that you will work in the weekly project flows
• Master of Science degree in natural sciences, engineering or finance with proven academic excellence
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Proven ability to work in a self-starting, structured and responsible manner
• Strong presentation skills and communication skills, excellent oral and written command of English
• Strong affinity with relationship building
• Ability to adapt to a highly dynamic start-up/scale-up environment with evolving priorities and projects
Please submit your cover letter, educational records and resume. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis. We thank all candidates for applying; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
For questions concerning the position, please email:
info@wmcgroup.com
