TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex technical challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market.
We invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across a wide range of industries – including healthcare, life science, energy, and communications – and at the intersection of biology, physical science and engineering.
Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work.
We’re looking for a creative, hands-on Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Energy & Process Technologies team.
The transition to a more sustainable future depends on turning new ideas into practical technologies Our EPT team develops products that help decarbonise industry, transform the way chemicals are made, and accelerate the adoption of modern energy-generation technologies. By combining deep scientific expertise in electrochemistry and power electronics with systems, chemical, and product engineering, we deliver complex, commercially viable solutions for our ambitious clients.
The role
As a Mechanical Design Engineer at TTP you'll play a key role in concept development and evolution of detailed design solutions using CAD. You'll be able to challenge your technical knowledge following very precise mechanical requirements for complex electromechanical hardware. Often working on multiple projects simultaneously, you'll be trusted to manage your own time to deliver your design work to client timelines.
If you're a Design Engineer who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment, enjoys tackling complex challenges and approaches design with precision and creativity, then we’re looking for you.
You'll be an experienced Mechanical Designer with excellent design capabilities, a wider understanding of the electromechanical considerations of product development and an innovative approach to problem solving.
You’ll bring:
Highly proficient in 3D CAD (ideally including SolidWorks; OnShape would be an advantage)
Familiarity with assembly jigs and test equipment
Experience using ideation methods (ideally including mind-mapping, brainstorming, functional analysis, and/or morphological analysis)
Ability to present ideas through sketches, animations, photorealistic renderings and rapid prototyping
Knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing techniques
Ability to perform tolerance analysis on parts and assemblies
Experience of sourcing off-the-shelf and custom parts and building relationships with and managing suppliers
Excellent time management skills and ability to balance priorities of multiple projects
Hands-on ability to build, test and troubleshoot
Experience contributing to dFMEA and/or pFMEA documents would be an advantage
Ability to design plastic injection moulded parts would be an advantage
Knowledge of designing electrochemical stacks (flow battery, electrolyser etc.) would be useful, but not essential
Benefits
TTP is an employee-owned business, based at TTP Campus in Melbourn, just 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our purpose-built, sustainable offices and laboratories are set in green surroundings, creating an inspiring environment for innovation. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work.
Our employee benefits include:
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At TTP we work with start-ups through to big corporates, across multiple sectors, to solve challenging problems steeped in technology. By combining passion and flexibility with a deep expertise in science, engineering, and design, we help our clients unlock opportunities and make brilliant things happen.
We’re independent, we’re free-thinkers and we’re agile to the core, and for nearly 40 years it’s helped us find better solutions faster – time and time again. We take a multidisciplinary approach, and our teams are set up around the project needs, which means we can tackle your problem holistically from the start. What’s more, we’ll be on your side and work with you as one team, and we’ll want the project to succeed as much as you do.
