Senior Engineer

Job description

Job Title: Senior Engineer
Reporting to: Head of Prototype Development
Salary: 45,000 - 50,000

The company's goal is to develop high energy density, low cost, low environmental impact electrical energy storage devices that will help create a clean and sustainable global energy and transportation system.

Objective of role:

This role would suit a chemical / mechanical engineer who is interested in applying engineering principles to scale processes and create a new energy storage system.

The Senior Development Engineer role will:

Lead testing work on new energy storage system prototypes, analyse the resulting data and provide feedback into the mechanical engineer.

Develop an understanding of core principles of our current energy storage technology and create experiments to look for improvements, such as trailing new materials, form factors or concept designs.

Develop a pilot line manufacturing process for new prototypes and test for repeat ability

Be part of the scale-up process, utilising new processes or materials from research and testing them in larger cell formats, analysing performance and feeding back into the research team

Key Activities & Responsibilities

Provide development expertise within a multi-disciplinary development team

Liaise with, and effectively support, Research scientists engaged in polymer and electrochemistry research

Contributing to various R&D programs across the company

Key Relationships & Interfaces

Internal:

Head of Prototype Development

Director of Research and Development

Research Group Leader and wider Research Team

CEO

Management team and colleagues

External:

Suppliers

Other external influencers as appropriate

Person Specification

Engineering, Bachelors or Masters degree essential, such as chemical, mechanical or electro-mechanical engineering

A minimum of 4 years' experience in a relevant R&D environment

Demonstratable hands-on engineering skillset coupled with a technical capability to understand chemical systems and manufacturing processes

Great teamwork and communication skills

Desire to work in a dynamic start-up R&D environment with early-stage technology

Experience with batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, electrolysers or other energy storage and conversion technologies is advantageous but not essential.

Experience working with electronic systems, such as sensors, testing equipment or chemical process development