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Bladon is a dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product working towards a lower carbon future for power generation. Based in our newly-built combined manufacturing and development facility, located in the West Midlands with great transport links, we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base.

At Bladon, we believe every role is vital to our success. Our team is fully committed to covering all areas within the business, actively liaising with all departments daily & being a key department in supporting the business decisions.

As the business expands and takes on new challenges, we are looking for individuals who are open-minded, committed to Bladon and our vision and have the passion to evolve with the business.

Purpose of Role

• Lead PCB layout activities within the Electronics team. Design PCBs for our power and control boards and guide, review and approve all PCB layout activities performed by other team members or external resources.
• Manage the use of the Altium Design toolset within the Electronics team; defining the processes and standards to be followed and managing the central component database.

Key responsibilities

• Undertake schematic and PCB design and modifications in Altium Designer to support the team’s development of power and control boards, test hardware, prototypes, etc.
• Manage the use of the Altium Design toolset and cloud-based Altium 365 within the Electronics team. Define and apply the procedures and standards to be applied to all PCB design activities. Ensure all released designs are of high quality and optimised for high-volume manufacturing processes.
• Guide, direct, review and approve all component part creation, schematic capture, BOM generation and PCB layout activities within the Electronics team.
• Manage and maintain the centralised component library used across all Bladon PCB designs, ensuring proper control over the quality and correctness of all utilised component symbols, footprints and part numbers.
• Manage project data for all PCB designs, the generation of manufacturing data and its formal release into the company’s document management system.
• Work with PCB vendors and manufacturing partners to understand and optimise PCB blank cost and use Design for Manufacture tools and techniques to identify and resolve potential manufacturing issues. Act as a subject-matter expert within the team.
• Act as the primary interface to the mechanical design team to determine all PCB mounting arrangements, mechanical packaging and thermal management aspects. Establish efficient working practices for transfer of design information.
• Manage the recruitment and activities of any additional PCB design resources that may need to be engaged.

What you'll get from us:

• Hybrid working with set office days/ Early finish Fridays (Role dependant).
• Opportunity to develop skill set in a growing organisation with exposure to senior management from the outset.
• Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product.
• A supportive, friendly, fast-paced, and energetic team environment.
• The opportunity to add real value and play a critical part in our evolving business.
• Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company.
• Pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, including Bank Holidays. (3 days to be used for Christmas Closure)
• Share options.
• Holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Company contractual Sick pay.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Eyecare vouchers.

What we’re looking for:

• Must have right to work in the UK.
• Significant (> 5 years) experience in design and development of Printed Circuit Boards, encompassing high current/high power, as well as small signal and microprocessor-based board designs. Will ideally understand the operation of such circuits and the layout features that are required to optimise their function such as voltage isolation, Design for EMC, etc.
• Must have significant experience in use of Altium Designer - schematic capture, PCB layout, component generation and library management. Experience of Altium 365 an advantage.
• Must be able to demonstrate detailed knowledge of the manufacturing processes for construction of various types of PCB blank, and how this is controlled and driven from the PCB design data.
• Must have detailed working knowledge of the PCB assembly process in a high-volume, quality-driven manufacturing environment, with strong knowledge of the key principles of Design for Manufacture and Design for Test, and able to apply these effectively to guide and control PCB design activities.
• Must have experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams with electronic design engineers, mechanical engineers and others.
• Will ideally have held responsibility to define and manage the PCB layout process and standards for an organisation, including the component library management function.

Bladon is a dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product working towards a lower carbon future for power generation. Based in our newly built combined manufacturing and development facility, conveniently located in the West Midlands with great transport links, we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base.

At Bladon, we believe every role is vital to our success. Our team is fully committed to covering all areas within the business, actively liaising with all departments daily & being a key department in supporting the business decisions.

As the business expands and takes on new challenges, we are looking for individuals who are open minded, committed to Bladon and our vision and have the passion to evolve with the business.

Purpose of Role

The ultimate owner for all system level functionality and performance. responsible to deliver a stable functioning system into design verification. A recognised expert in the product, owning and responsible to lead investigation and resolution on all reported system level issues. Leading the construction of the product technical file, and securing approval at engineering sign off gateway. Providing system level expertise to assist sales, commercial, service, test, and certification teams in the delivery of their own responsibilities.

Key responsibilities 

• Support systems engineering in the high-level architecture design, through leading system level analysis activities necessary to decompose system level performance targets to lower-level targets for each of the involved sub-systems.
• Working closely with senior managers and team leads within the engineering function, ensure that the first systems delivered into test achieve the necessary level of functionality and robustness to support functional testing, certification, and validation under the supervision of the product development function.
• Where there are functionality gaps and/or robustness issues in the delivered product, ensure suitable containments and corrective actions are identified and implemented so as to allow the test and certification activities to continue without interruption.
• Responsible to define all required system level design verification, test & certification activities, including generation of test specifications & test methods.
• Supporting execution of the design verification phase, responsible to lead investigation and resolution of all system level functionality and/or performance issues.
• To own the product technical file, working closely with Bladon test engineers and external test houses to obtain and assemble all necessary supporting evidence of design verification, test, and certification activities, and proposing for approval by the Technical Director. Responsible ensure the technical file is maintained and remains valid in the event of any product changes being fed through after the initial engineering sign-off.
• To be a recognised expert in the product, it’s construction, different modes of operation, and expected behaviours both in normal operation and under fault conditions. To be the “go to” technical expert when service engineers need guidance or support to investigate and resolve issues on customer sites, or when sales teams need support to answer enquiries on the capability of the Bladon MTG, and compatibility with customer installations.

What you'll get from us:

• Hybrid working with set office days/ Early finish Fridays (Role dependant).
• Opportunity to develop skill set in a growing organisation with exposure to senior management from the outset.
• Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product.
• A supportive, friendly, fast paced, and energetic team environment.
• The opportunity to add real value and play a critical part in our evolving business.
• Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company.
• Pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, including Bank Holidays. (3 days to be used for Christmas Closure)
• Share options.
• Holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Company contractual Sick pay.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Eyecare vouchers.

What we’re looking for:

• A degree (or equivalent) in a systems or electronics engineering discipline
• Demonstrable strength and depth in the application of structured problem-solving techniques in complex products with significant electrical and electronic systems content. Will be a strong advocate and promoter for data driven decision making.
• At least five years’ experience working in a hands-on systems integration and/or test & fault-finding role, for example in an automotive tier one supplier, or OEM environment.
• Experience in at least one of the following areas: power electronics, electric drives, electric drive control, gas turbine, gas turbine control, hybrid vehicles.
• Must have excellent communication skills, with track record of establishing and driving collaboration across multi-disciplined teams, to create technical solutions to difficult and complex engineering problems.
• Must have right to work in the UK.

Bladon is a dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product working towards a lower carbon future for power generation. Based in our newly built combined manufacturing and development facility, conveniently located in the West Midlands with great transport links, we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base.

If you are an experienced Senior Test Engineer who is always ready to react to issues as they arise; who is excited to be able to support development of highly innovative products, we have the perfect opportunity for you. We are a dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to join our growing Product Development Test Department.

At Bladon, we recognise our Test team as vital to our success. Our team is fully committed to performing component, subsystem and whole system level testing for Bladon’s unique gas turbine driven electrical generator. As a Senior Test Engineer, you will be responsible for enabling a wide variety of R&D and V&V test activities to support new product introduction and subsystem testing. We are looking for a candidate who can utilise the wide range of skillsets of the Test Engineers within the department, in a collaborative approach, to assist Bladon in achieving our goals. In support of this, you may be expected to represent the Test Department in meetings with our senior management and executive leadership teams.

The competitive and fast-paced nature of our technology development requires the constant improvement of our capabilities. Candidates will be expected to have significant demonstrable experience in design, build and commissioning of new test rigs and facilities in-house, sourcing external capability and will be experienced in sourcing and integrating new cutting-edge measurement technology.

The ideal candidate will have experience in calibration, installation, and utilisation of instrumentation and DAQ systems. We are looking for an individual who has a hands-on approach, a flexible can-do attitude, and is constantly looking for ways to optimize and improve test capability and methods.

As a Senior Test Engineer at Bladon Micro Turbine, you can expect continuous opportunities to influence development and make a visible impact on the products we produce. If you are looking to work alongside experts in their fields and have active participation in design improvement proposals, please get in touch.

As the business expands and takes on new challenges, we are looking for individuals who are open minded, committed to Bladon and our vision and have the passion to evolve with the business.

What you'll get from us:

•            Opportunity to engage with a wide range of advanced electrical and mechanical technologies and learn new skills associated with them.

•            Be part of developing a revolutionary new product.

•            A supportive, fast paced and energetic team environment.

•            The opportunity to add real value and play a critical part in our evolving business.

•            Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company.

•            Competitive salary.

•            Pension contribution.

•            Life assurance.

•            25 days holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays.

•            Due to the nature of the role, you are required to attend the facility 5 days a week

Key Responsibilities

•            Responsible for the design, development, commissioning and maintenance of new test rigs, facilities and capability including responsibility for their delivery.

•            Support a team of skilled Test Engineers, assisting in their career and skills development.

•            To perform a variety of testing on microturbine gensets. This includes, but is not limited to:

o            Performance Testing

o            Endurance and Reliability Testing

o            Customer validation testing, such as testing the interaction of our product with customer equipment

o            Research and Development into new product introductions, and solutions to problems, cost down, product improvement etc

o            Product investigations

•            Fault finding and diagnosis of problems.

•            Manage data, configuration details and results in a highly organised manner.

•            Reporting by writing detailed technical test reports.

What we’re looking for:

•            A passionate and dedicated Senior Engineer with strong technical grounding.

•            Must have right to work in the UK

•            Minimum of 5 years experience in a test engineering role.

•            Demonstrable experience supporting and guiding other engineers to meet their objectives.

•            Minimum 2:1 Hons degree (or equivalent) in Electronic, Electrical, Mechanical or Control related field

•            Candidates shall have demonstrable history of capability improvement in a test or development environment.

•            It is essential that applicants have significant hands-on experience in product level testing as this role incorporates a substantial hands-on element. Persons with only experience of software or Hardware in the Loop laboratory testing will likely not be suitable for this role.

•            Can demonstrate some experience in working with software based products & systems.

•            A desire for ‘hands on’ work, and to collaborate within a highly qualified and driven team.

•            Comfortable with some periods of kneeling and working outdoors.

•            A genuine passion for engineering. This will be explored during the interview.

•            Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Bladon has an exciting opportunity for a Performance Engineer to join our Powerplant Team. As a This is a fantastic opportunity for a graduate looking for their first career role.

As the Performance Engineer you will complete data analysis and performance analysis for the Engineering function to aid the success of the business. Working with cross functional departments related to performance attributes ensuring efficiency and power requirements are adhered to.

You will be based in our new purpose-built manufacturing and development facility, conveniently located in the West Midlands with great transport links, where we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base.

The Successful Candidate will:

• Demonstrate data driven decision making
• Have excellent communication skills
• Have excellent Time management and prioritisation
• Problem solving abilities
• Have a collaborate approach

What you'll get from us:

• Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product
• ​A supportive, fast paced, and energetic team environment.
• The opportunity to add real value and play a critical part in our evolving business
• Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company
• Competitive salary
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 25 days holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays
• Access to either Hybrid working or Early Finish Friday
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Key Responsibilities

• Work cross functionally with other teams and support the development of system performance models and control system logic

• Support the assessment and optimisation of product performance on both high system and subsystem level

• Support the definition of verification and validation test plans as well as the pass / fail criteria

• Support testing activities, ensuring the test data is adequate for the purpose of the test

• Process and analyse test data and report in a clear and concise manner

What we’re looking for:

• Degree or equivalent in an Engineering discipline

• Knowledge of Gas Turbine cycles, architectures and operation.

• Experience in Scripting in MATLAB/Simulink and or Python

• Experience in data processing and analysis