Careers

Bladon have an exciting opportunity for an Engine & Recuperator Lead to join our high performing Power Plant Team. You will have a passion for guiding a team in the design and development of state-of-the art engine and recuperator systems to support our next generation micro-turbine generator sets.

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. 

This is a key role within the engineering organisation, where you will have the opportunity to influence the design of our second-generation product through all phases of its development, from concept through to production, building on Bladon’s existing micro-turbine technologies, which are already extensively proven in some of the most extreme environments across the globe.

Reporting to the Power Plant Senior Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of advanced engine & recuperator systems designed to significantly increase our portfolio breadth in power and fuel efficiency together with increased use of Biofuels to enhance our green credentials.

You will identify and drive new technologies in design and manufacture, to produce optimum designs to the highest quality, and at the right cost to meet our customer & business requirements, directly contributing to the overall business success.

The Candidate

As Engine and Recuperator Lead, you will be a natural problem solver with the passion and drive to lead a high performing team to create and deliver world class products. 

You will be someone who takes a hands-on approach and is dedicated to continuous improvement. 

Your technical expertise will be critical to the role and supported by your leadership qualities where you will be able to demonstrate a values-based approach to leadership, with a strong behavioural set, including strategic thinking, good judgement, influencing and motivating. 

The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of turbomachinery and heat exchangers and have the drive to take concepts from an idea to volume production.

If you are looking for a challenge and the ability to contribute to our unique product, please get in touch!

What you'll get from us:

• Ownership and responsibility for all engine & recuperator developments.
• Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product.
• Working within 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 DOE
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc. Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Annual performance bonus
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Sick pay
• Share options
• Employee referral scheme

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Lead the team to ensure delivery of sub-system requirements

• Collaboration with peers in lead roles and leading your own team to ensure component delivery of turbo machinery and recuperator assembly.

• Responsible for the integration of the sub-system parts and verification to ensure requirements are met

• Engineering ownership for investigation and resolution of issues arising during development 

• Continuous professional development for yourself and your team members

• Continued Technology Development in the disciplines of Turbomachinery and recuperators.

What we’re looking for:

• Must have right to work in the UK

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering discipline

• Technical background in turbo machinery design & analysis or recuperator/heat exchanger design preferred.

• Data driven decision making

• Time management and prioritisation

• Ability to motivate and drive performance within your team.

Bladon have an exciting opportunity for a passionate leader to help grow and develop a high performing Mechanical and Analysis team, responsible for the design of our unique micro-turbine based generator sets. We are based in our newly built combined 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. This is a newly created role, for a motivated and inquisitive individual to join our highly vertically integrated business, where you will be able to influence our second-generation product through all phases of its development, from concept through to production, building on the technologies already extensively proven in some of the most extreme environments across the globe.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will be responsible for driving new technology, strategy, performance and the continued development of the team, to ensure the continued success of producing optimum designs to the highest quality, and at the right cost to meet our customer & business requirements, contributing to the overall business success.

The Candidate

As Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager, you will be a natural problem solver with passion to deliver, someone who takes a hands-on approach and is dedicated to continuous improvement.

Leadership is a critical aspect of this role and we are looking for someone who is able to demonstrate a values-based approach to leadership. With a strong behavioural set, including role modelling, strategic thinking, effective decision making, good judgement, influencing and motivating.

The successful candidate will have a technical background in Mechanical Engineering or Analysis, and the ability to apply their expertise successfully alongside making strategic leadership decisions, resulting in optimised team performance and development.

If you are looking for an opportunity to convert strategy into action, please get in touch!

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
• Health rewards and discounts 
• Competitive salary DOE
• Pension contribution
• 4x Life assurance
• 33 days holiday entitlement, including Bank Holidays
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Sick pay
• Share options
• Employee referral scheme

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Develop strategies and technology to the correct TR levels, to meet the development Road Map
• Lead the team to ensure delivery of the system requirements
• Develop, manage and Empower your teams to take accountability for their part of the system, providing support, mentoring, feedback, and recognition, devolving requirements to an appropriate level, develop and manage your teams
• Define the appropriate ISO or equivalent engineering standards
• Create a safe working environment and risk assessments
• Ensure effective succession planning, particularly for high impact roles
• Reviewing emerging technologies, methodologies and establishing best practices, to consistently drive down cost whilst maintaining quality, in conjunction with the Head of Engineering

Skills & Experience needed for the role:

• Degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline
• Strong leadership skills
• Technical background in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in turbo machinery or other equivalent products such as turbo chargers
• Experience with analysis and/or design in high stress/high temperature applications
• Strong time management and prioritisation
• Demonstrable experience of owning, driving and delivering design & analysis standards and processes

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 recognise Finance as 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 business decisions. As the business expands and takes on new challenges finance is there to support every step of the way. Common characteristics of our team are adaptability and resourcefulness, enabling us to drive change and to ensure we can keep pace with the business as it grows.

The Candidate

This role is a truly great opportunity for someone who wants to develop their skill set. The role requires someone who can work autonomously and make an instant impact. A degree of gravitas to demonstrate credibility is necessary for interaction with senior management and investors, and professional advisors.

Expect accountability to delivery of objectives. Be prepared to roll sleeves up, recognising stage of development and resources of company in exchange for broad experience and link to high profile tangible product.

You will be a risk taker with inner confidence of your own abilities who will recognise the unique opportunity you have to enhance your career which will benefit you regardless of the ultimate execution of the business plan.

What you'll get from us:

• 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, 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 DOE
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc. Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Annual performance bonus
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Sick pay
• Share options
• Employee referral scheme

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Preparation of budgets and forecasts, including cash flow and working capital management; this will include presenting to the CFO; and the senior exec team.
• Preparation of, and commentary on, monthly management accounts;
• Ownership of balance sheet & all reconciliations;
• Ownership of the reporting to the company parent on a bi-annual basis a part of their consolidation;
• Assisting the Company tax advisor as required, particularly with regard to preparing the annual R&D Tax Credits claim;
• Year-end audit planning / general auditor relationship management;
• Key contact & lead for internal stock takes;
• Build team to support growth of the business e.g. AR / credit control, AP, export management and documentation requirements.
• Supporting & mentoring the cost accountant & accounts payable lead;
• Management & ownership of Fixed Assets including the implementation of the new SAP module;
• Ownership of group Insurance policies, including liaison with the broker;
• Enhance and support the control environment and corporate governance as the business builds towards it’s ambition to IPO.
• There will be scope to be involved in additional project work as it arises.

What we’re looking for:

• Must have right to work in the UK
• Recognised Accountancy qualification – newly qualified /1-5 years PQE.
• Manufacturing experience ideal but not essential.
• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified 

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. We are committed to support and invest in the best talent with a competitive benefits package.

The role

We are looking for a passionate leader to help grow and develop a team of software engineers with skills ranging through embedded C-code for high-speed electric machines, complex mathematical simulation models of turbo-machines to the generation of inverter based output power to drive customer loads.

The software to drive and control the micro-turbine and its associated systems is all written in-house with control of fuel systems and combustion a vital part of the Bladon product; particularly the move towards sustainable fuels, both liquid and gaseous. Additionally, aftermarket support software is becoming an increasingly important part of the role and will complete the full range of software skillsets from high-speed embedded software through to full prognostic and smart diagnostic tools using the on-board telemetry system.

We strive for excellence in all activities, and to allow your team to achieve success you will have access to an extensive set of in-house resources including comprehensive design and analysis tools in addition to dedicated R&D manufacturing and testing facilities; allowing concepts to be developed into solutions and validated at pace.

The Candidate

You will have experience of working in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined team that can release fully validated and robust software to agreed timescales that fulfils the customer needs, be those design, manufacturing or the end customer, all of whom are expecting 100% reliability.

You will have ability to solve complex problems whilst prioritizing the needs of the company, be it future product design, manufacturing issues or in-field customer support.

Through leadership and motivation, you will drive the technical direction of your team’s deliverables as well as coach your team to fuel their professional growth.

If you are looking to work with the best industry standard tools, delivering productivity and reliability and can positively contribute to our multidisciplinary engineering team, all whilst delivering a cleaner future, then get in touch to receive a full job specification and start your journey to an exciting career with Bladon.

Bladon have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electronics Technician to join our Electronics team. We are based in our new purpose-built manufacturing and development facility, located in the West Midlands with great transport links, where we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base.

You will be part of the engineering team responsible for development of high-performance electrical power conversion and control systems. This support role is key to the success of the team; quickly prototyping new design solutions, investigating design and manufacturing issues and developing test equipment and facilities. You will be involved in the development of our next generation motor drive, inverter and DC-DC modules as well as helping to maintain to our current generation power electronics modules deployed in some of the most extreme environments across the globe.

Reporting to the Electronics Lead, your role will involve providing practical support and manufacturing experience to our experienced electronics and power electronics engineers. You will work with software engineers to help them investigate system integration issues and provide support to our manufacturing and customer support teams to identify the root cause of any failures that may occur.

The Candidate

You will have a passion for electronics, excellent practical skills and enjoy collaborating with a wide variety of people.

The ideal candidate will be an Electronics Technician or Support Engineer with several years of experience in manufacture, maintenance and rework of complex electronic assemblies. You will have a good understanding of the functions and uses of a wide range of electronic components and circuits. You should have a structured approach to problem solving and be able to communicate clearly and concisely in person and capture relevant information in technical reports.

What you'll get from us:

• Be part of a company developing a revolutionary new product
• Working within a supportive, fast-paced and energetic team environment
• Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company
• Competitive salary DOE
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc. Bank Holidays
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Assembly and repair of PCB assemblies and electronic equipment including analogue, digital and power circuitry. Soldering of SMD devices, including fine-pitch QFP devices and QFNs, and through-hole parts including large, high-current pins
• Design, assembly, and maintenance of electrical and electronic test fixtures.
• Commissioning and test of PCB assemblies using programming and diagnostic tools, oscilloscopes, and other standard laboratory test equipment
• Ownership of the Electronics lab including establishing and maintaining ESD controls, 5S standards, calibration of test equipment, etc.
• Provide support to engineers in their investigation of module or system-level design issues
• Ordering of components and other material for prototype builds. Management of laboratory stocks of commonly-used components.

What we’re looking for:

• Qualification (HND or equivalent) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or demonstrable equivalent knowledge/expertise.
• Excellent soldering skills across a variety of through-hole and surface-mount components. Ideally familiar with reflow techniques and qualified to relevant IPC quality standards. Able to inspect and identify soldering quality issues on manufactured assemblies.
• Able to diagnose issues with analogue and digital, power and control circuits to component level using design data and laboratory test equipment. Able to design simple circuits to stimulate or sense signals for testing purposes.
• Able to terminate and assemble cables and simple wiring harnesses to a high quality standard
• Familiar with working in high-voltage test environments. Ideally familiar with electrical safety practices and legislation and having experience of manufacture and testing of high voltage/power test equipment.
• Experience working with engineers to provide build, diagnostic and repair support
• Experience in organising and maintaining electronics lab facilities
• Ideally would have experience of using schematic/PCB design tools (especially Altium Designer) to create simple PCB designs

Bladon Jets are currently recruiting for an Experienced Service Engineer, to work within our Customer Support team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative engineering Company and use your skills and extensive knowledge within a supportive, engaging, and fast paced team environment. This is a worldwide customer facing role which requires the ability to communicate with customers and distributors at all levels and play a key part in our evolving business.

Key Responsibilities;

• Local factory based support of micro turbine generators
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) project and infant care programme
• Diagnose electrical and mechanical problems
• Replace mechanical and electrical components
• Produce reports on field issues
•  Carry out installations and commissioning in the field at Customer sites (Africa, UAE, Asia Pacific & India)
• Liaising with factory engineers on field issues
• Working with Customers locally and remotely to understand and rectify problems on a daily basis
•  Ensure compliance with all relevant health and safety standards including producing risk assessments
•  Design and provide field training as required
• Work with Distributors and their technicians in various locations around the world

Qualifications & Experience;

• This role requires you to work and travel alone in different countries therefore the successful candidate must be comfortable with this.
• Qualified to HNC/HND in electrical or mechanical subject - Must have experience in both disciplines
•  Obtained at least 5 years’ experience in a field service environment
• Previous customer facing experience and working within an OEM environment would be advantageous
• Previous experience of training field personnel would be advantageous
• Experience with troubleshooting, failure diagnostics and the ability to analyse system data.
• Knowledge of FTAs and failure reporting systems

What you'll get from us:

• Be part of a company developing a revolutionary new product
• Working within a supportive, fast-paced and energetic team environment
• Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company
• Competitive salary DOE
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc. Bank Holidays
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay 
• Employee referral scheme

Bladon have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Design Engineer with a passion for Design to Lead our Mechanical Design team, supporting the development and design of our unique micro turbine based generator sets. Based in our newly built combined manufacturing and development facility, located in the West Midlands with great transport links, where we develop and manufacture green energy solutions for our international customer base. This is a key role within the engineering organisation, where you will have the opportunity to influence the design of our second-generation product through all phases of its development, from concept through to production, building on Bladon’s existing micro-turbine technologies, which are already extensively proven in some of the most extreme environments across the globe.

Reporting to the Mechanical Engineering Senior Manager and working closely with our component engineers, you will lead the design team responsible for the development of a wide range of components, across all the generator systems, from exterior metal enclosures to our revolutionary Micro-Turbine and Recuperator. You will identify and drive new technologies in design and manufacture, to produce optimum designs to the highest quality, and at the right cost to meet our customer & business requirements, directly contributing to the overall business success.

The Candidate

As the Lead Design Engineer, you will be a natural problem solver with the passion and drive to lead a high performing team to create and deliver world class products.

You will be someone who takes a hands-on approach and is dedicated to continuous improvement. 

Your technical expertise will be critical to the role and supported by your leadership qualities where you will be able to demonstrate a values-based approach to leadership, with a strong behavioural set, including strategic thinking, good judgement, influencing and motivating.

The successful candidate will be an experienced Mechanical Engineer, with a broad range of engineering design experience. This is a hands-on role using your PLM and CAD (Solidworks) skills you will be responsible for the development and rollout of Teamcenter our PLM system, where you will have the opportunity to influence the tools used by all designers, contributing to the overall business

What you'll get from us:

•      Ownership and responsibility for all mechanical design and developments.

•      Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product.

•      Working within 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 DOE

•      Pension contribution.

•      Life assurance.

•      33 days holiday entitlement, including Bank Holidays.

•      Hybrid working with set office days

•      Share options

•      Holiday buy and sell scheme

•      Annual performance bonus

•      Sick pay

• Employee referral scheme

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Lead the team to ensure delivery of sub system requirements
• Devolving requirements to the appropriate level
• Day to day people management e.g. reviewing objectives, team meetings, holiday and absence management.
• Collaboration with peers in lead roles to ensure timely delivery of milestones
• Continuous professional development in technical discipline including, research papers, conferences & supplier engagement and recommendation of how these technologies may apply to the product in the future.
• Adherence to Company policies, Quality, HR etc
• Promote a culture of safe efficient work space
• Engineering ownership of Design FRACAS
• Responsible for the integration of the sub-system parts and verification to ensure requirements are met

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.

The control software to operate the micro-turbine and its associated systems is all written in-house with control of turbo generators, fuel systems, combustion and high power electrical machines a vital part of the Bladon product, particularly with the move towards sustainable fuels, both liquid and gaseous.

You should have experience of working in an agile, multi-disciplined team that can release fully validated and robust software to agreed timescales that fulfils the customer needs, be those design, manufacturing or the end customer, all of whom are expecting 100% reliability and stability.

You should have the ability to solve complex control problems whilst prioritizing the needs of the company, be it future product design, manufacturing issues or in-field customer support.

We strive for excellence in all activities, and you will have access to an extensive set of in-house resources including comprehensive design and analysis tools in addition to dedicated R&D manufacturing and testing facilities; allowing concepts to be developed into solutions and validated at pace.

Bladon are committed to support and invest in the best talent with a competitive benefits package. If you have a passion to join a developing team, solve interesting electromechanical problems and work with the best industry standard tools then get in touch and start your journey to an exciting career with Bladon.

The Lead is responsible for the motivation, leadership, development and performance of the team. The Lead is responsible for the planning, direction and delivery of all Combustion and Fuel System activities to the agreed time, cost and quality requirements, in order to meet Bladon’s business plan and product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the team to ensure delivery of sub system requirements
• Devolving requirements to the appropriate level
• Day to day people management e.g. reviewing objectives, team meetings, holiday and absence management.
• Collaboration with peers in lead roles to ensure timely delivery of the teams milestones
• Continuous professional development in technical discipline including, research papers, conferences & supplier engagement and recommendation of how these technologies may apply to the product in the future.
• Continued Technology Development in the disciplines of combustion and fuel systems
• Adherence to Company policies, Quality, HR etc
•  Promote a culture of safe efficient work space
• Engineering ownership of the teams FRACAS
• Responsible for the integration of the sub-system parts and verification to ensure requirements are met
• Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience Required:
• Degree or equivalent in Engineering discipline
• Skills & Behaviours:
• Strong technical background in fuel and combustion systems design and development for liquid gaseous
• Strong technical background in fuel metering and conditioning systems and their application and use in turbo machinery
• Data driven decision making 
• Excellent communication skills
• Time management and prioritisation
• Problem solving
•  Approachable
• Ability to motivate and drive performance
• Role modelling

What you'll get from us:

• Opportunity to take ownership
• 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 DOE
• Pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme

Bladon Micro Turbine is a world leader in micro gas turbines, a new generation of green and efficient power unit. With its unique expertise and technology, the company is pioneering efforts to bring this breakthrough solution to volume production.

We are currently recruiting for staff to join our dedicated team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative engineering Company and use your skills within a supportive, engaging environment.

7.30am – 4.00pm Monday to Thursday / 7.30am – 12.30pm Friday 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assembly and testing of sub assemblies, micro turbine generators
• Responsible for pre-production and production assembly of units
• Follow assembly drawings for pre-production and Standard Operating Sheets for production
• Completion of build documentation
• Rapid Problem Solving and feedback to engineering on learning
• Continuous improvement ideas and key member of team to implement the defined changes
• Housekeeping/5S
• Health & Safety adherence

Key Experience:

• Experience in a high volume technology manufacturing assembly processes
• Familiarity with electrical and mechanical product assembly
• Experience of a Lean manufacturing environment an advantage
• Experience of rectification processes (strip down, rebuild) is desirable

Indirect Buyer

If you are working within a sourcing department, we have an opportunity for a Buyer to operate in a Manufacturing environment.

We are seeking an energetic individual who thrives in identifying cost reduction opportunities, negotiations and building strong working relationships with stakeholders. We are a growing dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product.

At Bladon, we recognise Supply Chain as vital to our success. Our team is fully committed to sourcing the best products at the best price to help deliver high quality product to our customers, we are looking for Buyer to become part of our evolving team.

The ideal candidate will be driven to own, deliver and optimise our sourcing strategy. We are looking for an energetic addition to our team who is an influential communicator, highly organised and effective.

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Responsible for all transactional indirect purchase orders across the business (from stationary through to services to sub-contract processes)
• Mechanical componentry and fastenings
• Lead the commercial negotiation where applicable, complete strategic tender processes and present to Management, with a recommended business case proposal, supplier sourcing decision and implementation plans
• Ensure all relevant policies & procedures are followed
• An understanding of KPI's and delivering against them
• Generation of status reports covering key performance measurement & business planning activity
• Ownership of spend and achieving / exceeding cost saving targets
• Identify suitable suppliers and monitoring their performance and competitiveness
• Process orders and ensure timely delivery of parts.
• Work with other internal departments to ensure requirements are understood to enable procurement of parts and assemblies

What we’re looking for:

• Qualifications & Experience - Minimum 2 years Procurement experience, ideally within a manufacturing or automotive environment with or working towards MCIPS, but not essential
• Experience of Purchase Order control and processing
• Confident in negotiating all aspects of contracts to maximise value
• Working in a cross functional environment
• Experience of purchasing in a low to medium volume environment.
• Confident in negotiating price
• Strong communication skills
• SAP knowledge desirable but full training given
• Ethics and Integrity are essential characteristics for the right candidate

What you'll get from us:

• Opportunity to work across the indirect platform, but also support on other direct commodities where required
• 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 dependent upon experience
• Pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Eyecare Vouchers

Senior Buyer

If you are working within a sourcing department, we have an opportunity for a Senior Buyer to operate in a Manufacturing environment.

We are seeking an energetic individual who thrives in identifying cost reduction opportunities, negotiations and building strong working relationships with stakeholders. We are a growing dynamic company with a highly innovative and market leading product.

At Bladon, we recognise Supply Chain as vital to our success. Our team is fully committed to sourcing the best products at the best price to help deliver high quality product to our customers, we are looking for a Senior Buyer to become part of our evolving team.

The ideal candidate will be driven to own, deliver and optimise our sourcing strategy. We are looking for an energetic addition to our team who is an influential communicator, highly organised and effective.

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Responsible for all transactional direct purchase orders across the business (commodity options subject to candidate)
• Experience of global supply chains
• Strong cost and quality focus
• Lead the commercial negotiation, complete strategic tender processes and present to Management, with a recommended business case proposal, supplier sourcing decision and implementation plans
• Ensure all relevant policies & procedures are followed
• An understanding of KPI's and delivering against them
• Generation of status reports covering key performance measurement & business planning activity
• Ownership of spend and achieving / exceeding cost savings targets
• Identify suitable suppliers and monitoring their performance and competitiveness
• Process orders and ensure timely delivery of parts.
• Work with other internal departments to ensure requirements are understood to enable procurement of parts and assemblies

What we’re looking for:

• Qualifications & Experience - Minimum 5 years Procurement experience, ideally within a manufacturing or automotive environment with or working towards MCIPS, but not essential
• Confident in negotiating all aspects of contracts to maximise value
• Working in a cross functional environment
• Experience of purchasing in a low to medium volume environment.
• Confident in negotiating price
• Strong communication skills
• SAP knowledge desirable but full training given
• Ethics and Integrity are essential characteristics for the right candidate

What you'll get from us:

• Opportunity to work across multi functions and commodities
• 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 dependent upon experience
• Pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Eyecare Vouchers

Test Engineer

If you are an experienced Test Engineer who is always ready to react to issues as they arise and 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 Test Engineer to join our growing Product Development Test team.

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 Test Engineer, you will take the lead in a wide variety of R&D and V&V test activities to support new product introduction and subsystem testing.

The competitive and fast-paced nature of our technology development requires the constant improvement of our capabilities. Candidates will be expected to have demonstrable experience in design, build and commissioning of new test rigs and facilities, 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 member of the Test Team 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.

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.
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.
• Due to the nature of the role, you are required to attend the facility 5 days a week
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Eyecare Vouchers

What you’ll deliver to us:

• Lead the design & development of new test rigs and facilities
• To perform a variety of testing on microturbine gensets. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Performance Testing
• Endurance and Reliability Testing
• Customer validation testing, such as testing the interaction of our product with customer equipment
• Research and Development into new product introductions, and solutions to problems, cost down, product improvement etc
• 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:

• Must have right to work in the UK
• Minimum 2:1 Hons degree in Electronic, Electrical, Mechanical or Control related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a test engineering role.
• Ideal candidates will 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.
• 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 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.

The control software to operate the micro-turbine and its associated systems is all written in-house with control of turbo generators, fuel systems, combustion and high power electrical machines a vital part of the Bladon product, particularly with the move towards sustainable fuels, both liquid and gaseous.

The early verification and validation of these components is becoming progressively more important and using hardware in the loop technology allows control system modifications and system validation to occur in parallel with hardware modifications and design.

You should have experience of working in with multiple controllers interfaced through CAN using a complex simulation model running real-time on standard HIL simulation hardware. You should have experience of moving the simulation model forwards using real world measured value to continuously improve the fidelity of the model.

We strive for excellence in all activities, and you will have access to an extensive set of in-house resources including comprehensive design and analysis tools in addition to dedicated R&D manufacturing and testing facilities; allowing concepts to be developed into solutions and validated at pace.

Bladon are committed to support and invest in the best talent with a competitive benefits package. If you have a passion to join a developing team, solve interesting electromechanical problems and work with the best industry standard tools then get in touch and start your journey to an exciting career with Bladon.

Bladon have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Systems Engineering Team. You will have a passion for design and development and will have the opportunity to play a key role in defining our next generation of highly fuel efficient, ultra-low emissions, green fuelled micro-turbine generators.

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.

This is a key role within the engineering organisation, where your input will be actively encouraged and highly valued, and where you are able to use your systems engineering skills to help guide the definition and development of our generation products all the way from concept to production. Your design solutions will build on Bladon’s existing innovative micro-turbine technologies which are already extensively proven in some of the most extreme environments across the globe.

The Candidate

The successful candidate will be a Systems Engineer, with a detailed understanding of requirements management and Systems Engineering methodology. You will be highly creative, agile, and with a broad range of engineering design experience. You will be keen to build and grow your Systems Engineering knowledge to support the design and development of our next generation product.

If you are currently seeking an opportunity to work within a team operating in a fast-paced environment, across the full engineering lifecycle, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

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
• 33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.
• Share options
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Employee referral scheme
• Hybrid working with set office days
• Eyecare Vouchers

What you’ll deliver to us:

• To own and drive the development of the engineering requirement specifications, considering customer needs, business needs and any market and industry specific requirements (applicable standards, legislation, etc.).
• To capture the engineering product specifications in the form of a SysML based requirements model within the Enterprise Architect toolset. To ensure full bi-directional traceability across the entire requirements model. To create the reporting template which allows the engineering product specification to be output as a document in human readable format.
• To support development of attribute targets against each of the product key attributes, based on clear understanding of competitor product performance, and taking guidance from our commercial team on which attributes we want to take a leadership position in, which ones we will maintain a competitive position, and those where we accept to be behind the performance benchmark.
• To support the Systems Architect in the analysis and down-selection of the competing concepts to derive the final recommended technical solution.
• To support the Systems Architect to embed the chosen solution within the SysML model, and to assist in the flow down and where appropriate also analysis and decomposition of requirements so as to derive engineering specifications for each of the sub-system activities.

What we’re looking for:

• Degree or equivalent in an Engineering discipline
• At least five years experienced in systems & requirements engineering using a model-based approach (ISO-15288).
• Will be expected to own and drive the development of the stakeholder, system and sub-system requirements so should either have strong demonstrable experience of either having led such an activity, or at least playing a key role in same.