Senior Hydrogen Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Hydrogen Engineer to join our Advanced Production Systems (APS) Team.

The Senior Hydrogen Engineer role is primarily focused on technical delivery of projects and development of project related activities across The MTC, with a focus on Hydrogen projects. You will work across various technology departments, industrial sectors, and customers.

Activities in the role will likely include:

• Technical project leadership to ensure work meets or exceeds agreed customer requirements. Including working with project managers and engineering resources to deliver projects within agreed scope, budget, and timescales. Projects and work packages typically have budgets of £100k to £2m over timeframes of 3months to 2.5 years.
• Technical delivery of projects aimed to support UK-based customers with the design, development, industrialisation and scale-up of their Hydrogen products. The role has the potential to work across industrial sectors, with a primary focus on products associated with Power and Energy.
• Depending on experience, specific tasks could include:
  • Mechanical design and development of medium to large scale complex industrial equipment
  • Design Optimisation for Function, Manufacturing, Automation, or “X”
  • Skill and workforce development
• Providing technical governance, including nurturing earlier-career stage engineers in their technical development.
• Supporting Senior Managers with a proactive approach in the identification, technical specification, and delivery of new and novel technology capability into the MTC, its customers, or industrial members premises.
• Working with The MTC’s stakeholders to define and propose project ideas for internal, industrial, or Collaborative Research & Development (CR&D) funding streams.
• Ownership of Health and Safety to ensure your own and your colleague’s health (both physical & mental), pro-actively reporting any concerns, near-misses or accidents.

All aspects of the role are to be carried out as an exemplar within the business in adhering to the MTC RIGHT way:

• Acting responsibly, putting MTC’s interests ahead of personal ambition.
• Providing inspirational leadership to all who encounter you.
• Delivering in the broadest sense a great working environment.
• Leading with humility, honesty and integrity in all that you do.
• Promoting teamwork, supporting through difficult times and collectively celebrating our successes.

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience

The MTC is a collaborative environment where we value teamwork. To facilitate this, we are looking for candidates with the following skills, qualifications and experiences:

• A track record of both verbal and written technical communication, tailoring communication style for different audiences (for example across different areas of the business)
• Experience with partner and supplier liaison – for example with customers & partners, including collaborating directly with customers during project delivery, acting as a technical liaison.
• Experience in designing H2 systems or involvement in H2 projects for production, distribution, storage or consumption.
• Understanding of H2 in the UK and net zero, etc.
• Demonstrable use of coaching and mentoring to support colleagues and transfer knowledge in area of expertise to others within own department and wider MTC colleagues.
• Creative problem-solving abilities, with an analytical approach to implementation.
• Substantial demonstrable experience in mechanical design and development of medium to large scale industrial equipment – for example, gas networks, oil and gas design – including experience with safety standards and design considerations in these or other comparable areas
• Hold a degree, or equivalent experience or qualification in Mechanical Engineering, or other suitable discipline.
• Promoting teamwork, supporting through difficult times and collectively celebrating our successes.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience

• Experience in product development, design, industrialisation of technologies and/or manufacturing in an industry environment where these products would be associated with the topic of Hydrogen.
• Experience of CAD software packages with the ability to create design concepts or evaluate existing designs against “Design for X” criteria.
• Experience with modelling and fully dimensioning engineering drawings to BS8888.
• Experience in a design and development environment with experience leading and co-ordinating large programmes.
• Familiar with FMEAs, robust engineering practices and supporting techniques.
• The ability to undertake and/or interpret CAE studies and propose solutions/improvements to design issues.
• Experience in design reviews, HAZOPS and other safety studies, DSEAR and ATEX considerations.