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Lead Mechanical Engineer

Description

Cellular Origins

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devasting and previously untreatable diseases like cancer by re-programming the patient’s own immune system. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation.

Cellular Origins, a TTP Company, is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Cellular Origins’ proprietary technology addresses the challenges associated with manufacturing at scale with an elegant robotic manufacturing automation solution that reduces cost and labour, eliminates human error, and increases efficiency.

Lead Mechanical Engineer

We’re looking for multiple Lead Mechanical Engineers to drive the design and development of our robotic manufacturing system.

As a Lead Mechanical Engineer, you will own the delivery of critical modules within the system. As the driving force behind the design, development, and delivery, you’ll lead the end-to-end process of your modules, from concept to detailed engineering, always ensuring alignment with performance and manufacturability requirements.

Collaboration with cross-functional bioprocess, robotics and system engineering teams will be crucial for seamless integration into the wider system.

Within this role you’ll also manage the technical aspects of projects, balancing trade-offs between specifications, risk, and timelines to achieve successful outcomes.

Join us on our mission in steering the system towards excellence. You’ll join a fast-growing, interdisciplinary, team with a passion for solving worthwhile problems. This is somewhere to really make your mark, working in a technically challenging and impact-driven venture, with bright and committed peers, to define the future of cell therapy manufacturing. 

Requirements

Our system includes a range of engineering scale, from large-scale factory automation modules to small, highly complex, precision electromechanical devices. We are building a small team of Engineering Leads to cover this range.

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
  • Proven, extensive, experience in the design and development of complex electromechanical devices and/or manufacturing equipment.
  • Track-record in technical delivery from early product development to transfer-to-manufacture.
  • While your experience might ideally lie within the Life Science fields, experience gained (for example) within consumer products and aerospace are also very interesting to us.

Come and join our mission! We’re closing applications for the role on Tuesday 13th February, 09:00. Every application will receive a reply.

Benefits

Cellular Origins is part of TTP Group, an employee-owned business.  It is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge.  TTP Group takes a long-term approach to investment and has been at the forefront of bioprocess automation for over 20 years.  Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

  • Annual profit-related bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • Employer pension contribution of 12% of pensionable pay
  • Free lunch and all-day refreshments
  • Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
  • Enhanced family friendly leave
  • Life insurance worth 6x salary
  • Electric car leasing scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • An activities and community fund that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it’s lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or TTP’s own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s something missing!
  • Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.

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There’ll be a couple of stages to your interview

There are two stages to our interview process for graduates, and one stage for interns. For both of those roles, there are usually a number of one-to-one interviews with our consultants. We focus on your technical abilities and consumer awareness and use our interviews to see how you’d fit into TTP.

We hold our interviews at TTP Campus in Melbourn

On the outskirts of Cambridge. The interview process is usually around a couple of hours and it’ll include technical problem-solving style questions.

We’ll cover expenses for your interview

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