Mechanical Engineer

What you’ll do

• Act as the primary liaison between the manufacturing team and the Octopus Centre for Heating Technology (OCHT) R&D team
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between the manufacturing site and the R&D team to drive project success, conducting regular meetings and holding both teams accountable for project goals and progress
• Identify and resolve issues that may arise during New Product Introduction, with an emphasis on Design for Manufacture
• Implement improvements to enhance production efficiency and product quality
• Manage engineering change requirements for product design within the manufacturing process
• Provide technical support and guidance to the manufacturing team to troubleshoot and resolve product and other mechanical/electrical engineering-related issues
• Maintain thorough documentation of project activities, decisions, and changes

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical Engineering or another related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience within a manufacturing environment
• Self-starter with a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making, who is happy to work in a cross functional role with a matrix of stakeholders
• Strong project management skills with a track record of successfully completing complex projects on time and within budget
• Proven experience (that you can talk about!) in managing and aligning the requirements of multiple teams and stakeholders, and dealing with ambiguity
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Ability to work on-site in Portadown every day
• Knowledge of heating / HVAC technology or similar industries is a big plus

What we offer

• Equity Option Scheme everyone owns a part of what we’re building, when you become an Octopus Energy Group employee, you will be included in our Equity Options Scheme.
• Pension Scheme we’ll pay 5%. You can decide what you contribute, starting from 3%
• 30 days holiday (incl bank holidays) we’re all grown ups here and we want you to ensure holidays are taken when it suits both yourself and the business. We work hard and so we know you need to play hard as well
• Flexible working we’re passionate about a genuine work-life balance here. Need to catch that school nativity or work from home? That’s cool and if we can do it we will
• Social events your hard work deserves some down time. We sponsor YeoValley’s summer festival, Valleyfest, every year for our big offsite Summer party (we take our kids too) and we also aim to have 3 parties a year!
• Clothing we dont believe in dressing up or formal clothes to do your best work. Wear whatever you feel comfortable in (subject to reason!) and we will provide safety and other clothing for manufacturing
• For Parents We can arrange access to tax free childcare, as well as maternity and paternity pay. During the lockdown we even created OctoKidsTV!
• Go Your Own Way EV salary sacrifice and cycle to work scheme available
• Tech We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
• Money Coach You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach . They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
• Wellbeing Need some calm in your life? We have ’Octopus Headspace Licences’ available. We also do Yoga twice a week and offer free eye test vouchers

Why else you’ll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it’s something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don’t advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn’t apply to Octopus - what’s more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we’re voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people