Simulation Engineer

Posted on behalf of

UKBIC

A pioneer organisation in battery cell research and battery technology development sector is currently recruiting a Simulation Engineer to join their rapidly growing team! In this role the successful candidate will work alongside a small and growing team of Professional Engineers and Scientists in new product development and industrialization of Lithium-ion cells and batteries.

The ideal candidate will be able to work collaboratively across various business functions and external partners, an excellent communicator to all levels (technical and non-technical), support design and development activities and a strong ability to disseminate and analysis both model and experimental data to provide clear and concise outcomes.

The Simulation Engineer will:

• Create process simulation models as well as system models to inform manufacturing process settings ahead of trials and production activity.
• Develop a system and reporting structure that ensures traceability between models, input data (such as equation/characterization dataset, materials, geometry part numbers, supporting test data) and output data.
• Use knowledge of process parameters critical to quality to inform Manufacturing control plans, PFMEA and work instructions.
• Provide analysis data to support on-going requirements tracking and V&V when test/experimental data is not available or feasible to measure.
• Assist the Head of Product Engineering to forecast the resource and cost requirements (people, computational hardware, and software) for process simulation to enable growth of the capability.
• Attend external technical seminars or webinars to present high level developments and to demonstrate tool simulation capability.
• Development user-friendly front-end simulation applications either as part of hosting an engineering service to external customers or allow other business functions within the company to support their activity.
• Present analysis outcomes at critical meetings such as project gates, customer reviews, design reviews, issue resolution.

The Simulation Engineer will have:

• Master’s Degree qualification (MEng, MSc or equivalent) awarded grade 2:1 or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
• Proven experience in electrode manufacturing in battery, fuel cell and semiconductor applications. Other relevant industries covering chemical processing, rolling processes, reel-to-reel (web) industries such as FMCG, Paint & Printing industries, Pharmaceuticals, Metal/Plastic Industry will be considered.
• Strong technical understanding engineering first principles covering fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mechanics of materials.
• Skilled in CAE software tools such as COMSOL, Abaqus, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS (Mechanical and Fluent) in modelling multiphase and multi-level problems in both FEA and CFD.
• Excellent understanding of product delivery using V&V and Agile methodologies.
• Previous experience in working with external supplier and partners to deliver modelling objectives such as analysis tasks or model development.
• Knowledge of interpreting micro structure and material measurement data to provide input to 2D/3D simulation models.
• Utilized hardware evidence and analysed test data to validate simulation models.

If you are interested in this role, please click the “Apply now” button and we will be in touch with more details!