Turntide’s Transport group is based in the North East of England and is focused on delivering electrification systems – energy storage, power electronics and advanced electric motors – to deliver emissions-free mobility and industrial machines across global markets.

There is a massive change happening across industrial Transportation. Globally there is a rapid shift to new electrified platforms to meet the demands of their end users looking to reduce carbon emissions and create entirely new product types. Our Turntide for Electrification solutions help ease the customer journey and accelerate their transition.

We are hiring for a Product Technical Specialist - Battery Systems whose primary responsibility will be to identify technology enabling solution opportunities focusing on the market, the customer and pulling from the internal knowledge pool to continuously identify and define the technology roadmap, product placement and solution delivery.

The role is based at our site in Gateshead and reports into the Product Manager – Battery Systems.

Job Role

In this role the Product Technical Specialist - Battery Systems will be responsible for the following:

• Supporting Turntide's strategy for battery systems in transportation by providing input to roadmaps including product diversification, features and options while translating that into detailed requirements and a go-to-market strategy.
• Supporting Turntide’s strategy to be a leader in providing a full electric drivetrain. This would involve close team work with Turntide product experts for motors, inverters and thermal products to ensure an optimised electric drivetrain.
• Serving as the subject matter expert and main technical interface to the customer in the pursuit phase of new business opportunities.
• Being able to create concept mechanical and electrical diagrams to help the customer to understand the offering.
• Understanding the basic functions of a BMS, both electronically and software.
• Working closely with customers to understand their business needs and opportunities and apply it to our product offerings by capturing and articulating market problems and translating them into market requirements for product management including design, performance needs, features and options.
• Ensuring that the technical solution presented to customers is optimal, considering the expectation on performance, cost and timing whilst assessing the new business opportunities with the Sales team considering alignment to strategy, technical risk, resources, and cost.
• Supporting the commercial business function with technology collateral, whilst assisting with opportunity identification, quantification, and qualification. Generating business cases for product extensions and product enhancements.
• Driving OEM awareness of current and future products and value propositions and leverage differentiations to be suitably positioned to win the right business opportunities.
• Acting as subject matter expert throughout the product development cycle. Managing the technical risk management and escalation of issues.

Experience and Skills

We’re looking for candidates with the following experience and skills:

• Experience in product management, battery design in the field of electrification of transport or battery technology
• Excellent understanding of current and future technology, systems, and concepts related to electrification and Industry 4.0 operations
• Excellent understanding and first hand experience of cell chemistries, energy distribution systems and battery management systems
• Ability to innovate and solve problems creatively
• Ability to influence, manage and mobilize stakeholders with varied expertise from different cultures and geographic locations
• Project management experience and proven ability to lead product development teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent business sense to proactively identify and resolve problems and issues quickly and efficiently
• Customer facing experience

It would also be great (but not essential) if in addition to the above you also had:

• Experience in manufacturing and component sourcing for serial production of battery systems
• Knowledge of development of electric machines, power electronics and software

Qualifications

A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical/ Electronic, Mechanical or Aerospace engineering, Maths or Science as appropriate fields of study or equivalent

Relevant experience could also be considered.

Attributes

The ideal candidate will have the following personal qualities :

• Enthusiastic, flexible and able to thrive and succeed in times of ambiguity and change
• Structured individual with ability to interact and communicate at all levels of the organisation
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communications and relationship building skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Good commercial awareness and proactive problem-solving skills to ensure business needs are understood and agreed solutions are delivered.
• This is a very hands-on position – we expect a person with a ‘roll up your sleeves’ attitude.
• Ability to work well under pressure, prioritise work accordingly and meet tight deadlines
• Pro-active taking ownership of tasks given and follow through to completion
• Must model highest degree of moral and ethical behaviour given the access to such confidential data
• Must be able to work alone with minimum guidance, but also be able to operate effectively as part of a team.
• Confident, thoughtful and able to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical team members
• Ability to mentor and train effectively, supporting development through hands-on or practical experience.
• Must display strong leadership skills and be able to engage and drive a positive high-performance culture
• Must have an agile approach to work
• Tackle problems with creativity and innovation
• Hungry for success, self-motivated, results-driven, and ambitious
• Able to travel both within and outside of the UK

Terms and Conditions

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