Mechanical Engineer Consultant- Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery

TTP plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

Employer pension 10%

Lunch on-site

Private medical insurance

Enhanced family leave

Life insurance 6x salary

Electric car leasing

Cycle to work

Season travel ticket loan

Activities and community fund

Theatre discounts

Job summary

TTP is a trusted design and engineering consultancy focused on advanced drug delivery devices and combination products. As a Mechanical Engineer, you will bridge client ambition and technical delivery, taking ownership of project delivery and ensuring clinical relevance and robustness from concept to manufacture.

You’ll work with a collaborative team, shaping proposals and advancing opportunities. The role blends hands‑on engineering with leadership, including scoping, design, analysis and

Qualifications

• Master's qualification in a relevant technical discipline with 3+ years industry experience.
• Experience in client engagements and leading opportunities.
• Strong design, analysis, modelling and rapid prototyping capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for technical delivery and ensure projects meet client needs and ambitions.
• Lead scoping, proposal creation, programme planning and milestone mapping.
• Explore new business opportunities for the team and develop project leadership capability.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

First principles reasoning

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline

Job description

Company Description

TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex technical challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market. We invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across a wide range of industries - including healthcare, life science, energy, and communications - and at the intersection of biology, physical science and engineering. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work.

Job Description

Our Drug Delivery Product Design & Development Consulting | TTP team is looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer who can bridge the gap between client ambition and technical delivery. You will work closely with our business development colleagues to understand our client's needs and build compelling proposals for solving their most technically complex challenges. Once a project is defined, you will take responsibility for technical delivery and ensuring the project continues to meet the needs and ambitions of our clients.

TTP is trusted by nine of the top ten global pharmaceutical leaders to solve complex drug delivery challenges. As a design and engineering consultancy specialising in advanced drug delivery devices and combination products, we help teams take devices from blank sheet to clinical reality, addressing challenges such as high-viscosity biologics and advanced formulations. With deep engineering, scientific and human factors expertise, our team guides product development projects from early feasibility and concept creation through to design, verification, transfer to manufacture and launch. We focus on developing robust, efficient and scalable devices that support therapeutic effectiveness and perform reliably in real-world use.

As a Mechanical Engineer at TTP you'll work on complex engineering challenges, using a solid grounding in first-principles engineering knowledge to identify and develop solutions. This will involve a combination of creative idea-generation, analysis, modelling, design and problem solving, as well as hands-on experimental work to take your ideas from the lab to pilot scale testing. As a consultant, you'll also use this knowledge to explore new business opportunities for the team and will have the opportunity to build your project leadership capability.

With superb facilities, bright and collaborative colleagues and the freedom to innovate, your future at TTP is what you make it. We value ambition, leadership and technical excellence and we provide a fantastic environment to develop your career.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who thrives with autonomous ownership across the whole arc of a project. Depending on your strengths and interests, this role provides a pathway to leading how we approach project delivery and client management and, for the right person, towards a broader leadership role in our Pharma market team.

Ideal candidates will bring demonstrable mechanical engineering capability, through a strong academic background and expertise in the following areas:

• Minimum Masters qualification in a relevant technical discipline, along with 3 years + of industry experience.
• Practiced in client engagements, building trusted relationships with Partners in key accounts, participating in Sales meetings and leading prosecution of opportunities.
• Mechanical Engineering including concept creation, analysis, modelling, detailed design and rapid prototyping.
• Leading and/or assisting with project scoping, proposal creation, programme planning, communication of deliverables and milestone mapping.
• Strong understanding of first principles and ability to apply to a wide range of technical challenges, sometimes in an unfamiliar domain with clear reasoning.

Benefits

TTP is an employee-owned business, based at TTP Campus in Melbourn, just 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our purpose-built, sustainable offices and laboratories are set in green surroundings, creating an inspiring environment for innovation. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work.

• Annual profit-related bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Free, nutritious lunch in our on-site restaurant
• 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 travel ticket loan
• An activities and community fund that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it's lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band.
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships

We welcome applications from international candidates and can provide visa sponsorship for eligible applicants.