Mechanical Design Engineer

ABOUT US

Founded in 2019, Ocean Bottle is a brand dedicated to positively impacting the world, built on the power of collective action and imperfect sustainability efforts. We have shipped hundreds of thousands of units across the world and formed partnerships with renowned brands from all walks of life. We have also collected 16,743,322 kg of plastic whilst simultaneously improving the livelihoods of the communities we work with. With a focus on diversity and our impact pillars of Ocean Health, Social Good, Closing the Loop, and Climate Action, our aim is to prevent the equivalent of 7 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean by 2025.

Born from Ocean Bottle, we have recently launched our new proposition, Ocean Co., which is the world's first ocean health platform, committed to restoring, protecting, and securing the well-being of the ocean. Our goal is to connect individuals and brands worldwide with the ocean's prosperous future, through plug-and-play solutions. Using our technology platform, our community members are provided with immersive education, measurable impact, real-time traceability information, and inspiring field stories. By combining education and action, Ocean Co. strives to ensure a healthy and sustainable ocean for the benefit of all.

Together, Ocean Bottle and Ocean Co., are united in a joint mission to combat ocean plastic and promote environmental and social justice.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join our New Product Development (NPD) team. This role will support our engineering efforts for the new range of products. Reporting to our Head of NPD you will play a crucial role in driving our sustainability initiatives forward. Your primary focus will be on advancing our use of sustainable materials within our products while also supporting the project management of other ongoing projects.

This is a full-time, 6-month fixed term contract.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Your core areas of focus across the organisation will be:

• Mechanical design development for existing and future products. The output of your work will be measured by how confidently we can quantify how well our products perform. How we can take our physical products and communicate them in numbers, and help our suppliers use the same approach in production.

• Testing method development through to new design support. Before we can improve our new products, we first need to understand where our current products stand in the drinksware category. The work from test design, to performance measurement to suggested design improvements is all linked and will help us push our products' performance even further.

• Functional design. Each of our products will have some challenging mechanical design to navigate, from how tightly a thread needs to be twisted to achieve an effective seal, to surviving drops onto hard concrete. The longevity of our products and their performance is inherently tied to these fundamental design decisions. This requires a thorough understanding of design principles to help us improve our future products.

• Specification control & designing with respect to manufacturing tolerances. When working from the list of features a product has, and turning these into a more technical specification, we need to help our supplier understand why these figures are important and help them measure these during production. This way we can be confident our products will always perform as expected even through the variations in tolerances that typical manufacturing processes experience.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

Remuneration

We’re looking to pay a starting salary of £45,000 for this role, depending on experience. In addition, we offer a range of benefits as detailed below.

Other benefits
📈 ​Stock options: we provide stock options so you’re as invested in our future growth as we are!​

🏝️ Enhanced annual leave: we’ll give you 25 days of paid holiday, plus bank holidays, and the day off to celebrate your birthday each year! We also offer discretionary leave at the EOY to fully reset!

⏰ Flexible working: we have a hybrid working model which includes options for team remote-working months, flexible working, and flexible unpaid leave

🍼 Family leave: enhanced family leave for all employees based on tenure

🩺 Private Medical Insurance: we offer all employees PMI through Vitality to access high-quality private medical facilities and medical treatments, at a time and place that suits you.

🧠 Mental Health Support: all employees can access mental health support through the Spill platform

📚 Learning perks: get access to unlimited Professional Coaching through More Happi and £200 towards learning materials, books and courses every year, for your professional development

🔋eCommute Programme: access great salary sacrifice deals on electric vehicles through the eCommute Programme run by WeVee.

🚴 Cycle to Work: get access to 26-40% off your next bike purchase to help you reduce your carbon footprint

🧳 Annual team trip: we plan to do a team trip once a year if circumstances allow, bringing our team together to connect, learn and come away inspired

👕 Team merch: who better to rep our brand than our awesome team?! That’s why when you join you can get your hands on your very own Ocean Bottle, branded team merch and access to discounts on other products.

🐶 Friendly workspace: we have an awesome pet-friendly office in the heart of Soho. We want to make sure our office is a place you want to come to, therefore we put on regular team socials, have a fully-stocked fridge, provide DAME period products in our bathroom, and host regular lunch and learns, to name a few!

Equal Opportunities Statement

Ocean Bottle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, colour, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally recognised protected basis prohibited by applicable law. If we can offer accommodations for you in the recruitment process or you have feedback on how to make our recruiting more accessible, please contact us at team@oceanbotte.co.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for someone who will have experience in the following areas:

• 3+ years of product design and development experience

• Experience of mechanical design through to manufacturing.

• Tolerance stacks. Are you able to effectively explain the importance of designing with respect to manufacturing tolerances?

• Mechanical test design set up and reporting.

• Proficient in CAD software (e.g., Fusion 360, SolidWorks)

• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication

• Prototyping proficiency, able to work with 3D printing FDM machines.

• Design for manufacturing experience, developing products ready to go to injection moulding, compression moulding, rotary moulding.

• Engineering drawing production, an understanding of why these are used in modern manufacturing environments.

• Passionate about and with a genuine interest in physical product design, innovation and sustainability

• A fast learner and an optimist, ready to tackle difficult design problems

• Someone who embodies our values of Do Good, Take Ownership, Drive Innovation and Open Communication

Bonus Points - these are nonessential, but a bonus if you have them!

• Bachelor’s, master’s degree, diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Design Engineering