Power Electronic Design Engineer for EV Charging Systems (KTP Associate)

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

The Role
Flexible Power Systems (FPS) and Newcastle University are offering an exciting opportunity to apply cutting edge power electronics and control expertise to enable the further scale-up of electrification across the larger vehicles in commercial fleets, and their associated hardware and ancillary systems.

The Associate will help Flexible Power Systems (FPS) achieving their ambition of becoming a world leader in enabling sustainable transport, through two distinctive phases:

Phase one:
The Associate will need to develop high-power and highly efficient electric Power Take Off (ePTO) technology to place FPS in a leading position in the ever expanding market.

Phase two:
The Associate will help FPS to develop high-power on-board bidirectional wireless charger, using the state-of-the art semiconductor technologies.

Candidates should have a PhD in power electronics and control or a related field.

The KTP Associate will be an employee of Newcastle University but will spend most of their working time at Flexible Power System premises at and when required at Newcastle University. Although the contract is fixed-term for a duration of 36 months, more than 70% of KTP staff gain a permanent job offer by their KTP company.

Benefits

• Develop managerial skills and attend two residential managerial workshops (each of one week duration).
• £6,000 personal training budget.
• The opportunity to lead a project, develop project management skills and improve long term career prospects.
• Mentoring by a Knowledge Transfer Network Adviser.
• Full access to university resources to complete the project.
• Ability to work in a largely self-determined way, across the industry-academic partnership.
• Opportunities to develop both technical understanding and commercial awareness.
• The possibility to undertake professional development.

For more information or informal enquiries, please contact Dr Mohamed Dahidah (Mohamed.Dahidah@newcastle.ac.uk).

For further details on the Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering please visit our web page at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/.

For further details about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships please visit the web page at: http://www.ktp-uk.org/.

Key Tasks

• Deliver key innovations in power electronic converter design and control.
• Contribute novel design for on-board wireless bidirectional charging system.
• Work with FPS engineering team to produce a demonstration system.
• Ensure the effective transfer of knowledge through workshops, reports, training materials and mentoring.

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