Experience

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  Oort Energy

  • City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

  • Stack Design Engineer

    • Apr 2024 - Present
    • City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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  Kinneir Dufort

  • United Kingdom
  • Design Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Associate Mechanical Design Engineer

    • Dec 2022 - Apr 2024

    Kinneir Dufort, or KD, are an innovation and design consultancy operating across the industrial, consumer and medical sectors. As a member of mechanical engineering, I worked closely with our other expertise teams – design, research, electronics and human factors – to deliver integrated and effective solutions to our clients’ needs on often tight timescales. Projects I worked on have varied in breadth, depth and complexity considerably. Scope was as limited as troubleshooting a singular failure mode, or as broad as a full end-to-end product development, starting with an idea and ending with handover to manufactures, as with the Monk Smart Ice Bath.My role included systems design and development, mechanism design, test rig development, detailed 3D design, 2D drawing drafting, prototype iteration, analysis (FEA and physical), design for manufacture, supplier management, hazard analysis and risk management. We work to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 quality and documentation standards. I both generated complex assemblies from scratch and integrated with client’s existing data.I proudly stood behind the company’s motto of “Designing a Better World”. Within KD I was part of the Sustainability Lab – pushing to minimise or eliminate the climate impact of our clients’ products and services.Curiosity, flexibility, and learning have been key to succeeding in this role, and my skills have advanced greatly over my time here.

  • Junior Mechanical Design Engineer

    • Sep 2021 - Dec 2022

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  Kinneir Dufort

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Engineering Intern

    • Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Engineering intern, working on multiple projects in consumer, industrial and medical sectors, often in the same day. Conducted significant design and prototyping work of products which were delivered to the end user or client. Gained experience in project workflow and client relations, especially determining product requirements.

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  Bristol Robotics Lab

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Student Intern

    • Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Assisted with innovative research involving biomimicry, computer vision, swarms, self-repair and human-machine interfacing. I was excited by working with researchers on the cutting edge of physical robotics and artificial intelligence. Spending a day with each research group I learnt as much as possible in a short week.

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  Rolls-Royce

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Student Intern

    • Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Experience of design and analysis in an industrial context. Completed team project to redesign an EJ200 turbine drive shaft to to extend its life whilst minimising the additional weight and costs. Used Siemens NX to quantify the improvement with finite element analysis and presented the changes to a board of senior staff.

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  Rolls-Royce

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Student Intern

    • Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Shadowed a senior manufacturing engineer in the test and development area. Involved in project to redesign assembly tooling for the Trent 1000 that was under development. Also first experience of split security, as the F35 Jet Fighter LiftSystem is developed and assembled at the Bristol site.