Head of Mechanical Engineering

Closing date: 16/05/2026 13:28:00
Contract: Permanent
Location: South East

Job description:

This is a builder-leader role for a senior engineer who has developed separate production systems to their full potential and integrated them into a single, functional production machine. You will maintain a full vision of the system architecture while developing each subsystem - technically authoritative, hands-on where it counts, and simultaneously founding the engineering team that takes the technology to full commercial readiness.

INITION have developed a patented technology that changes how battery electrodes are made at a fundamental level. You will take our proprietary production system through its next critical engineering phase-solving complex technical challenges and scaling it to full commercial readiness.
This is not a role where you inherit someone else's roadmap. You will own it. You will define the engineering programme, solve the hard problems, and build the team around you.

Responsibilities include:

- Take full technical ownership of delivering INITION's first pilot proprietary 3D electrode production system
- Take technical ownership of INITION's separate production systems, improving each to the level required and integrating them into a single, functional prototype electrode production machine
- Define and drive the engineering roadmap from current development stage through to a robust, commercially viable production system
- Apply rigorous engineering discipline across mechanical design, process control, automation, and systems integration
- Work hands-on alongside the team - presence in the workshop building and testing your vision with the team.

Candidate requirements:

- 10 years of experience demonstrable to take this position.
- Proven track record of improving separate production systems and integrating them into a single, functional special purpose machine - you have done both the subsystem development and the whole-system integration work
- Strong engineering foundation across machine design, process control, automation, and systems integration
- Experience building or leading an engineering team, ideally in a startup, scale-up, or advanced manufacturing environment
- Hands-on and technically authoritative Sufficient understanding of materials processing to work at the interface of machine development, performance and production output
- Rigorous approach to engineering documentation, IP, and technical governance

Job sector: Other
Start date: 16/04/2026 13:27:00
Salary / Package: £85,000 – £95,000 with equity and targeted uplift to £130k once series A funding secure
Company name: Inition Energy
Contact name: Karl Peters
Email address: kpeters@inition.energy
Telephone number: 07300847616
Website address: www.inition.energy