joem5172

Experience

• Senior product design engineer Mobile Power · Full-time Jan 2023 – Present 1 yrs 11 mos Sheffield, England, United Kingdom Mobile Power | January 2023 – Present Mobile Power, a green energy company operating in Sub-Saharan Africa providing battery rentals with in-house designed equipment to off-grid communities.
  
  RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Full product design of batteries, charging equipment and accessories.
  • Taking products from the design brief right through to full scale manufacturing working closely with overseas factories.
  • Continuous improvement of product portfolio.
  • Advising on and helping to implement a PDM and revision system for historical and new designs.
  • Redrawing and documenting historical product designs and bills of materials across different CAD platforms.
  • Advising on and helping to implement a PDM and revision system for historical and new designs including mentoring a junior engineer team member.
  • As the first in-house designer, documenting and improving design and development processes with the aim of producing better quality and more refined products first time.
  
  ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Complete redesign of core product: MOPO50, a 50Wh rentable power bank with built in lantern. New features included impact protection, waterproofing, improved lantern and a reduced part count.
  • Full ground up design of MOPOMax: a 1kWh rentable portable battery pack designed to operate as a replacement for ICE generators and forming the battery pack in small EVs.
  • Leading small design team to deliver multiple MOPOMax accessories and infrastructure products including a hub charge unit, rentable inverter and EV motorbike battery box
  • Concept design of multiple additional MOPOMax accessories forming part of feasibility studies into future product developments.