PhD Graduate Consultant - Mechanical Engineering - 2027
Date: 2026-10-04
Location: Royston, Hertfordshire, GB, SG8 7
Application Deadline: 2027-01-02T15:01:05.16
Role Details
- Position: PhD Graduate Consultant - Mechanical Engineering - 2027
- Full-time
- Role Type: Graduate
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Technical Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
- Department: TTP Group
About TTP
TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market. We support clients to invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across diverse industries such as health tech, life science, energy, and communications—at the intersection of engineering, physical science, and biology.
Working in Consultancy
Your expertise and creativity will be appreciated and nurtured from day one. You will contribute to technical projects, solve complex real-world problems, work with clients, and be a trusted and integral team member. As a PhD Graduate Consultant in Mechanical Engineering, your work will involve:
- Using your engineering skillset to support multi-disciplinary project teams to invent new products and technologies.
- Applying your commercial acumen to drive projects forward.
- Demonstrating leadership and building collaborative client relationships.
- Gaining a strong understanding of industries we work across.
- Managing multiple projects simultaneously, rapidly expanding your knowledge in new fields.
Personal and Professional Development
You will develop as a consultant by fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, understanding markets, engaging with clients, and presenting your findings. Opportunities include leading projects, building teams, managing relationships, and representing TTP at conferences both in the UK and internationally. Collaboration, knowledge sharing, and curiosity are core values, with all staff working on-site five days a week.
Candidate Profile
- Deep intellectual curiosity and inventiveness, with a desire to understand how things work at a fundamental level.
- Academic record reflecting rigorous, first-principles thinking—minimum 2:1 in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, with PhD expected within 6-12 months.
- Commercially aware and entrepreneurial, eager to turn breakthrough technologies into real-world products and impact.
- Proactive, self-starting, with personal responsibility and a drive to make things happen.
- Collaborative and emotionally intelligent, capable of building trust, influencing stakeholders, and clearly communicating complex ideas.
- Strategic and systems-minded—able to see the bigger picture, anticipate challenges, navigate ambiguity, and focus on priorities.
What We Offer
Our award-winning campus is located in lush surroundings just south of Cambridge. Benefits include:
- Annual profit-related bonus
- Virtual shares in TTP Group
- Private medical insurance (for you and dependants)
- Life insurance (6 x salary)
- 25 days annual holiday
- Enhanced parental leave and flexible return-to-work support
- Electric car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Local sports and cultural discounts
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PhD Graduate Consultant - Mechanical Engineering - 2027 in Royston employer: TTP plc
TTP plc is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and entrepreneurial work culture, ideal for innovative Mechanical Design Engineers looking to make a significant impact in the Energy & Process Technologies sector. Located near Cambridge, employees benefit from a vibrant tech community, ample opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to work on cutting-edge projects that challenge and inspire creativity.
