Mechanical Design Engineer - Seasoning & Spraying

Mechanical Design Engineer - Seasoning & Spraying

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The Company

Join TNA, an award-winning company recognized globally for innovation and rethinking the conventional. TNA was started by Alf and Nadia Taylor as a consulting company for the food industry. Soon after, Alf Taylor invented the world’s first rotary vertical form fill and seal packaging machine which revolutionised packaging speeds for snack foods. Today, we’re the industry’s leading innovator, providing complete turnkey processing and packaging lines for a variety of food production including snacks, French fries, confectionery and more.

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About The Role

We are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer – Seasoning & Spraying, to join our Mechanical team. The role supports this specialist team by applying innovative technical solutions to research and design food packaging and processing machinery, ensuring high customer satisfaction in line with TNA’s design principles.

• Design and develop machinery to meet performance, operational and cost specifications. Development includes assembly, commissioning, testing and ongoing refinement.
• Liaise with and establish excellent relationships with customers, colleagues, suppliers and internal departments.
• Continually identify, implement, monitor and update processes and practices to ensure a high standard of consistency with design philosophies.
• Generate designs and drawings that are of optimum quality. Consider all upstream and downstream effects on the business, internal customers and end users.
• Manage design projects ensuring all milestones are met, as per the schedule.
• Work closely with all departments, ensuring you are a key team member in transitioning new designs through documentation, prototyping, timely production and testing.
• Make decisions within TNA’s philosophies and guidelines, and communicate them clearly and in a timely manner.
• Update personal technical and industry knowledge, as necessary.
• Travel to both customer and TNA sites to support and develop equipment and solutions.
• Involvement in trials and supporting the Solutions Specialists either in the office or on site.

• Degree qualified Mechanical Engineering (or similar engineering discipline).
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role with some autonomy in special purpose design or manufacturing related field – seasoning and spraying preferable.
• Experience with 2D CAD and 3D modelling systems.
• Previous experience of pumps and fluid transfer, tumble drums, loss‑in‑weight feeders and electrostatic system would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of spray technology, nozzle types/selection (fan, hollow cone, full cone), droplet size/atomisation, flow rate and duty cycle would be advantageous.

• Egalitarian company structure which empowers employees and nurtures leaders.
• International mobility opportunity – Opportunity to travel in your job and see the world.
• Professional and career development benefits and education investment.
• Birthday leave.
• Volunteering opportunities with the Nadia and Alf Taylor Foundation.
• Recognition program linked to health and lifestyle benefits.
• A company that truly values diversity.

If you are a highly motivated and a driven individual, then apply now by emailing your resume to  You MUST be resident in the UK and have the relevant RIGHT TO WORK documentation to apply for this role.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Engineering and Information Technology

Machinery Manufacturing

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