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Our EPT team develops products that help decarbonise industry, transform the way chemicals are made, and accelerate the adoption of modern energy-generation and storage technologies. By combining deep scientific expertise in electrochemistry and power electronics with systems, chemical, and product engineering, we deliver complex, commercially viable solutions for our ambitious clients.\nOur ambition is to grow the business rapidly, to engage with corporate clients and technology start-ups, to leverage our multi-disciplinary science, technology, and engineering skillset, to help those clients respond to the global challenges of net-zero, sustainability, and the energy transition.\nAs a chemical engineering consultant at TTP, you will work on a range of engineering challenges, using your solid grounding in scientific and first-principles engineering knowledge to identify and develop solutions to real-world problems across a range of industries. 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