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New applications engineer at Aavid Thermacore

Thermal Management specialist Aavid Thermacore Europe has appointed a new applications engineer to help support its growing business.

Daniel Allington, a graduate of Northumbria University, joined the Ashington-based company in early January. As applications engineer, it is Daniel’s role to take enquiries from customers who have a problem with thermal management and work to find or create a solution.

Daniel, who has previous experience working as a project engineer within the oil and gas sector had initially applied for a role within the company’s sales department, however, bosses at the firm felt that his skill set would be a better fit for the applications engineer position which was being advertised at the same time.

NPI engineering manager at Aavid Thermacore Europe, Craig Richardson said:

“We have been really impressed with Daniel. Having previously worked within the oil and gas sector, he already had a good understanding of thermal dynamics coming into the job, which has helped him to hit the ground running in his new role.

“Going forward, with the support of our in-house specialists, Daniel will be working on a variety of projects for clients across all of the market sectors we serve. For this, we have been providing Daniel with on-the-job training so that he can further develop his skill set and acquire a broad range of expertise across all of the solutions we provide.”

Daniel said:

“After studying the products and meeting some of the team who work within the business, I was more than happy to get to grips with the engineering side of things. It’s an incredibly exciting time to be working at Aavid Thermacore.”

“The projects I’m working on are quite technically challenging, but the role itself is quite similar to what I have done previously and ties in very well with what I learned at university while studying for my degree in product design engineering.”

Aavid Thermacore Europe delivers a range of thermal management solutions to a wide variety of market sectors including the automotive, aerospace, defence and space industries.

Most notably of late, the company’s pioneering k-Core technology has been used by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of its Solar Orbiter project which is due to launch in 2018.

“As long as excessive heat energy is a by-product of localised power within a system, there will be a need for Aavid Thermacore’s products,” Daniel explained.

“The company’s work within the space and defence sectors was definitely a major attraction for me, but most of all, I wanted to work for a company where there would be enough longevity in the product to start a career.”

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