Job Description

Job Title: Plant Health Engineer – Nuclear Facilities - Submarines

Working location: Raynesway, Derby

We are currently recruiting for a Plant Health Engineer to join our Nuclear Design Authority (DA) function team for Rolls-Royce Submarines team based in Derby.

To provide world-class technical support for in-service/delivered products and to influence maturity throughout the product life cycle to meet customer and business needs, ensuring Design Intent is met.

To ensure the safe, reliable and cost-effective product attributes are defined and maintained by means of through life modelling of product reliability, deterioration mechanisms, costs and help implement robust & cost effective solutions.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

Management of known and potential safety issues (SAR & RT) and appropriate involvement in safety boards as defined in Safety Management Plan.
Provide technical support to help resolve technical queries and operational arisings.
Lead Investigation of operational issues to establish root cause.
Introduce containment actions and recommend corrective actions.
Provide technical surveillance and quality assurance audits to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectation.
Develop and approve the technical content of relevant documentation (build/ operation/ commissioning/ maintenance) including operational envelopes.
Set reliability targets based on historical data and monitor performance against targets.
Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates.
Manage any issues that affect the Reliability and Maintainability and maintain Design Intent.
Provide lifecycle technical data (build/ in-service/ decommissioning) and support modelling of through life performance, deterioration mechanisms and service attributes to create and maintain time on platform prediction, and identify opportunities for optimization.
Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to stakeholders.
Identify requirements for new Health Monitoring System or capability. Embed and maintain the health monitoring system.
Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders. Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning and maintenance activities.
Gather in-service data and carry out continuous improvement by identifying Best Practice and Learning from Experience activities.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Engineering or Numerical degree (or equivalent with experience).
Knowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods.
Experience of working on complex tasks that are novel and ambiguous.
Familiarity of the in-service Nuclear Facility operation environment, including regulatory and compliance requirements.
Experience in troubleshooting and/or problem resolution.
Experience in support/lead cross-functional teams e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category

Engineering for Services