Manufacturing Engineer – Industrialisation/Digital

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer – Industrialisation/Digital

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Derby/Hybrid

An opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Engineer to join the Rolls-Royce team in Derby.

This role presents an exciting opportunity to work at the frontline within the Civil Large Engine Assembly and Test business, creating, developing, and adapting manufacturing processes that will be introduced and used for years to come. You would be responsible for Industrialisation of product and processes with a specific focus on embedding and championing digital systems for manufacturing.

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.

Civil Large Engines Assembly and Test is at the forefront of delivery for Rolls-Royce Civil Aviation. You will work daily on the engine assembly line and directly impact delivery to our airframer customers.

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.

You will execute activities to realise the Digital Manufacturing strategy within the business ensuring that elements are adopted, successfully utilising standard business processes. You will be embedded as part of the industrialisation ME team to act as an informed voice of the customer to identify opportunities for improvement and become a champion to drive changes to improve productivity, engagement with digital systems and influence the digital culture across the facility.

You will be required to interact and manage relationships across various functions, ranging from local business teams e.g. Operations, Planning & Control and Manufacturing Engineering to the wider ETS organisation and IT organisations. You will also have experience of Technology Development and Product Introduction methodologies such as Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process to ensure that all processes deployed are developed in line with industry standards.

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

In this role, you will:

• Ensure that manufacturing processes are in full compliance to Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm programme.
• Ensure that manufacturing processes are capable of achieving and sustaining the design intent and responsible for mitigating against process deviation.
• Operate a culture of zero defects within the organisation. Work with all functions to reduce risk and drive product Right First Time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company, legislative and technical policies and standards including RRMS, SABRe and Export Control and Intellectual Property requirements.
• Identify and develop opportunities for new or improved manufacturing processes, digital systems, and technologies to meet current or future requirements using a systems engineering and data-driven approach which enable industrialisation activities. Develop business cases with benefits assumptions.
• Develop, implement, validate, maintain, and continuously improve manufacturing processes, digital systems and/or methods of manufacture which are capable of meeting and continue to meet requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time. Capture, analyse and use data to demonstrate and improve the current and future capability of manufacturing processes. Where required, support business capital projects to support capacity, business continuity and infrastructure improvements.
• Deploy and implement standardised Digital Manufacturing processes and technologies working across the Commodity and Production lifecycle with Design and Operations functions ensuring business readiness in terms of people and process change to maximise the business benefit.
• Work with interfacing teams, local and subject matter experts to ensure technical aspects of manufacturing processes and digital systems are understood and accounted for as required. Identify, document, and share best practice. Capture and utilise lessons learnt. Ensure all processes are developed in a manner that meets the business needs of Rolls-Royce, to enable processes to be integrated into Rolls-Royce sites and fully realise the benefit. Manage and communicate change effectively and regularly, to a wide range of stakeholders, from operational teams and shop floor facing functions to business leaders. You will build and nurture the digital culture and integration across the facility teams.
• Plan and manage activities including schedule, resources, budget and costs, gaining buy-off and communicating current status to relevant stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks are resolved to meet project timescales. Present progress reports to key stakeholders.

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 and for this role we are looking for someone with:

• Experience of Technology Development and Product Introduction methodologies such as Advanced Product Quality Planning and Production Part Approval Process to ensure that all processes deployed are developed in line with industry standards.
• Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g. UK minimum HND/foundation degree or other national equivalent).
• Recognised national or international engineering accreditation (e.g. UK IEng or CEng) where available.
• General understanding of manufacturing processes relevant to their business.
• General awareness of Manufacturing Systems and enabling software tools relevant to the business.

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

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

Closing date: 28 Feb 25

Job Category: Manufacturing Engineering

Posting Date: 18 Feb 2025; 00:02

Posting End Date: 03 Mar 2025