Producibility Design Engineer (Valves and CMV) - Submarines

Producibility Design Engineer (Valves and CMV)

Full Time

Derby

The Valves and CMV Producibility team has responsibility ownership of the methods of manufacture for SSNA, Dreadnought, and Current Class products.

As the Design Engineer within the team, you will be accountable for developing improvements and embedding them within the method of manufacture in PCO and the supply chain. The Design Engineer will support production issues and implement continuous improvement (of tools, processes, and methods) with prompt action across the wider team.

You will be responsible for providing support to through-life safety issues within the Valves and CMV products.

What you will be doing:

1. To produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.
2. To collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
3. To search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.
4. To understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.
5. To liaise with manufacturing and supply chain to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.
6. To manage work in accordance with project cost, timescale, and quality targets.
7. Responsible for planning, project managing, and delivering technical packages/investigations in line with programme milestones within agreed cost, timescale, and quality requirements.
8. To actively promote, encourage, and support the identification and implementation of continuous improvement (of tools, processes, and methods) both within and outside their immediate sphere and prompt action across the wider team.
9. To support Supplier assessments, qualification, and improvement activities.
10. To define and deliver robust verification, Safety Justification, and qualification strategies and their outputs.
11. To lead the resolution and recovery from emergent issues.
12. To participate in Design support activities during production, build, maintenance, and decommissioning of components.

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.

1. Experience as a design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activities supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance/refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
2. Experience of Research and development, analytical and test verification activities.
3. Knowledge and experience of product integrity/liability and justification.
4. Experience in the development of methods, standards, and processes.
5. Experience of managing work packages and people.
6. Bachelor's degree, Master's, or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.

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.

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.

Job Category: Mechanical Systems Posting Date: 31 Mar 2025; 00:03 Posting End Date: 30 Mar 2025