Assistant Chief Engineer - Advanced Plant Concepts

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Derby seeks an Assistant Chief Engineer for its Advanced Plant Team. You will drive the development of advanced plant concepts, requiring a strong leadership background and expertise in nuclear systems. Ideal candidates should hold a Master’s or PhD and have chartered engineer status. The role offers competitive salaries and exceptional benefits, with flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Excellent development opportunities

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Knowledge and applied experience of concept ideation and maturation.
• Awareness of MoD capability management and equipment procurement.
• Appreciation of engineering analysis methods relevant to nuclear.

Responsibilities

• Drive management of customer scenarios through stakeholder engagement.
• Lead development of advanced plant concepts.
• Provide assurance against portfolio objectives.

Skills

Visionary and competent leadership of people and technical scope

Knowledge of first principles science and engineering

Experience in nuclear power systems

Awareness of product lifecycle engineering processes

Education

Master’s or PhD level technical qualification or equivalent

Chartered Engineer status or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Assistant Chief Engineer – Advanced Plant Concepts - Submarines

Working location: Raynesway, Derby

We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Chief Engineer - Concepts to join our Advanced Plant Team at Rolls-Royce Submarines based in Derby.

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

Reporting to the Advanced Plant Chief engineer, the Assistant Chief Engineer – Concepts will:

• Drive the management of customer scenarios and headmarks through extensive stakeholder engagement
• Drive the development of a portfolio of advanced plant concepts to address those scenarios and headmarks through the leadership of a team of system and concept engineers
• Act as the primary customer to the internal Advanced Plant analysis team for a portfolio of analysis work packages to underpin those concepts
• Govern technical work in accordance with delegated authorities
• Provide periodic assurance against portfolio objectives at internal and external management reviews

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.

For this role specifically, we are looking for:

• Visionary and competent leadership of people and technical scope
• Knowledge and applied experience of first principles science and engineering
• Knowledge and applied experience of concept ideation and maturation
• Knowledge and applied experience of nuclear power systems
• Awareness of MoD capability management and equipment procurement
• Awareness of product lifecycle engineering processes and best practice
• Appreciation of a breadth of engineering analysis methods relevant to the nuclear domain
• Master’s or PhD level technical qualification, or demonstrable equivalent
• Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable equivalent

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 individualswho are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category Group Engineering (Chief Engineer) Posting Date 29 Oct 2025; 00:10 Posting End Date 11 Nov 2025