Assistant Chief Lifecycle Engineer - Submarines

ENGINEERINGUK; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Assistant Chief Lifecycle Engineer to join their innovative SSNA Chief Engineering team. This role is crucial in enhancing submarine availability by influencing design for maintainability and reliability. You will collaborate with key stakeholders, including the MoD and BAE Systems, to optimize the Naval Reactor Plant's through-life aspects. The position demands a pragmatic engineer with strong communication skills, ready to tackle complex challenges in a fast-paced environment. Join a company committed to safety, innovation, and diversity, and make a significant impact on national security.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Flexible working arrangements

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with Naval Reactor Plant is highly desirable.
• Ability to make informed decisions and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead Integrated Product Support programmes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to find effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to project teams.

Skills

Engineering degree

Problem-solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Planning and organizing

Technical leadership

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Chartered Engineer Status

Job description

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Assistant Chief Lifecycle Engineer - Submarines

Job Description

Assistant Chief Lifecycle Engineer - SSNA

Full Time

Derby

Why Rolls Royce?

A vacancy has arisen for an Assistant Chief Lifecycle Engineer to join the SSNA Chief Engineering team based in Derby.

The SSNA submarines will be the largest, most advanced, and most powerful attack submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy, combining world-leading sensors, design, and weaponry in one vessel. At the heart of the platform is the Naval Reactor Plant, for which Rolls-Royce is the sole provider and Technical Authority. Not only is this the UK's largest submarine programme to-date, it's also one of the largest engineering programmes in the country and will provide a significant contribution to the UK's defence and national security to the end of this century.

We have an exciting opportunity in the SSNA Chief Engineering team in a key role responsible for improving submarine availability, by influencing design to consider maintainability, supportability, operability, and reliability principles. Improvement in the availability of the submarine flotilla is one of our customer's key priorities and in this position you will be responsible for ensuring we meet their expectations.

You'll be working with key stakeholders across the Rolls-Royce Submarines business and wider enterprise, including the MoD, BAE Systems and Babcock, to ensure all through-life aspects of the Naval Reactor Plant are optimised to achieve this outcome. You'll be the driving force behind these activities, and to succeed, you'll be an experienced and pragmatic engineer, with excellent communication skills, as collaboration is essential as part of this role. You will provide technical leadership and support to the programme teams to enable delivery of these activities through alignment of key business areas and supporting functions. We're expecting that you'll be up for the challenge that a complex technical programme with tight timescales brings.

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.

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'll form a key part of the SSNA Chief Engineering team and be responsible for setting the technical direction and enabling delivery of the Integrated Product Support programmes of work across the business. You'll be an experienced and pragmatic engineer that's able to identify and deliver solutions to complex problems, often requiring innovative approaches affecting multiple stakeholder groups.

• Developing the strategy and providing technical leadership for the Integrated Product Support programme of work for the SSNA Naval Reactor Plant
• Working closely with key stakeholders (internal and external) in a collaborative manner, to ensure effective solutions are identified and the 'best-for-enterprise' solution adopted
• Representing Rolls-Royce at senior external meetings with the SSNA Support Integrator organisation (comprising MoD, BAE Systems and Babcock).
• Ensuring LfE from in-service platforms is considered and implemented on the SSNA programme where appropriate.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce the maintenance burden associated with the Naval Reactor Plant and enabling delivery of associated work packages.
• Ensuring environmental, sustainability and disposal aspects are appropriately considered for the Naval Reactor Plant.
• Providing technical leadership and supporting the project teams to ensure successful and timely delivery of work packages and ensuring the required level of quality is achieved.

Who we are 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.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Engineering degree or equivalent.
• Detailed knowledge of the Naval Reactor Plant is highly desirable.
• The ability to initiate strategies for solving complex problems and the making of accurate decisions and recommendations.
• Self-starter who can take the initiative and make risk-based, informed judgements, whilst recognising when to escalate or consult specialists and subject matter experts.
• Ability to work effectively across a range of tasks and collaboratively with stakeholders from multiple disciplines, both internally and externally.
• Strong planning and organising skills to manage short, medium and long-term activities and deliverables.
• Chartered Engineer Status in relevant discipline preferred.

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

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

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

28 Apr 2025; 00:04

Posting End Date

05 May 2025

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