Casting Specialist

Rolls-Royce plc; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is looking for a Casting Specialist – Processes & Furnaces to provide technical expertise in casting technology for turbine components. Responsibilities include leading capability development and problem-solving in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have an engineering degree, chartered status, and experience with vacuum furnace systems. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement and exceptional benefits.

Benefits

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of casting technology and furnace equipment.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders.
• Experience with vacuum furnace equipment specification and validation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise as a casting process specialist.
• Support the strategy and execution in casting technology.
• Lead capability development projects.

Skills

Casting technology

Furnace equipment expertise

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Problem-solving

Education

BEng degree or equivalent

Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Tools

Vacuum furnace equipment

Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join Rolls-Royce as a Casting Specialist – Processes & Furnaces. The individual hired into this role will be recognised as an authoritative source of technical expertise and advice within the business and viewed as a key member of the broader technical and leadership teams.

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

Providing technical expertise as a casting process specialist with a particular focus on furnace equipment technology for single crystal (SX), directionally solidified (DS) and equiax (EQX) casting of Turbine Components, some of the accountabilities in this role include:

• Strategy: Supports the development and execution of the strategy with respect to their area of specialism; is regarded as a thought leader.
• Project Definition: Leads the definition of capability projects including capturing requirements, creating proposals, achieving stakeholder approval, acquiring funding and aligning partner support.
• Capability Development: Supports the development and application of new capabilities; leads capability development projects.
• Problem Solving: Leads the resolution of new and emerging technical, compliance and business problems using analytical processes and professional judgement.
• Collaboration: Proactively accesses internal and external networks of fellow specialists to further the understanding of the specialist subject; supports the implementation of strategic collaborative relationships.
• Leadership: Provides technical direction to peers and more junior professionals, and technical leadership to teams and projects within their specialism.
• People Capability: Supports the definition of skill and professional knowledge within their area of specialism; identifies, co-ordinates and delivers training; supports the development of other specialists; provides active mentoring.
• Standards Definition: Ensures appropriate policies, standards and best practices are defined, shared and adopted.
• Knowledge Sharing: Leads the sharing of Best Practice; represents the area as an authority in their defined subject; provides concise justification for decisions; records and captures salient information in reports and systems.

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.

• Professionally qualified Engineer (UK minimum BEng degree or other national equivalent, higher degree preferred).
• UK CEng (Chartered Engineer) or other national equivalent relevant to specialist subject area.
• Typically a member of relevant professional body/institute at Fellow level (or equivalent).
• A deep understanding of casting technology and furnace equipment ideally with application to vacuum furnace casting of nickel-based superalloys used in Turbine Component manufacture.
• A proven ability to influence at all levels within a business and with key external stakeholders to deliver manufacturing yield improvement through continuous improvement and process control
• Lead the industrialisation of new manufacturing technologies for step changes in product and process capability using the TRL process.
• Experience in the specification, purchase and validation of vacuum furnace equipment ensuring the highest level of process safety and control
• Understanding of Intellectual Property and Export Control requirements.

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.

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.