Composite Manufacturing Engineer – Automated Fibre Placement

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for their Composite Technology Facility in Bristol. The role focuses on developing automated composite manufacturing processes and involves managing work packages across various teams. Successful candidates will contribute to innovative aerospace technologies and enjoy a collaborative and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Excellent development opportunities

Exceptional employee discounts

Employee support assistance

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or relevant discipline required.
• Experience working with CNC machines or robotic arms preferred.
• Familiarity with aerospace management systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Delivery and development of automated composite preform processes.
• Ensure preforming process techniques meet Safety, Quality, and Cost standards.
• Identify opportunities for improved processes using statistical process control.

Skills

Knowledge of automated pre-impregnated composite processes

Understanding of technology readiness levels (TRL)

Manufacturing Engineering experience

Education

Engineering or relevant discipline degree, HND or HNC

Tools

CNC machines

Robotic arms

Job description

Composite Manufacturing Engineer – Automated Fibre Placement

Pay Competitive

Location Bristol/England

Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

Req#: JR6136190
Job Description

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer - Composite AFP

Working Pattern: Standard 37hr/wk

Working location: Bristol/Hybrid (4 days on site + 1 Remote)

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Composite Technology Facility, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

Rolls-Royce are currently developing manufacturing methods, processes and materials for their composite fan blades and fan containment casings. We are currently going through an exciting phase of growth as we deliver composite components and manufacturing programmes across a range of products, including UltraFan Engine demonstrator programme.

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.

The Composite Technology Facility (CTF) is part of our Engineering, Test and Safety business. There is an excellent opportunity for a Manufacturing Engineer to work within our business and within the UltraFan Integrated Project Team. This work will involve the development of the hardware for a Mk2 Engine Architecture as well as a range of other components. The role will be based in CTF Bristol on the Filton site and visits to our offsite facility. It will involve working closely with other parts of the business including Rolls-Royce Derby, external suppliers and the National Composites Centre (NCC).

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.

This roll will give the chosen applicant an opportunity to develop within Rolls-Royce manufacturing team and enable them to influence the creation and delivery of the next generation composite fan system. The successful candidate will manage packages of work within the CTF and be responsible for delivering results across a cross-functional team from Design Engineers, Technical specialist through to Operations and Quality.

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

• Delivery and development of automated composite preform processes including Direct Insertion (through-thickness reinforcement) for a range of components from fan blades to structures and providing a capable method to the operation team in the facility.
• Ensure the preforming process techniques meet our customer’s requirements for Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and Lead time.
• Develop the Technical Package (Equipment Specification, TI’s, PFMEAs, Tooling, Equipment and HSE documentation) to define the manufacturing process and control it effectively.
• Identify opportunities for new or improved process using statistical process control (Ppk and Cpk) to meet current or future requirements whilst sharing best practice across the community.
• Drive the composite process to Zero Defects through cost and quality waterfalls, owning the technology plan and strategy as we head toward industrialising the UltraFan system.

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.

• Engineering or relevant discipline degree, HND or HNC with Manufacturing Engineering experience.
• Knowledge of automated pre-impregnated composite processes techniques including automated fibre placement. Experience working with either CNC machines or robotic arms is beneficial, as well as design of tooling for these processes.
• Understanding of technology readiness levels (TRL) (or similar processes such as MCRL) and driving processes to maturity
• Understanding of the manufacturing engineering toolset to improve processes in our route to zero defects.
• Experience working to aerospace management systems and following process controls.

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

Job Category
Manufacturing Engineering
Posting Date
01 Jul 2025; 00:07
Posting End Date
14 Jul 2025

About the company

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational engineering company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries.

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