Design Integration Engineers

Rolls-royce; West of England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Annual Leave

Retirement Savings

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Employee Shares Matching

Job summary

Rolls‑Royce Defence is seeking a Product Design Integration Engineer to work across subsystems and the entire product to enable the delivery of our defence combat strategy. You will design, develop and verify products at turbine, propulsion, transmission, and integrated-system levels, ensuring robust, certified solutions for highly regulated environments.

Role requires a STEM degree, 3–5 years’ experience, strong numeracy, and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a STEM subject.
• 3–5 years minimum experience in an engineering environment.
• Highly numerate with strong technical and analytical skills.
• Excellent written, interpersonal and presentation communication.
• Ability to work accurately and at pace, leading project work when needed.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and understand problems using Systems Engineering principles (Safety, Quality, Requirements).
• Understand product interactions across platform, system, sub-system, component levels.
• Define and document requirements, including lifecycle context.
• Define and interpret product definitions and documentation.
• Engineer complex electro, fluid, thermal, and mechanical systems.
• Integrate at platform and customer environments across sub-systems and components.
• Develop robust, risk-managed solutions incorporating new technology.
• Support Validation and Verification activities.
• Create justifications for release to service.
• Support products in production and service.

Skills

Numerate

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Systems thinking

Communication skills

Education

Degree in STEM

Job description

We are specifically looking for Product Design Integration Engineers to work at subsystem and system level where you'll play a vital role in enabling the delivery of our Defence combat strategy for the next 50 years. You would work to design, develop and verify the product subsystem at the Turbine & Combustion, Compressor & Propulsor, Integrated System or Transmission & Structures levels and at the whole Product level.

What you will be doing:

In this role, you will be accountable for:

• Systematically investigating and understanding problems; Safety, Quality, Customer Requirements and Business Requirements using Systems Engineering principles.
• Understanding our products and their interactions at platform, system, sub-system, component, component feature and manufacturing process level.
• Defining and documenting requirements, including operational and lifecycle contexts.
• Defining and interpreting product definition and documentation.
• Demonstrating ability to engineer complex (electro, fluid, thermal, mechanical) systems.
• Integrating outward to platform and the customer environment and inwards through product systems, sub-systems and components.
• Defining creative, robust, optimised, solutions managing risk and applying new technology as appropriate to deliver quality within highly regulated industries.
• Supporting Validation and Verification activities.
• Creating justifications for release to service.
• Supporting products in production and service.
• Degree level qualified in a STEM subject and experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical or Controls). Other qualifications, in combination with relevant experience, may also be considered. Experience with electrical machinery (desirable).
• 3-5 years experience minimum.
• Highly numerate with good technical and analytical skills, problem-solving ability and capable of systems level thinking. Excellent communication; written, interpersonal and presentation skills, and will need to be able to contribute effectively in a team environment.
• Able to work accurately and at pace. Driven to succeed and can take the lead in identifying project requirements, specifying and executing packages of work.
• At Rolls‑Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls‑Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Regional Benefits:

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls‑Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls‑Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free!

To work for the Rolls‑Royce Defence business, you will need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance. Rolls‑Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.