Product Definition Engineer - Combustion, Turbines & Exhaust

JR United Kingdom; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defence sector is seeking a Product Definition Engineer to join their Bristol team. This role involves maintaining and evolving component definitions for advanced gas turbine engines, ensuring compliance with requirements. The successful candidate will work collaboratively in a supportive environment, with opportunities for training and career development.

Benefits

Excellent development opportunities

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience with CAD systems and engineering drawing standards.
• Confident in managing and processing Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs).
• Understanding of manufacturing principles and design for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs) for gas turbine engine components.
• Support design modifications, safety alerts, and producibility improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams.

Skills

CAD expertise

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Job description

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23.05.2025

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Job Description
Do you have the skills to fill this role? Read the complete details below, and make your application today.
Job Title: Product Definition Engineer
Working Pattern: Full time - Hybrid
Working location: Bristol
When you join as a Product Definition Engineer, you'll become a key part of our Combustion, Turbines & Exhaust Engineering Team in Bristol, supporting some of the most advanced defence gas turbine engines including the Adour and EJ200. You'll be responsible for maintaining and evolving the component definition of mature engine programmes, ensuring designs remain fit for purpose, manufacturable, and compliant with evolving requirements. This is a highly collaborative role where your expertise in CAD, tolerance stack-ups, and engineering drawing standards will directly influence product quality, safety, and performance.
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.
This role sits within our Defence - UK & International Combat business area, supporting a range of mature gas turbine engine programmes, including the Adour, EJ200, and other legacy and naval platforms.
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.
You'll join a highly skilled and supportive team working at the forefront of sustaining critical defence capability, with exposure to a broad range of engine platforms and real-world engineering challenges. We offer tailored training and development to help you grow your technical expertise and progress your career within a global engineering organisation. With hybrid working, access to world-class engineering tools, and opportunities to influence both legacy and future products, this is a role where your impact truly matters.
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
With this attractive opportunity, you will get a chance to:

• Take ownership of Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs), updating and maintaining accurate engineering definitions for mature gas turbine engine components.
• Apply your CAD and technical drawing expertise to support design modifications, safety alerts, and producibility improvements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure changes meet design intent and operational requirements.
• Grow your career within a global defence engineering business, with access to training, hybrid working, and long-term development opportunities.

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 guide us and are essential for our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities we seek for all roles.
To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Have proven experience with CAD systems and engineering drawing standards, with a strong attention to detail.
• Be confident in managing and processing Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs) accurately and efficiently.
• Understand manufacturing principles and design for manufacture to ensure component producibility.
• Work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating across design, quality, and supply chain functions.

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 that 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 realize 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 Rolls-Royce Defence, an individual must hold a BPSS clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for BPSS if you do not already have it. Due to the nature of work and asset protection, we can only process applications from UK nationals or, in MoD-approved cases, dual nationals.
Closing date: 02/06/2025
Job Category: Mechanical Systems
Posting Date: 19 May 2025; 00:05
Posting End Date: 02 Jun 2025