Electrical Engineer (Operational Support) Submarines

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

As an Electrical Engineer (Operational Support) for Rolls-Royce in Derby, you will play a key role in coordinating and resolving electrical defects for submarines. This full-time position involves managing customer queries and technical challenges, requiring strong communication and problem-solving skills. Join a leading company known for its commitment to innovation and safety, where you will have opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Previous submarine operator experience or degree qualified in an appropriate discipline.
• Good communications skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to initiate strategies for solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage resolution of defects, concession requests, and customer queries.
• Assess complex technical issues and manage the response through resources.
• Create, coordinate, and manage technical projects.

Skills

Good communications skills

Problem solving

Managing complex tasks

Education

Degree qualified in an appropriate discipline

Job description

Electrical Engineer (Operational Support) Submarines

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Job Description

Electrical Engineer (Operational Support) - Submarines

Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an

Job Description

Electrical Engineer (Operational Support) - Submarines

Full Time

Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Electrical Engineer – Operational Support to join Rolls Royce Submarines in Derby.

The Electrical Engineer will co-ordinate and resolve submarines electrical NSRP defects / issues. You will manage the resolution of defects, concession requests, customer queries and NSRP issues through the company defect reporting and issues management systems.

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’ll Be Doing

You will have to manage resolution of defects, concession requests, customer queries and NSRP issues through the company defect reporting and issues management systems.

• This involves assessing complex technical issues and making an initial judgement and recommendations on the strategy to be taken to resolve the problem and managing the response through the wider technical community.
• To create, co-ordinate and manage technical projects through a wider network of resources. This involves the identification or assessment of an improvement or opportunity, creation of a high-level set of requirements to achieve the solution, and the technical co-ordination of a wider section of resources through to achievement of the solution.
• To be the direct point of contact between the customer and the wider submarines enterprise, which involves face to face, telephone and e-mail communications between the MoD technical and safety cells, Rolls-Royce site offices and our internal experts in a wide array of technical and project fields.
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for an Electrical Engineer to be a point of contact internally and externally between the MoD and the Technical Authority on all electrical NSRP issues on all classes of submarines both in service and in build, and STF. We are looking for an individual with:

• Previous submarine operator experience or degree qualified in an appropriate discipline.
• Good communications skills, both verbal and written.
• The ability to initiate strategies for solving complex problems and the making of accurate decisions and recommendations.
• The ability to prioritise, manage and control tasks to achieve the business/technical objectives within required timescales
  
  

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

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

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

25 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

02 Jul 2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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