Lifecycle Engineer

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Derby is seeking a Lifecycle Engineer to support the development of next-generation aerospace products. You will work on product opportunity studies, manage product integration, and ensure reliability and maintainability of systems. The ideal candidate has a degree in a STEM field and experience in engineering. This role offers development opportunities and a hybrid working arrangement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical or Controls)
• Knowledge of gas turbines from an in-service perspective
• Familiarity with in-service data sets

Responsibilities

• Support product opportunity studies and programme launches
• Manage integration of future products with their services solution
• Prepare and deliver technical communications to various stakeholders

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Planning and personal organisational skills

Ability to work with minimal supervision

Education

Degree level in a STEM subject

Job description

Overview

Lifecycle Engineer — Full Time, Derby

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Civil Aerospace. applicants should not expect feedback immediately; however, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

What you will be doing

There is an exciting opportunity to work in the Lifecycle Engineering (LCE) Capability Team as a Lifecycle Integration Engineer deployed to support Civil Aerospace product concept design studies and the demonstrator programmes.

Lifecycle Engineering is focused on ensuring reliable, predictable and cost-effective engine operation for our customers. Specifically in this role you will influence the design and development of our next generation of future products, including the UltraFan®.

You will ensure that our future Civil Aerospace products:

• Will be capable of meeting their reliability, availability, maintainability and service cost requirements from entry into service, and
• Are designed cognisant of, and compatible with, our future Civil Services & Support solutions (including any digital services reliant on in-service data generated by the product in-use, e.g. Engine Health Monitoring, part life usage accounting).

You’ll influence the Demonstrator programmes to address key technology and system integration risks that could impede the product’s reliability, maintainability, durability and supportability.

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.

Responsibilities

• Support product opportunity studies, programme launches and associated campaigns.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications to airframers, regulators, potential operators, and internal stakeholders.
• Identify and manage Services-related product risks.
• Manage integration of future products with their 'services solution'.
• Capture the cardinal product-level Services’ requirements; flow down the Services’ requirements to the product-systems and sub-systems using input from specialist areas.
• Share in-service knowledge of existing product fleets.
• Influence Design Engineering to design a product that is capable of achieving Services’ requirements (i.e. ‘Design for Service’, esp. at an architectural level).
• Develop and support verification of product maintainability (on-wing and in-shop) and lead Maintainability Working Groups with Airframers.
• Develop & communicate the Product Maturity strategy for Future Products; influence verification programmes to prove the in-service attributes.
• Provide technical support to manage issues and arisings (FRACAS for Demonstrators).
• Identify capability shortfalls; influence Technology Roadmaps and Integrated Commodity Strategies.
• Influence TRL6 plans to sufficiently de-risk the Technology programmes from the perspective of reliability and durability.

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.

• Qualified to degree level in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical or Controls).
• Knowledge of gas turbines from an in-service perspective (in-use and in-maintenance).
• Candidates should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to use data-driven approaches to inform decisions and capable of systems level thinking.
• Being comfortable with complex tasks that are novel and ambiguous.
• Strong planning and personal organisational skills capable of leading cross-functional teams in a collaborative way and building strong relationships (e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively.
• Working towards a Chartered/Incorporated status or are a Chartered Engineer / hold an affiliate / associate membership of a relevant professional body.
• Familiarity with in-service data sets.
• Result driven, being able to work with minimal supervision; a self-starter with keen attention to detail.

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.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 21st October 2025

Job Category Engineering for Services Posting Date 07 Oct 2025; 00:10 Posting End Date 21 Oct 2025