Lifecycle Engineer - GCAP

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Life Cycle Engineer to join their innovative team in Bristol. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability and performance of Defence products, where you will work closely with various stakeholders to develop support strategies and influence product design. You'll be at the forefront of engineering excellence, leveraging your STEM background and experience in complex environments to drive improvements and ensure compliance. Join a culture that values diversity and innovation, where your contributions will make a significant impact on the future of engineering.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a relevant engineering environment.
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop service and support solutions for Defence products.
• Manage lifecycle costs and reliability of systems.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications to stakeholders.

Skills

STEM degree

Gas Turbine knowledge

Numerical methods

Cross-functional team leadership

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Degree in Aeronautical Engineering

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Degree in Control Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Life Cycle Engineer

Working Pattern: Full time

Working location: Bristol/Hybrid

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.

Life Cycle Engineers are traditionally responsible for providing in-service technical support of Defence products to ensure their safe, reliable and disruption free operation. Within the future programmes team in Bristol (GCAP), they bring a strong customer and engineering focus to influence the design and to affect the maturity of the product across the life cycle to meet customer and business needs to ensure Design Intent is met.

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 will be doing

As the Customer Engineering interface, you will work with Operators, Partners, Airframers, Regulatory Authorities and Subject Matter Experts to identify and develop through life service and support solutions.

• Influence new product design with in-service experience and develop support strategies across the product lifecycle to suit customer and business requirements.
• Manage issues that impact the Maturity, Supportability, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability and Maintainability of the system to maintain Design Intent.
• Lead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements, including identifying requirements for new Health Monitoring Systems or capabilities.
• Provide modelling of through life performance, deterioration mechanisms and service attributes to create / maintain time on platform prediction, identify opportunities for optimisation and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
• Ensure compliance with requirements and adhere to technical / business requirements of internal & external stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to platform provider, regulators, customers, internal stakeholder.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.
• Set reliability targets (such operational disruption metrics) based on historical data and monitor performance against targets. Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution and fly forward analysis.

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. To be successful in the role you will need to have:

• You will be qualified to degree level in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical or Controls).
• A broad understanding of Gas Turbine physical & functional characteristics, and familiarity of the in-service operation environment, including regulatory and compliance requirements, would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods.
• Experience of working on complex tasks that are novel and ambiguous.
• You will be expected to take the lead in identifying project requirements, specifying and executing packages of work so experience in supporting/leading cross-functional teams (e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners) is desirable

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

Job Category Engineering for Services Posting Date 02 May 2025; 00:05 Posting End Date 08 May 2025