Lifecycle Engineer - GCAP

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in aerospace and defense seeks an Equipment Health Management Life Cycle Engineer in Bristol. This role focuses on ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of systems through compliance, technical support, and managing lifecycle requirements. Successful candidates will leverage STEM education and engineering experience to influence product design and support customers effectively.

Benefits

Bonus opportunities

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a relevant engineering environment.
• Knowledge of Gas Turbine characteristics and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of EHM systems for safe and cost-effective operations.
• Manage compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Identify and resolve technical issues impacting lifecycle cost and reliability.

Skills

Project management

Technical communication

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Education

Degree in STEM (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical, Controls)

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Equipment Health Management 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, cost effective 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.

The EHM aspect covers the SATAA model – Sense (monitoring and sensing on the product), Acquire (capturing the data), Transfer (accessing the data) , Analyse (interrogating the data) & Act (taking action on the interrogated data).

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

• Equipment Health Management engineers are primarily responsible for leading and integrating the development of end-to-end EHM systems and services, either on-platform or ground-based systems, to help our customers maintain a safe, reliable and cost effective operation.
• Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders.
• Identify, define, elicit, document and manage requirements for Equipment Health Management systems
• Identify, investigate and resolve in-service technical issues (e.g. queries and operational arisings), lead the investigation of operational issues to establish root cause and introduce containment / corrective actions as required.
• Manage any issues that affect the Maturity, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability and Maintainability and maintain Design Intent.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to platform provider, regulators, customers and internal stakeholders.
• Develop and approve the technical content of publications /communications including acceptance limit development.
• Provide technical surveillance and quality assurance audits to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectation.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.
• Influence new product design with in-service experience and develop support strategies across the product lifecycle to suit customer and business requirements.
• Working with partners and Lead System Integrators to deliver integrated EHM solutions
• Utilising Model Based Systems Engineering to develop complex and integrated EHM solutions
• Ensuring EHM solutions support Rolls-Royce’s strategy for electrification and pioneering digital transformation in Defence
• Keeping abreast of related technology developments across all aspects of SATAA and liaising with University Technology Centres (UTCs), developing roadmaps to leverage low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) capability

• This is a highly challenging, varied and interesting role with a strong customer and engineering focus.
• In addition, you will contribute to the development of after-market and support strategy around business, product, customer and industrial relationships, co-ordinate and monitor specified packages of work within a given budget and represent the company and actively participate in a team on or off site to achieve deliverables.

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 or equivalent 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

Closing date - 18/06/25

Job Category Engineering for Services Posting Date 04 Jun 2025; 00:06 Posting End Date 17 Jun 2025