Manufacturing Engineer - Tooling Engineer - Submarines

Rolls-Royce; Derby; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer - Tooling Engineer for its Submarines division in Derby. This role involves designing bespoke tooling for component manufacture, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards while collaborating closely with the shop floor. The position offers excellent development opportunities and a competitive salary in an innovative and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Bonus opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar relevant discipline.
• Experience focusing on complex engineered solutions.
• Knowledge of engineering principles and design for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design process from requirements capture to final design.
• Generate detailed requirements with customers and stakeholders.
• Ensure design processes are followed for quality outputs.

Skills

Mechanical Design

Process Design

Technical Documentation

Project Management

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Teamcenter

NX

Job description

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Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer – Tooling Engineer - Submarines

Working location: Derby/ Raynesway

An exciting opportunity for a Tooling Design Engineer role in the Product Specific Tooling Team has arisen within the New Build and Components Business, in Nuclear (Submarines).

Job Description

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer – Tooling Engineer - Submarines

Working Pattern: 37 hours

Working location: Derby/ Raynesway

An exciting opportunity for a Tooling Design Engineer role in the Product Specific Tooling Team has arisen within the New Build and Components Business, in Nuclear (Submarines).

We’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

In this role, you will work to provide bespoke tooling and fixturing in support of component manufacture and assembly. In this roll you will be interacting with the shop floor to ensure the design meets with their requirements not only at concept stage but post manufacture ensuring all requirements have been achieved

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 Will Be Doing

• Take the journey through the full design process, from requirements capture through to concept, development, and final design stages.
• Lead the generation of detailed requirements with the customer and identified key stakeholders.
• Prepare the technical documentation such as design specifications, justifications and reports as well as procurement specifications.
• Ensure the required design process is followed both internally and externally.
• Drive the technical programme to deliver the required outputs on time, to agreed cost and quality.
  
  

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.

• Degree in mechanical engineering or similar relevant discipline, although experience and capability will be taken into consideration.
• Track record of focusing on delivery of complex, mechanically engineered solutions against specific customer
• Requirements to time cost and quality constraints.
• Technical understanding of process design, mechanical design and substantiation, engineering process, engineering governance, relevant regulations, codes and standards.
• Sound knowledge of engineering principles including design for manufacture, As Low As Reasonably Practicable - (ALARP), design for assembly and maintenance, concurrent engineering, Health and Safety, environmental awareness, lessons learnt.
• Experience of presenting solutions to appropriate stakeholders in gated design reviews, demonstrating that all key requirements have been satisfactorily addressed.
• Experience of Tooling and Fixturing design for component manufacture and assembly (desirable).
• Experience in the use of Teamcenter and NX.
  
  

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.

Closing date:1.7.25

Job Category

Manufacturing Engineering

Posting Date

24 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

01 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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