Manufacturing Engineer - Tooling Engineer - Submarines in DE23 8NX

Energy Jobline CVL; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering organization in the UK is seeking a Tooling Design Engineer to support component manufacture for submarines. You will engage in the full design process, ensuring compliance with engineering standards and customer requirements. The role offers excellent development opportunities and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree in mechanical engineering or similar relevant discipline.
• Track record of delivering complex engineered solutions.
• Experience in tooling and fixturing design for manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Engage in the full design process from requirements to final delivery.
• Lead detailed design requirements discussions with stakeholders.
• Prepare technical documentation and ensure design process compliance.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Design for manufacture

Health and Safety awareness

Engineering governance

Education

Degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

Teamcenter

NX

Job description

Job Title

Manufacturing Engineer - Tooling Engineer - Submarines

Working Pattern

37 hours

Working Location

Derby / Raynesway

Role Overview

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). In this role you will work to provide bespoke tooling and fixturing in support of component manufacture and assembly. You will interact with the shop floor to ensure the design meets their requirements at concept stage and continues 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

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 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

• 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 and 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, ALARP, design for assembly and maintenance, concurrent engineering, Health and Safety, environmental awareness, lessons learned.
• 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.

Equal Opportunities

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.

Security Clearance

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 or, in MoD approved cases, a dual.

Closing Date

Closing date: 11/11/2025