Optimisation Engineer - Submarines

Rolls-Royce; West of England; Hybride; GBP 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Résumé du poste

Rolls-Royce invites applications for an Optimisation Engineer based in Bristol/Cardiff. You will join the Platform Engineering Team to work with the MoD, delivering evidence-based maintenance requirement optimisation and reducing maintenance volume to improve platform availability.

You will conduct investigations with peers to identify optimization opportunities, lead technical communications, and support the development of health-monitoring capabilities.

Qualifications

• UK Submarines experience (Navy, MOD, Prime Industry Partner) recommended.
• Degree or equivalent in Engineering or Numerical field.
• Experience with complex, novel tasks in in-service environments.
• Knowledge of maintenance requirements and regulatory considerations.
• Proven troubleshooting and problem-resolution skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams including suppliers and customers.
• Familiarity with health monitoring or lifecycle management concepts.
• Experience with report writing and technical documentation.

Responsabilités

• Provide technical support to resolve queries and operational arisings.
• Lead investigations to establish root cause of issues.
• Predict reliability and safety performance using statistical methods.
• Identify cost-reduction opportunities by reviewing maintenance policies.
• Manage issues affecting maturity, lifecycle cost, reliability and maintainability.
• Provide lifecycle data and modelling for through-life performance and optimization.
• Prepare technical communications for regulators, customers and internal stakeholders.
• Lead integration of Health Monitoring system requirements.
• Identify requirements for new Health Monitoring capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements; act as Technical Authority where delegated.
• Gather in-service data and implement continuous improvement through Best Practice.

Connaissances

UK Submarines experience

Engineering or numerical mindset

Components & systems functionality

Ambiguity handling

Regulatory & compliance awareness

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Maintenance requirements

Safety Case experience

Investigative mindset

Report writing

Formation

Engineering or Numerical degree

Outils

Azure DevOps

Description du poste

Job Description

Job Title: Optimisation Engineer

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Bristol/Cardiff

The Platform Engineering Team (PET) is a team that works collaboratively with the MoD on various fronts including the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA); with the goal of delivering evidence-based maintenance requirement optimisation recommendations to the SDA and reduce overall maintenance volume and increase platform availability.

As a part of this team, the successful candidate would be responsible for conducting and completing maintenance requirement investigations with fellow peers that highlight where an optimisation can be made, or prove that the current maintenance is already optimal.

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:

• Provide technical support to help resolve technical queries and operational arisings.
• Lead Investigation of operational issues to establish root cause
• Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerial Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution and fly forward analysis.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.
• Manage any issues that effect the Maturity, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability and Maintainability and maintain Design Intent.
• Provide lifecycle technical data (build/in-service/decommisioning) and model/support modelling of through life performance, deterioration mechanisms and service attributes to create and maintain time on platform prediction, identify opportunities for optimization and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to platform provider, regulators, customers, internal stakeholder.
• Lead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements.
• Identify requirements for new Health Monitoring System or capability.
• Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders. Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning and maintenance activities.
• Gather in-service data and carry out continuous improvement by identifying Best Practice and Learning from Experience activities, feeding back into future programmes and product design teams.

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.

• Experience within the UK Submarines Enterprise (e.g. Navy, MOD, Prime Industry Partner etc)
• Engineering or Numerical degree (or equivalent with experience)
• Knowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods
• Experience of working on complex tasks that are novel and ambiguous
• Familiarity of the in service operation environment, including regulatory and compliance requirements
• Experience in troubleshooting and/or problem resolution
• Experience in support/lead cross-functional teams e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners.
• Experience developing and challenging maintenance requirements.
• Safety Case experience.
• Investigative/Questioning mindset,
• Experience with Azure DevOps,
• Report writing.

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 individualswho are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

NGS 7-9

Job Category

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

14 Oct 2026; 00:10

Posting End Date

28 Oct 2026