Product Definition Engineer - Combustion, Turbines & Exhaust

ENGINEERINGUK; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company seeks a Product Definition Engineer in Bristol. This pivotal role involves maintaining component definitions for advanced defence gas turbine engines, ensuring compliance with evolving requirements. Join a collaborative team and enjoy hybrid working, excellent development opportunities, and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Exceptional benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience with CAD systems and engineering drawing standards.
• Confident in managing Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs).
• Understanding of manufacturing principles and design for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs).
• Apply CAD expertise to support design modifications.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams.

Skills

CAD expertise

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Job description

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Job Description

Job Title:

Product Definition Engineer

Working Pattern:

Full time - Hybrid

Working location:

Bristol

When you join as a Product Definition Engineer, you'll become a key part of our Combustion, Turbines & Exhaust Engineering Team in Bristol, supporting some of the most advanced defence gas turbine engines including the Adour and EJ200. You'll be responsible for maintaining and evolving the component definition of mature engine programmes, ensuring designs remain fit for purpose, manufacturable, and compliant with evolving requirements. This is a highly collaborative role where your expertise in CAD, tolerance stack-ups, and engineering drawing standards will directly influence product quality, safety, and performance.

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.

This role sits within our Defence - UK & International Combat business area, supporting a range of mature gas turbine engine programmes, including the Adour, EJ200, and other legacy and naval platforms.

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.

You'll join a highly skilled and supportive team working at the forefront of sustaining critical defence capability, with exposure to a broad range of engine platforms and real-world engineering challenges. We offer tailored training and development to help you grow your technical expertise and progress your career within a global engineering organisation. With hybrid working, access to world-class engineering tools, and opportunities to influence both legacy and future products, this is a role where your impact truly matters.

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

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Take ownership of Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs), updating and maintaining accurate engineering definitions for mature gas turbine engine components.
  
• Apply your CAD and technical drawing expertise to support design modifications, safety alerts, and producibility improvements.
  
• Collaborate closely with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure changes meet design intent and operational requirements.
  
• Grow your career within a global defence engineering business, with access to training, hybrid working, and long-term development opportunities.
  

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 this role you will need to:

• Have proven experience with CAD systems and engineering drawing standards, with a strong attention to detail.
  
• Be confident in managing and processing Drawing Alteration Requests (DARs) accurately and efficiently.
  
• Understand manufacturing principles and design for manufacture to ensure component producibility.
  
• Work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating across design, quality, and supply chain functions.
  

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

To work for Rolls-Royce Defence business an individual has to hold a BPSS clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for BPSS, 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: 02/06/2025

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Posting Date

19 May 2025; 00:05

Posting End Date

02 Jun 2025

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