Product Definition Engineer - Instrumentation

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading engineering team as a Product Definition Engineer specializing in Instrumentation at a prestigious company in Bristol. You will be crucial in designing and defining components for advanced gas turbine engines. This hybrid role offers exceptional development opportunities and the chance to make a significant impact in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Excellent development opportunities

Competitive salary

Employee discounts

Bonus and support assistance

Qualifications

• Experience in product definition within regulated industries.
• Trained in CAD with experience in component definition standards.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing capabilities related to engine components.

Responsibilities

• Create, review, and approve component definitions and drawings.
• Ensure components meet design intent and manufacturing capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes and tools.

Skills

Product definition experience

Use of CAD tools

Knowledge of engine components

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Self-motivated

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title:

Product Definition Engineer - Instrumentation

Working Pattern:

Full time - Hybrid

Working location:

Bristol

When you join as a Product Definition Engineer in Instrumentation, you'll become a key part of our Test and Experimental Engineering (T&EE) Instrumentation Design team in Bristol, supporting some of the most advanced defence and civil gas turbine engines, you'll produce and check component definitions in-line with company practices to meet design intent, satisfying fit, form and function of the component whilst optimising manufacture, to enable the delivery of fit-for-purpose component hardware ready to be built into test engines.

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 Test and Experimental Engineering (T&EE) Instrumentation Design team.

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 and civil 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:

• Work within the multi-disciplined Instrumentation Design team to ensure new and revised component definitions are fit for purpose (meets design intent, manufacturable etc.) and meet engine build and test schedule requirements for engine programme customers.
  
• Create, review and approve component definition drawings for instrumentation components, ensuring quality and adherence to Rolls-Royce standards is maintained.
  
• Produce tolerance stack-ups to aid new product creation & validation.
  
• Interface with manufacturers to ensure that components are suitably defined and can be manufactured, incorporating their feedback into definitions.
  
• Drive the development and introduction of continuous improvement (of tools, processes, methods and guidance material) within the team to improve team capabilities and efficiency.
  

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 experience in product definition experience in a highly regulated industry.
  
• Trained and experienced in the use of CAD tools, with demonstrable experience of component definition and drawing standards.
  
• A good knowledge of engine components and associated manufacturing capabilities.
  
• An eye for detail and an ability to apply logical, analytical, and innovative thinking to a range of technical problems.
  
• Someone who is positive, self-motivated and driven, able to deliver at pace against fixed timescales.
  

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 strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Rolls-Royce Defence business an individual has to hold a SC clearance.

Rolls-Royce will support the application for SC, 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: 04/06/2025

Job Category

Validation and Verification

Posting Date

21 May 2025; 00:05

Posting End Date

04 Jun 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Product Engineer, Location: Bristol, ENG - BS2 9NX