Safety and Reliability Engineer

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Bristol is hiring a Safety and Reliability Engineer. You will ensure product safety while working with key stakeholders on military projects. The ideal candidate holds a STEM degree and possesses strong critical thinking and statistical skills. This role offers excellent development opportunities and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject or relevant engineering experience required.
• Ability to think critically about system failures and their impact.
• Comfortable with statistical mathematics and uncertainty analysis.

Responsibilities

• Apply Safety & Reliability processes like Hazard Analysis and FTA.
• Work with specialists, including Engineering functions.
• Capture and assess system rejection causes for operational insights.
• Utilize statistical methods for reliability assessment.

Skills

Critical thinking

Statistical mathematics

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in a STEM subject

Tools

Hazard Analysis

Fault Tree Analysis

Quantitative Risk Assessment

FMECA

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Safety and Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Working Location: Bristol/Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join our team in Bristol. In this role, you will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to support critical programme milestones, contributing to the successful delivery of our Defence strategy. Your expertise will help ensure the safety and reliability of our products, enabling our customers to operate with confidence.

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.

Mature Programmes sits at the heart of our Defence business, delivering contracts and supporting our products in day-to-day operations. Ensuring safety is at the core of everything we do allows us to maintain our market position in the Naval, Defence Aero, and Combat sectors.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself—an inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, giving you access to a wide range of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits, including:

• Bonus scheme

• Employee support assistance

• Employee discounts

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working allows our people to 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:

• Apply Safety & Reliability processes such as Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Quantitative Risk Assessment.

• Work with various specialists and senior project figures, including the Life Cycle Engineering and Design Engineering functions.

• Capture and numerically assess system rejection causes to provide insights to the Services organisation for operational availability and cost considerations.

• Utilise statistical methods to assess system reliability and identify potential risks.

• Influence design decisions by evaluating failures and their impact on safety and reliability.

Who We’re Looking For

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Hold a degree in a STEM subject or have relevant engineering experience. Other qualifications, combined with experience, may also be considered.

• Have the ability to think critically about system failures and their broader operational impact.

• Be comfortable with statistical mathematics and uncertainty analysis.

• Possess knowledge of gas turbine engines, including their design, operation, and environment.

• Have a logical approach to problem-solving and the ability to collect, filter, and evaluate data from design, test, and service.

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 provide diverse perspectives, which are crucial to innovation and problem-solving. 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

Closing date: 16/10/25

Job Category: Engineering for Services

Posting Date: 07 Oct 2025; 00:10

Posting End Date: 15 Oct 2025