Senior Design Engineer – Hazard Protection (Hybrid)

Rolls-Royce SMR; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus – up to 12.5%

Benefits allowance – £2,200/yr

Pension – 12% employer + 6% employee

Holidays – 28 days + PH

Private medical insurance

Life assurance – 6× pensionable pay

Home office support – £250

Job summary

Rolls-Royce SMR in the UK seeks a Senior Design Engineer – Hazard Protection to develop and deliver hazard protection concepts for a nuclear-scale safe design. You will integrate requirements across disciplines, drive hazard-informed design decisions, and collaborate with regulators to ensure robust safety outcomes.

The role requires experience in complex, regulated engineering and strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering complex design in a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of hazard protection principles and design in complex engineering systems.

Responsibilities

• Support development and delivery of hazard protection and SCCM design solutions.
• Lead and contribute to engineering optioneering and hazard-informed decision making.
• Develop and allocate design requirements across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Manage interfaces between systems, structures and supporting functions.
• Lead and support technical workshops and cross-discipline integration activities.
• Produce high-quality engineering outputs, including design definitions, requirement sets and substantiation documentation.
• Support verification, validation and design assurance activities.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

Skills

Hazard protection

SCCM design

Systems engineering

ALARP/BAT

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-discipline integration

Verification & substantiation

Technical leadership

Design documentation

Project milestones

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Rolls-Royce SMR in the UK seeks a Senior Design Engineer – Hazard Protection to develop and deliver hazard protection concepts for a nuclear-scale safe design. You will integrate requirements across disciplines, drive hazard-informed design decisions, and collaborate with regulators to ensure robust safety outcomes.

The role requires experience in complex, regulated engineering and strong stakeholder engagement.