Stress Engineer

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Stress Engineer (Mechanical Integrity Engineer) to ensure the integrity and correct mechanical behaviour of products. This includes conducting design analyses, overseeing mechanical tests, and evaluating the life of critical components. Candidates should possess a relevant engineering degree and strong mechanical design assessment skills, preferably with experience in finite element stressing techniques like ANSYS. A commitment to safety and an understanding of product integrity are essential. Hybrid working is encouraged, balancing office and remote work.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Exceptional benefits including bonuses and employee discounts

Good development opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong technical knowledge in mechanical design assessment methodologies.
• Experience with finite element stressing techniques like ANSYS.
• Understanding of material behaviour and thermo-mechanical fatigue.
• Ability to innovate outside established processes.
• Effective communication of complex analyses.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mechanical design and analysis.
• Conduct mechanical experiments.
• Resolve problems through evaluative judgments.
• Evaluate and verify the life of new critical components.
• Take responsibility for defined technical packages.
• Act as a point of contact within the engineering discipline.

Job description

Overview

Stress Engineer (Mechanical Integrity Engineer). Working Pattern: Full time. Location: Derby, Bristol or Glasgow. Rolls-Royce is seeking to recruit Stress Engineers to join our team. This role is known internally as a Mechanical Integrity Engineer.

Mechanical Integrity Engineers ensure the integrity of our products. They predict the mechanical behaviour of components, sub-systems and the whole assemblies, supporting the Design function, taking into account various failure mechanisms (e.g. proof, ultimate, fatigue (low & high cycle), creep etc.) and contributing factors (e.g. vibration, thermal induced loads, inherent manufacturing anomalies, corrosion, extreme operating conditions). They predict the life of critical rotating components and validate them during development and service operation. In addition they model and validate the mechanical and vibrational behaviour of the whole engine system.

The role of a Mechanical Integrity Engineer is expected to influence all stages in the design cycle (to ensure designs are robust, meet requirements and are optimised) through to the product service life and to component disposal.

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

In these exciting roles you will have a chance to ensure the integrity and the correct mechanical behaviour of our products by:

• Conducting mechanical design and analysis. This includes generation and selection of design concepts as well as involvement in further development of numerical models, use of numeral calculation methods, developing of interdisciplinary agreed boundary conditions and implementation into own models as well as into models of other disciplines (e.g. performance), plausibility check of boundary conditions, execution and analysis of numerical model calculations, understanding calculations as well as deriving suggestions for improvements.

• Conducting mechanical experiments. This includes preparation of experiment specification for tests on test rigs and engines, supervision and support of experiments, plausibility checking of results during the execution of the test, analysis and interpretation of test results and comparison with analytical and/or empirical models.

• Resolving problems through evaluative judgements. Analysing factual information from multiple sources, interpreting results and identifying effective solutions by application of technical knowledge, expertise and engineering judgement.

• Evaluating and verifying the life of new critical components, and validating them during customer operation.

• Taking responsibility for defined technical packages/investigations of work providing delivery against programme milestones within agreed cost, timescales and quality requirements.

• Being a point of contact within a given engineering discipline and to share subject matter knowledge across the function. This may include providing advisory services to designated customers, influencing your peer group, representing senior departmental staff and acting as advisor/coach on matters where you are technically authoritative.

• Actively promoting, encouraging and supporting the identification and implementation of continuous improvements (e.g. tools, processes and methods) both within and outside your immediate sphere and prompting action across the wider team.

Who we are 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:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification, or equivalent experience
• Strong technical knowledge in mechanical design assessment methodologies (e.g. stress analysis both static and dynamic, fracture and fatigue assessment) with experience of, or a good appreciation of, finite element stressing techniques (ANSYS preferred) and complex testing (of assemblies, component and materials).
• An understanding of material behaviour, crack propagation, contact, thermo-mechanical fatigue and statistics
• An understanding of cross-discipline engineering concepts which include but are not limited to manufacturing engineering, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, thermal and mechanical analysis, cost engineering and product definition.
• Experience of working with novel designs and problems with the ability to work outside established technical processes, developing these as needed throughout your work.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems and make balanced decisions across technical and business parameters
• An appreciation of the importance of product integrity is considered essential
• Membership of a relevant professional body attained/ working towards Chartered status is preferred
• The ability to effectively communicate the method and results of complex analyses to peers, senior colleagues and external organisations such as customers or regulatory bodies

*To work for Rolls-Royce you may need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance for some roles. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, for some roles you must hold a UK nationality.*

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

Job Category: Field Services. Posting Date: 12 Sept 2025; 00:09. Posting End Date: 31 Oct 2025