Supply Quality Engineer - Submarines

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Rolls-Royce as a Supply Quality Engineer in the Submarines sector, where you'll ensure quality assurance across the supply chain. This role involves significant travel, engaging with various stakeholders to uphold standards in a highly regulated environment. You'll benefit from excellent development opportunities and a competitive salary in a supportive and inclusive culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Exceptional benefits including bonuses

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Experience in Nuclear Industry preferred.
• Knowledge of Submarines processes and documentation.
• Experience with ISO9001 advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Ensure contractual and regulatory requirements are satisfied.
• Perform surveillance on materials during manufacture.
• Identify and act on non-conformance issues.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Root Cause Investigation

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Degree in Engineering

ONC, HNC with Quality Experience

Job description

Job Description

Supply Quality Engineer - Submarines

Full Time (Regular Travel required with some international travel)

Derby

Job Need Car Provided

This is a unique Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE) role within Rolls Royce Submarines business acting as the face of Quality Assurance across the submarine supply chain. This exciting role will give you experience in the Quality Assurance activities within the submarines nuclear sector.

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.

Supply Quality Engineers (SQE) work within the Performance and Improvement Function in the Submarines business and are responsible for conducting product and documentation verification and final product release to our customers from the Rolls- Royce’s Manufacturing Business Units and the external supply chain. This vacancy is for both internal manufacturing facilities and external supply chain and may include significant amount of travel (mostly domestic) and potentially overnight stay requests of up to 4-5 days a week.

You will work with our Design Authority, Manufacturing Engineers, Supply Chain Planners, and Buyers to ensure that all aspects of manufacture meet the requirements of the product definition and purchase order. The SQE will also experience significant interaction with our customers during the execution of this role.

You will be working in the quality function acting as Quality Assurance for Rolls-Royce Submarines

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 will be supplied a Job need car for this role and expenses for travel. You will learn a wide breadth of standards across the nuclear business and have the opportunity working with a wide supply chain across the UK and abroad.

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

As the Supplier Quality Engineer you will operate as the Rolls-Royce Submarines Independent Acceptance Authority ensuring contractual, customer and regulatory requirements are satisfied. This includes (but not limited to):

• Operating as an Independent Acceptance Authority for all products and services supplied by Rolls-Royce Submarines.
• Performing surveillance on Rolls-Royce Submarines material; both during manufacture and upon completion.
• Identifying and acting where manufacturing facilities and/or suppliers do not meet contractual, customer & regulatory requirements by implementing Rolls-Royce non-conformance processes.
• Representing Rolls-Royce Submarines Quality Division at pre-contract reviews to:

Ensure that purchase order requirements are fully understood by all stakeholders

Plan surveillance based on risk and previous experience of the materiel and supply chain performance.

• Identify and escalate suppliers who do not meet quality expectations by generating and monitoring supplier ‘right first time’ data.
• Contribute to improvement activities by coaching people with their understanding of Rolls-Royce Submarines requirements.

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.

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Experience of the Nuclear Industry is preferred, however engineers from Aerospace, Automotive, Rail, Oil and Gas and other highly regulated industries will be considered.
• Experience of working with Submarines processes, products and documentation is preferred but knowledge and experience working with a variety of manufacturing processes will be considered.
• Experience of ISO9001, root cause investigation would be advantageous but notessential.
• Degree in an Engineering discipline will be preferred or ONC, HNC with significant quality experience.
• UK Driving Licence

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

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance 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 individualswho are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category Quality Posting Date 19 May 2025; 00:05 Posting End Date 26 May 2025