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Component Repair Engineer – Repair Development

Full Time

Derby

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Civil Aerospace, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

What you will be doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Component Repair Engineer to join the team in Derby.

As a Component Repair Engineer, you will develop repair process definitions and repair sources by optimizing concepts and solutions within agreed engineering and business constraints. You will be enhancing the competitive and commercial performance of Rolls-Royce and its customers and where relevant, it’s Suppliers, across the product life cycle.

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.

Responsibilities

• To develop repair definitions to meet the needs of the business and customers.
• Return service run components back to a serviceable condition utilising various manufacturing/lab processes.
• Define and maintain technical requirements for component repair processes and ensure compliance with them.
• Identify opportunities for new repairs based on the condition of service run components and define the limits within a repair is technically feasible. This can include the definition of dressing geometry or the definition of maximum allowable material removal.
• Verify the repair method. Ensure that all engineering, design and other specification requirements have been correctly understood, accounted for, verified and recorded when defining and implementing the repair method. Ensure equivalency when changing the repair method.
• Definition of the validation and verification requirements for repair definitions.
• Create and maintain relationships with customers through good communication to ensure technical solutions meet agreed requirements.
• Create and maintain relationships with Design Engineers and Product Definers to ensure that repair methods are considered during initial design concepts and any technology gaps resulting from new design philosophy are identified early in the lifecycle.

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.

• Relevant Technical degree or equivalent industrial experience
• Good knowledge of functionality of relevant components and systems with full consideration of the intended form, fit and function of the product.
• Knowledge of System, subsystem and component design and the effect of Repair of components on the greater system, specifying and managing the evolving trade-offs so that the result satisfies the captured requirements.
• Knowledge of materials properties for the selection of material or execution of process. Includes chemistry, structure, mechanical and chemical performance.
• A mindset for creating technical solutions with a Life Cycle Cost philosophy.
• General understanding of manufacturing processes relevant to their business, and detailed understanding of the manufacturing processes relevant to their role.
• Understanding of Regulatory and Industry Codes and Standards (e.g. design codes) relevant to their role.

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 Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 11th August 2025