Capability Programmes Engineer

Job Description

Capability Programmes Engineer

Derby – Hybrid 3 days a week on site

Permanent, 37 hours perk week

Rolls-Royce are looking for a Capability Programme Engineer to join our team in Derby. In this role, you will play a key part in researching and developing innovative maintenance, repair, inspection, and digital processes to support our in-service fleet and future aerospace products to support Engineering for Service future strategy.

You will directly contribute to enhancing the performance of Rolls-Royce and its customers and gain valuable hands-on experience in our world-class laboratories.

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer with a passion for problem-solving, collaboration, and technical development to grow their career within one of the most iconic and pioneering companies in the world.

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.

At Rolls-Royce, you’ll join a team where growth and development are at the heart of what we do. From formal training and technical courses to attending conferences, events and hands-on development in our laboratories, you’ll have access to excellent opportunities to build your expertise and shape your career

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

• Research and develop novel maintenance, repair, inspection, and digital solutions to meet business and customer needs.
• Develop novel ideas to help returning service-run a serviceable condition and improve the time in-service of our products, using a variety of manufacturing and laboratory processes.
• Define and maintain technical requirements for component repair, maintenance and inspection processes and ensure compliance with them.
• Verify and validate repair, maintenance and inspection methods, ensuring all engineering, design and specification requirements are fully understood, implemented and recorded.
• Create and maintain strong relationships with customers to ensure technical solutions meet agreed requirements.
• Identify and close technology gaps for novel technologies in the Engineering for Service world and contribute to their industrialisation
• Manage research and technology projects to ensure that activities remain on-time, on-cost, and on-quality.
• Capture intellectual property such as via patent filings to ensure Rolls-Royce are able to access and utilise strategically important technologies.
• Support the academic network including launching new research projects and supervising PhD students working on next-generation technologies.
• Disseminate technical updates through internal forums and, where appropriate, at global conferences and via research papers.

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 shape the behaviours we expect and are key to our assessment process.

Key Experiences and Qualifications

• A relevant technical degree or equivalent industrial experience.
• Knowledge of functionality of relevant components and systems, with consideration of form, fit and function.
• Understanding of system, subsystem and component design, and the impact of repairs maintenance and inspection on the greater system.
• Knowledge of material properties, including chemistry, structure, mechanical and chemical performance.
• A mindset for creating innovative technical solutions with a lifecycle cost philosophy.
• A general understanding of manufacturing processes, with detailed knowledge of those relevant to your role.
• Awareness of regulatory and industry codes/standards (e.g. design codes).

Additional skills and attributes valued in this role:

• Basic understanding of project management principles.
• Basic understanding of digital solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative working style including building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A genuine interest in mechanical engineering and innovation including but not limited to themes such as automation, machine vision, additive manufacture, digitisation.

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