Nuclear Design Engineer

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Nuclear Design Engineer is responsible for creating designs for components, assemblies, and systems, along with justifications to meet requirements related to life, cost, availability, and safety. The engineer will create solutions considering the full life cycle. Responsibilities include understanding requirements, producing design solutions, collaborating with stakeholders, and integrating knowledge from manufacturing and service engineering. They must also check the completeness and correctness of designs.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Engineering or equivalent.
  • Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
  • Apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking.
  • Knowledge of product integrity / liability and justification.
  • Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle.
  • Experience of Research and development, analytical and test verification activities.
  • Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.
Perks:
  • Excellent development opportunities
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Employee support assistance
  • Employee discounts

Job Details

Job Description

Job Title: Nuclear Design Engineer

Working Pattern: Days

Working location: Derby

The Nuclear Design Engineer is responsible for the creation of component/assembly/systems designs and associated through life justification that meet their requirements and product attributes, ie life, cost availability and safety margins. The Nuclear Design Engineer shall create solutions and justifications that are robust against variation, taking account the full life cycle (concept to disposal). The role will cover the nuclear plant and associated support equipment, such as, but not limited to, production tooling, assembly/disassembly equipment and in service maintenance equipment.

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.

What you will be doing:

With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to be involved with the following:

  • Understand Product system / sub-system requirements and derive Component requirements at task level.

  • Produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.

  • Collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.

  • Search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.

  • Understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.

  • Liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.

  • Check own and others design a solutions for completeness and correctness.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce 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:

  • Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.

  • Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.

  • An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.

  • Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.

  • Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.

  • Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activities supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance /refit activities and dealing with operational issues.

  • Experience of Research and development, analytical and test verification activities.

  • Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, 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 Rolls-Royce Submarines, you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. 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, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Posting Date

16 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

30 Jun 2025

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