Systems and Verification Engineering - Section Lead, Future Product - Submarines

Job Description

Why the Company?

An exciting opportunity for a Development and Verification Engineer role in the Future Products Team has arisen within Nuclear (Submarines).

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

The Future Product Team within the Nuclear (Submarines) business is looking for a Systems and Verification Engineer as part of the Development Engineering team. Future Product sits within the Technology Department and is responsible for the technology development programmes delivering the next generation of nuclear products across the Submarines Enterprise. We are a small agile team that work across a breadth of technical scope and relish the opportunities of having hands on impact to major engineering programmes straight from the pre-concept phase onwards.

Working closely with adjacent teams across Technology and the specialist taxonomies across the business the Development Engineering team are responsible for defining and implementing the Verification and Validation strategy and key model based engineering enablers for Future Product. This includes the identification and delivery of necessary development programmes to increase verification capability across analysis, test and demonstration where needed.

This exciting opportunity requires innovative, pragmatic, systems thinkers to work together with a variety of teams to understand how novel technologies and products can be validated and modelled for entry into service and associated capability will be required. From bench top test rigs to large scale demonstrators and new analytical and simulation methods, the Future Product V&V programme poses a wealth of opportunities to deliver the next step change in Nuclear technology.

We offer excellent development, 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:

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

• You will be responsible for leading the section developing and delivering model based engineering capabilities critical for delivery of future product. Including Model Based Systems Engineering and associated tools and capabilities.
• You will champion systems engineering methodologies and systems thinking skills to enable ways of working in future product programmes.
• You will work in close collaboration with Verification, Validation and Systems Engineering Capability Leads, to understand existing capability and required capability development to deliver a robust V&V Programme (including Analytical Engineering, Experimental Engineering and Systems Engineering) as well as secondary capability leads where required (e.g. Manufacturing Engineering).
• You will collaborate with other critical enablers work streams of the programme to ensure model based engineering approaches is commensurate with other digital thread capabilities.
• You will identify, develop and implement required workstreams to support the delivery of a Digital Reactor in the early concept phases of future product programmes.
• You will be responsible for resource and work load management and act as the people leader for engineers within the section.
• You will work as a flexible member of the Chief Engineering Team, taking on additional responsibilities across adjacent to daily scope in line with individual interests and business needs as the programme matures.

Who we’re looking for:

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:

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering or science-based subject.
• Understanding of Verification and Validation in Engineering Systems and the role of a V&V within a complex Engineering programme.
• Knowledge of systems, sub-systems and components functionality.
• Knowledge of systems engineering and model based engineering methods.
• Experience of delivering structured verification programmes desirable.
• Experience in working within analytical or testing and simulation capabilities desirable.
• Evidence of working across multi-disciplined teams and projects, working flexibly both as an individual and closely with other team members.
• Good IT skills, experience with dedicated V&V and Systems Engineering software desirable (Including Model Based Systems Engineering and requirements management packages).
• Good interpersonal, time management and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work to company processes in order to ensure quality of output; and to Health, Safety and Environmental rules and legislation.

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. The company 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 the company.