Nuclear Facility Plant & Equipment Engineer - Submarines

We are looking for a Nuclear Facility Plant and Equipment Engineer to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business. This engineering role is an important part of a once in a lifetime major infrastructure programme replacing the current facilities on a Nuclear Licensed Site with modern state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities. It would be ideal for someone who wants to ensure that our facility designs are realisable, practical, and consider all technical and non-technical aspects.

Our Submarines Business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. We support the Royal Navy as the Technical Authority for all UK Naval Reactor Submarine Plants, and we’re continuing to build our nuclear sector capability to support the development of a new nuclear plant for future submarines. For you, this means unique opportunities to shape the future of the Submarines business.

The function of this role is to ensure that our engineering solutions within nuclear facilities are designed for all aspects such as construction, commissioning, maintenance and decommissioning. This will require the ability to integrate different technical disciplines and work with specialists to ensure the design decisions are optimal from all perspectives. The ideal candidate will have both a strong technical background as well as effective soft skills. You will be working across multiple disciplines and lifecycle stages to ensure that the areas under your responsibility meet both our engineering and project requirements.

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.

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.

• Elicitation, creation and maintenance of technical requirements and associated verification & validation activities.
• Working with specialist engineering input to create an integrated engineering solution.
• Ensuring that all phases of the lifecycle have been considered within designs.
• Ensuring that the engineering solutions meet all project and technical (inc. safety) requirements.
• Acting as part of the intelligent customer for activities carried out by suppliers/partners to ensure compliance with design intent, safety requirements, legislation and standards.
• Provision of expertise to other engineering packages.
• Working with the project management team to ensure that schedules, risks, costs and resource requirements are understood and maintained.
• Ensuring that regulatory and legal requirements are met throughout.

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.

• You will be qualified to degree level or equivalent in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant highly-regulated engineering environment.
• You will also be a Chartered Engineer or hold an affiliate/associate membership of a relevant professional body or be working towards Chartered/Incorporated status.
• You should be able to demonstrate multi-disciplinary knowledge of a wide breadth of engineering topics relevant to methods, techniques and best practice relating to civil, mechanical, process, and electrical engineering for nuclear or other complex manufacturing facilities.
• Understanding of the safety and environmental considerations for nuclear or other highly-regulated industries.
• You should be able to demonstrate an ability to deliver projects successfully.
• Experience of multiple stages within the engineering lifecycle is advantageous.
• Experience of working with the supply chain and contractors is beneficial.

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 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 individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.