SSNA EC&I Technical Lead

• Working Pattern: 37 hours days
• Working location: Derby

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.

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

• Provide technical programme management and engineering leadership of the EC&I engineering teams assigned to them, ensuring compliance with product safety policies & engineering processes.
• Use systems engineering principles to capture, understand, agree, document, and communicate requirements for the EC&I system and sub-system layers with traceability between the enterprise, business/product, and components layers.
• Lead and support EC&I in the design of the EC&I system and sub-system to deliver all technical attributes in line with customer and business commitments including, drumbeat, availability, delivery confidence, warfighting capability and capability sustainment.
• Define the IPTs scope and deliverables to ensure an EC&I system and sub-system solution that is consistent with the project requirements and demonstrated through structured verification.
• Ensure an integrated programme of work is defined for EC&I and effectively managed to meet the overall programme requirements.
• Manage SSNA EC&I technical risk on behalf of the EC&I CE team to ensure overall business and programme risk levels are acceptable.
• Provide technical leadership, direction, and resolution of technical issues on behalf of the EC&I Assistant Chief Engineer to the system, sub-system and product design teams.
• Deploy and maintain effective physical and functional interface management.
• Manage the interface between EC&I R&T and Strategic Capability to enable the introduction of new technology onto reactor SSNA EC&I to meet the programme objectives.
• Representing the EC&I Assistant Chief Engineer as required.
• Assist the EC&I Assistant Chief Engineer with assuring and managing product safety through compliant use of proven processes and lead closure strategies to timely completion.

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.

• An experienced engineer, ideally within nuclear, or within a heavily regulated industry.
• Experience of electrical & electronics design, justification, and safety case production of complex engineering systems.
• A good understanding of fundamental engineering principles and able to make rational risk-based decisions using analysis, empirical data and engineering judgement and experience.
• The ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and influence a broad range of stakeholders, both internal and external, to deliver the business and project outcomes.
• Be a challenging force to enable simplification and improvements to achieve business and programme outcomes.
• Strong planning and organising skills to manage short-, medium- and long-term activities and deliverables.
• Engineering degree in electrical and electronics, aerospace or equivalent STEM based degree with experience.
• Known for challenging and positively disrupting the status quo to strategic benefit for customers/functions/partners/stakeholders & suppliers.
• Chartered Engineering Status (preferred)

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 Our people | Rolls-Royce

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 Mo D approved cases, a dual national.

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.

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