Lead Engineer - Integrated Product Support

At Rolls‑Royce SMR, our mission is to deliver clean, affordable energy for all. Our Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme provides a British solution to the global energy crisis — an innovative, low‑carbon technology designed to help secure energy independence and support the journey to Net Zero. We are proud to be at the forefront of the UK’s emerging SMR sector and are on track to become a world leader in SMRs and the UK’s premier green‑export technology.

The Team

You will join our Integrated Product Support (IPS) Team, part of Nuclear Engineering & E3S Analysis. The team’s mission is to ensure that reliability, maintainability, supportability and plant availability are embedded throughout the SMR design lifecycle. They shape how the power station will be operated, maintained and supported, ensuring it remains safe, efficient and cost‑effective across its full lifetime. Your work will directly influence design decisions, outage strategies, maintenance planning, and the development of the wider support solution.

Role Summary - Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of clean‑energy infrastructure. In this role, you will bring strategic insight, technical depth, and structured thinking to guide the design of the RR SMR power station. Your expertise in supportability, maintenance strategy and availability modelling will play a critical part in ensuring our plant meets demanding performance and operability targets. This role is integral to the success of the programme and offers a unique chance to influence decisions that will impact the UK’s energy landscape for generations.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and providing reliability, maintainability and availability inputs to design teams, including design assessments, modelling activities and stakeholder reviews.
• Leading or supporting maintenance strategy development, including conducting FMEA and RCM studies, and rationalising maintenance tasks into an effective, auditable schedule.
• Maintaining and validating Outage Schedule Models, ensuring they reflect evolving designs and meet target outage durations.
• Contributing to the development of the Support Solution, including spares, training, documentation, resourcing and maintenance task planning.
• Managing your own technical work scope, including planning, risk management and delivery of high‑quality engineering outputs.

The Impact

Your work will directly shape the operability and maintainability of the RR SMR power station influencing everything from system design to outage execution. By ensuring availability targets are realistic, traceable and evidence‑based, you will help secure long‑term performance, operational efficiency and regulatory confidence. This is a role where your expertise creates tangible, lasting impact on the UK’s future clean‑energy capability.

Essential Qualifications

• Technical experience in Integrated Product Support, Integrated Logistics Support, Supportability, Reliability Engineering, Nuclear Operations or Outage Planning.
• Demonstrable experience applying FMEA, RCM, availability modelling, fault trees or RBDs.
• Experience working with complex engineering design teams and contributing to design reviews.
• Strong ability to produce structured, high‑quality technical documentation for decision‑making and assurance.

Location & Ways of Working

We offer hybrid and flexible working, with offices in Derby, Warrington and Manchester. The level of office presence will be discussed during the recruitment process to ensure it supports both the role and individual circumstances.

Pay and Benefits

We anticipate paying a salary of between £60,000-£78,750 plus:

• Bonus - Performance related bonus of up to 12.5%
• Benefits Allowance - £2200, enabling you to create a bespoke package
• Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
• Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days
• Family Friendly Policies including: 39 weeks paid Maternity, Surrogacy and Adoption Leave, 6 weeks Paternity Leave, IVF and Assisted Conception, Neonatal Care and more
• Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care
• Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
• £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases

You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:

• A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment.
• Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business.
• A culture that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you. Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch – we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.

Our Application Process

Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:

• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
• Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check

We are Rolls-Royce SMR. A career with Rolls-Royce SMR offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an exciting organisation delivering a transformational mission. Rolls-Royce SMR is a radically different approach to proven nuclear technology. Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will generate 470MW of low-carbon energy - equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes for over 60 years. With its Rolls-Royce SMRs will play a vital role in supporting renewable energy by helping to overcome intermittency and ensure a stable, sustainable energy future.

We’re proud to be one of the few employers that can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation. Our people are here because of what makes them exceptional - and our role is to help them make the most meaningful contribution of their careers, doing work they love. We offer opportunities that go beyond traditional career paths. At Rolls-Royce SMR you can develop your career by exploring roles and challenges that align with your unique talents.

Our culture

At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture.