Engineering Capability - Governance and Assurance Senior Engineer

Role Overview

Engineering Capability - Governance and Assurance Senior Engineer

Hybrid working with one of the following closest locations as primary: Derby, Warrington or Manchester.

This role delivers clean, affordable energy for all through Rolls‑Royce SMR’s Small Modular Reactor technology, shaping the future of energy generation while creating skilled jobs and advancing technology.

Team

The Engineering Capability team ensures the engineering function has the processes, governance, tools, standards and assurance framework required for excellence. The Governance and Assurance sub‑team drives consistency, compliance, continuous improvement and operational effectiveness across the organisation, supporting a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Support and deliver governance reviews and assurance activities across engineering, ensuring processes are applied consistently and effectively.
• Develop, review, maintain and continuously improve engineering processes, templates, guidance and associated governance documentation.
• Collaborate with assurance, quality, design, and engineering stakeholders to identify gaps, non‑conformances, process inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Investigate process‑related issues, undertake root cause analysis, gather evidence and produce high‑quality reports with clear recommendations.
• Track, prioritise and support the implementation of improvement actions, ensuring recommendations translate into meaningful outcomes.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement activities, gather feedback, promote best practice and support organisational learning.
• Support change implementation activities to embed new processes and ways of working successfully across the business using data, evidence and insight to inform decision‑making.

Qualifications & Professional Development

• An engineering degree or equivalent professional experience within engineering, governance, assurance, quality, operational excellence or a related discipline.
• Working towards Chartered Engineer status or another relevant professional accreditation would be advantageous.

Experience

• Experience contributing to governance, assurance, compliance, quality, continuous improvement, operational excellence or process improvement activities.
• Experience working within engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, aerospace, defence, infrastructure, energy or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience supporting investigations, audits, assessments, process reviews or assurance activities and translating findings into practical recommendations.
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams to implement improvements and drive organisational change.

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of governance frameworks, process management principles, assurance methodologies, quality management systems or business process improvement techniques.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build credibility and productive working relationships across diverse teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings, recommendations and technical information clearly.
• Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills with the ability to assess complex information and identify root causes.
• A structured and organised approach, maintaining high attention to detail while managing competing priorities.
• A continuous improvement mindset coupled with curiosity, resilience and a desire to challenge existing ways of working constructively.

What success looks like

Within your first 6 months

• Establish strong relationships across engineering, quality, assurance and supporting business functions.
• Build a detailed understanding of the engineering process landscape and governance framework.
• Support governance reviews and assurance activities while ensuring actions, outcomes and recommendations are effectively managed and communicated.

Within 12 months

• Contribute to the implementation of process and governance improvements aligned to business strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Support the development of improved guidance, templates, tools and governance arrangements.
• Establish effective stakeholder feedback mechanisms that help identify and resolve process gaps.
• Support assurance and quality teams in maintaining high standards across engineering activities.

Longer‑term

• Become a recognised and trusted member of the Governance and Assurance team.
• Influence improvements to engineering governance and ways of working across the organisation.
• Deliver assurance outputs and recommendations that help shape business decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support a culture of learning, accountability, compliance and engineering excellence.

Location

Hybrid and flexible working arrangements with regular attendance at one of our offices in Derby, Manchester or Warrington. Occasional travel between sites may be required for stakeholder engagement, governance activities, workshops and assurance reviews.

Benefits

• Salary: £50,650 – £66,500 per annum.
• Performance bonus: 12.5 % of salary.
• Benefits allowance: £2,200 per annum (customisable package).
• Pension: 12 % employer contribution and 6 % employee contribution.
• Holiday: 28 days + public holidays, with option to buy or sell up to 4 extra days.
• Private medical insurance: BUPA single cover health care.
• Life assurance: 6× pensionable pay.
• One‑off payment: £250 for new starter home office purchases.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to creating fair, accessible and supportive recruitment processes that enable everyone to perform at their best. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or background.

Application Process

• Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance.
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) screening.
• Financial probity checks.
• These checks are assessed proportionately and are not considered on a simple pass/fail basis.