Safety Coherency Engineer - Submarines in Helensburgh

Working location: Faslane/Glasgow

Working Pattern: Full-Time

At Rolls-Royce we have an exciting opportunity for a Safety Coherency Engineer to join our team in Faslane/Glasgow. This opportunity has arisen at our Faslane site supporting the NRPA and Babcock to enhance the company's performance on product safety, and to implement the organisation's safety management system across the Clyde Base Community. This is a truly unique opportunity offering the chance to work directly with customers, suppliers and partners sharing knowledge and expertise with a wider UK Safety Team.

Regional Benefits

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• You will be defining technical packages/investigations of work providing delivery against programme milestones within agreed cost, timescale and quality requirements;
• Applying safety or plant engineering experience to identify effective solutions to problems relating to our safety management systems;
• Point of contact locally for safety management and to share subject matter knowledge across the function;
• Providing advisory services to designated customers, influencing their peer group, representing senior departmental staff and acting as advisor/coach on matters where they are technically authoritative;
• Actively promoting, encouraging and supporting the identification and implementation of continuous improvement (of tools, processes and methods) both within their immediate sphere of safety management specialist and outside, and prompt action across the wider team.

Basic And Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of Nuclear Safety Case or Plant Operator experience (Category A or B Nuclear Watchkeeper) - or relevant experience;
• Nuclear Plant or Site Safety Case writing background;
• Customer, Supplier or Stakeholder management experience at all organisational levels;
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and certification frameworks;
• Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.

For more than 60 years Rolls-Royce Submarines has designed, supplied and supported the nuclear propulsion plant, providing power for all UK Royal Navy nuclear submarines. To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t already have it. Due to the nature of work we conduct, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive. 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.