Job Description
Fitter Balancer
Full time- (3-shift pattern, mornings afternoons and nights, 37h/week)
Derby, fully site – based
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fitter Balancer within Rotatives UK and Compression.
Reporting to the Production Leader, using both drawings and technical instructions, Fitter / Balancers play a key role in ensuring components are correctly assembled and balanced, in order to control rotating forces on bearings and reduce engine vibrations.
Applying appropriate Health and Safety practice and maintaining a safe environment at all times is vital and working as part of an integrated team to achieving cell targets is critical to our success.
Working within a small team across three shifts you will be required to carry out both static and dynamic balancing across a wide range of engine products using simulated rotor tooling on both vertical and horizontal balancing machines.
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.
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:
The role incorporates interstage fitting of assemblies as well as bonding of weir seals.
Fitting techniques include interference fitting, swaging, riveting and general bench fitting across a broad spectrum of components. You will also:
- Follow all Health, Safety and Environmental procedures and regulations, maintaining a safe clean and tidy work area.
- Interpret Manufacturing drawings, technical instructions and written specifications.
- Deliver right first time quality for each operation.
- Work within an integrated team to achieve cell objectives.
- Quality check own work and complete relevant documentation accurately.
Who we are 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.
- A recognised Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent. *
- An awareness of HS&E requirements.
- An ability to work in a motivated team environment.
*Required: Please attach copies of your certificates (both apprenticeship and NVQ level 3/equivalent) as proof of completing your qualifications together with/next to your CV.
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.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
Job Category
Factory Staff
Posting Date
20 Dec 2024; 00:12
Posting End Date
15 Jan 2025
