Safety and Reliability Engineer

Rolls-Royce • Full-time • Bristol Filton (UK-B), United Kingdom • 1w ago

Job Description

Job Title: Safety and Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Working location: Bristol/Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join our team in Bristol. In all areas you will be working with a range of key business stakeholders both internal and external to support the delivery of key programme milestones thus enabling the delivery of our Defence strategy.

Mature Programmes is at the heart of the Defence business delivering the contracts and supporting our products in their day-to-day operations. Supporting today’s products means ensuring Safety is at the heart of everything we do, whilst enabling our customers to keep doing what they need to do. Rolls-Royce’s customers have entrusted us to deliver excellence, successful delivery against these programmes will ensure a satisfied and safe customer enabling the company to maintain our market share in the Naval, Defence Aero and combat markets.

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 Safety & Reliability Engineer supports the team in understanding how the engine or system will deteriorate as it progresses through life and ultimately fail, establishing what the resulting failure effects might be and helping quantify the risk using statistical tools.

Because of the wide range of systems that can fail in an engine, you will interact with a wide range of specialists and senior project figures. Key interactions are with the Life Cycle Engineering and Design Engineering functions. The ability to work with a broad range of specialists and projects and to be able to put multi-layered ideas across to senior engineers is therefore desirable.
Applying Reliability & Safety processes and tools like Hazard Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Quantitative Risk Assessment.
Utilise Safety & Reliability Evaluation using techniques such as FMECA, Fault Tree Evaluation, Quantitative Risk Assessment, and Functional Hazard Assessment
To capture and numerically assess the causes of system rejections and provide them to the Services organisation to allow operational availability and cost to be determined.

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.

You will be educated to degree level in a STEM subject and/ or have experience in a relevant engineering discipline. Other qualifications, in combination with relevant experience, may also be considered.
You need to be able to think about how things can fail as well as how they work. Whether failures are theoretical, or we are responding to actual events, an understanding of failure mechanisms and recognising possible event scenarios is key for this role.
Failures will inevitably influence the product’s operation, so the ability to think “big picture” and to identify how a component failure will escalate to impact the engine, platform, and ultimately the customer experience of the product is required.
Failures are enumerated using statistical mathematics. You should be comfortable with mathematics, and experience with statistical techniques to address uncertainty would be an advantage.
Familiarity with the design, operation and operating environment of gas turbine engines.
A logical approach to problem solving and the ability to collect, filter and evaluate data from design, test and service using various statistical techniques is relevant.
To influence design through understanding how failures will affect system operation, and to evaluate the resulting design, providing feedback on any impact this will have to the safety or reliability of the system.

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.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce