Job Description
Assistant Chief Engineering – Safety (PWR3 - Dreadnought) - Submarines
Derby, UK
Full time
As the Assistant Chief Engineer – Safety you hold a key strategic role to define, and support delivery of the PWR3 (Dreadnought) Safety strategy and the associated programmes of work.
You will lead and develop a small team and you will have exposure and coverage across all product areas of the business. You will regularly be interfacing external customer stakeholders at all levels, participating in formal reviews associated with safety governance and assurance, and will have the opportunity to travel to customer operational bases. The Assistant Chief Engineer – Safety (PWR3 – Dreadnought) role offers a broad variety of experiences and an excellent platform to develop and progress through the business.
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.
As the Assistant Chief Engineer – Safety you will support both the PWR1 and PWR2, and Dreadnought Chief Engineer’s roles. You will develop and implement the overall PWR3 – Dreadnought safety strategy across the product lifecycle and ensure that the associated solutions are delivered to time, cost, and quality, whilst ensuring appropriate safety and engineering governance is applied. The role line reports to the Chief Engineer PWR1 and PWR2 to enable close strategic alignment with the Safety Case Delivery Team within the Services DBU, provide a clear line of sight for the Dreadnought PWR3 Safety Case at the point of entry into service and to maximise learning from experience from current class safety campaigns. The role takes delegation and functional accountability from the Chief Engineer Dreadnought and will work closely with the Chief Engineer Dreadnought team.
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:
With this attractive opportunity you will have the opportunity to:
- Provide strategic engineering direction for all emergent and planned Dreadnought safety campaigns undertaken by the business.
- Act as the primary point of contact for strategic Dreadnought safety case matters with internal specialists and suppliers, external customers, and other stakeholders.
- Provide safety programme leadership and comply with the Engineering function's policies and within the Chief Engineer’s Terms of Reference.
- Maintain appropriate engagement with internal/external stakeholders, to ensure that nuclear safety case activities being undertaken are correctly focussed, integrated, efficient, and effective.
- Represent the Chief Engineer in discussions with customers and other stakeholders.
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.
To be successful in this role you will need to have:
- Technical Leadership experience in a highly regulated environment Defence/Nuclear/Aerospace/Oil and Gas.
- Knowledge of product safety & regulatory requirements.
- Experience dealing with customers and senior stakeholders meetings/reviews/committees.
- Project Management capabilities and experience.
- Relevant Science/Engineering degree.
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.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.
Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.
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Job Category
Engineering for Services
Posting Date
18 Dec 2024; 00:12
Posting End Date
02 Jan 2025
