• Job Description

  Req#: JR6131903

  Job Description

  Job Title: Component Design Engineer

  Working Pattern: Full-time

  Job Location: Derby

  An Exciting opportunity has arisen for a Component Design Engineer under the Global Mechanical Systems Capability function, based in Derby. You will be joining a leading design team with an aspiration to gain an accelerated learning opportunity in Technical and Functional Leadership.

  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.

  In this role you will deliver design solutions for component(s), complex assemblies and whole engines in consideration of safety, manufacturing capability, product physical and functional robustness. Design solutions also should address Unit Cost, Lifecycle Cost, Weight, Maintainability, Repair.

  • Create and use automated and integrated tool sets. When repeat design is anticipated, create automated work flows to enable the design of the component utilising house style, standard features, and standard assessments to define the optimum design as part of automated MBD, manufacture and measurement definitions.

  • Elimination of Non-Conformance/Zero Defects/Delivery of Producibility within a Manufacturing Environment. This will be through analysing customer and programme requirements, incorporation of manufacturing and measurement process capability into the design solution rationale (DCM) and associated manufacturing definition. Establish and adoption of lean principles like standardisation/house style to achieve deterministic solutions and producible components in a repeatable fashion. Improvements to design methods, rules and tools to achieve robustness. Application of Robust Design, Systems Engineering, (xFMEA) and APQP to ensure right first time can be achieved.

  • Quality Assurance through checking of design documents, models, drawings in accordance with RRMS technical requirements and proactive Zero Defects approaches.

  • For higher graded staff, coaching, approvals and team leading/technical leading more junior team members and support PDRs, Promotional boarding and leadership development.

  Who we’re looking for

  Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role we are looking for someone with:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher with experience with mechanical design content - where the candidate does not hold a degree, relevant experience will be accepted.

  • Previous experience with generic design processes as well as component specific design guidance and design methods and practices, preference with FMEA and APQP knowledge.

  • Appreciation of gas turbine operation and System/Component Design concepts are advantageous.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills that will allow you to integrate with all people throughout the organisation, at all levels, to ensure the effective resolution of design issues.

  • An appreciation and interest for learning and continuous improvement

  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

  Job Category

  Mechanical Systems

  Posting Date

  19 Feb 2025; 00:02

  Posting End Date

  05 Mar 2025

• About the company

  Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational engineering company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries.

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