Engineering Technician (Submarines) Derby 2023

An exciting opportunity exists for a high quality, highly committed Engineering Technician to join the Materials, Chemistry & Corrosion department in Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby. We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

The team supports the entire product lifecycle, including design, manufacture, in-service support and decommissioning for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant. Good data management and manipulation skills will be highly beneficial in this role. It is not essential to have a materials science, chemistry or corrosion background but basic knowledge in any of these disciplines will be beneficial in the role.

You will act as technical secretary for project reviews across the scope of the materials, chemistry and corrosion discipline and as a point of contact for incoming queries and track their progress through to resolution, providing metrics on queries completed within the Service Level Agreement timescales.

This is a predominantly office-based role requiring substantial interaction with engineers from a range of disciplines. International and national travel may be required in this role. We offer excellent development, 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’ll be doing

You will maintain databases of technical information such as design data, ensuring the quality of data available is maintained at a high standard.

• Analyse data from product manufacture, operation and testing to generate statistics and metrics.
• Support the introduction of new technologies through the Rolls-Royce Product Change process.
• Support the laboratory team with sample retention and storage, maintaining consumable stocks and ensuring equipment availability.
• Support continuous improvement activities.

Who we are looking for

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• You will be educated to A-level or equivalent in an engineering or scientific discipline. Further Higher Education qualifications such as HND would be beneficial. Preferably, you will have relevant industrial experience in an engineering environment.
• You will be able to communicate technical and non-technical information effectively, both in written and verbal formats.
• You will be proficient in the use of standard PC-based software applications.
• A basic understanding of statistics would be highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of the use of Excel Visual Basic for Application (VBA) and Azure DevOps would be beneficial.

We’re 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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.