Local Technical Specialist – Lifecycle Engineering

Job Title: Local Technical Specialist – Lifecycle Engineering

Working Pattern: Full Time, Hybrid

Working location: Bristol

Grade: Level C

We have an exciting opportunity for a Local Technical Specialist – Lifecycle Engineering to join our Bristol team. This role serves to connect the Engineering for Services (EfS) engineers in the division with the ET&S Capability. On behalf of the Lifecycle Engineering Capability Lead, it is accountable for providing day to day engineering capability support to Lifecycle Engineers supporting the Defence UK portfolio, and on this basis the role resides in the ET&S Engineering for Services function.

This is a key role where you’ll be recognised locally as an authoritative source of technical and procedural expertise, driving standardisation, compliance, continuous improvement and knowledge management across Lifecycle Engineering teams. You will also support day to day product safety activity as required, and coach the next generation of specialists within the discipline.

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.

This role sits within our Bristol site, supporting Lifecycle Engineering capability and service delivery across the Defence UK portfolio.

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.

You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking Engineering for Services team where your insight and expertise will be valued. You’ll have opportunities to shape capability development, influence technical decision making, contribute to key engineering reviews, and progress your career with training and development support in one of the UK’s most respected engineering businesses.

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.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Act as a focused, local expert recognised as an authoritative source of technical and procedural expertise in Lifecycle Engineering within Defence UK

• Ensure work conducted in Lifecycle Engineering teams is standardised and compliant to engineering processes

• Ensure existing capabilities are well understood and utilised by Engineering Managers of retained engineers, and that needs for new capabilities are raised to the Capability Lead for development

• Highlight capability needs required to successfully deliver engineering packages

• Drive continuous improvement and implement effective Knowledge Management

• Share knowledge and awareness of technical problems and issues into related disciplines within a sub-divisional area and/or across divisions

• Support day to day product safety activity as required, acting in a consultant capacity

• Implement local developments in response to challenges, and support other technical specialists pushing the boundaries of the capability

• Actively lead, support and engage with relevant Communities of Practice within Lifecycle Engineering

• Actively coach and support potential future specialists

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 a deep understanding of the whole service domain and full product lifecycle (preferred)

• Be customer focused with a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems

• Demonstrate a strong focus on driving compliance and continuous improvement

• Be comfortable with ambiguity, able to define and implement plans that achieve business intent without detailed instruction

• Be a confident communicator with a positive outlook when presented with challenges

• Be committed to through-life learning for yourself and the wider team

• Be qualified to at least degree level or have appropriate Lifecycle Engineering domain knowledge to facilitate competent management of retained EfS capability

• Have proven, extensive experience in the application, development and sustainment of engineering capability

• Bring a strong working knowledge and experience across the technical skills required for sustainment of engineering capability

• Have experience applying a Systems Engineering approach or equivalent (e.g., Robust Design, Black Belt, PELA, etc.) and be an advocate of OPS and positive change

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

For more information please contact: Lee Taylor