Fluid System Design Engineer (Section Lead) - Submarines at Rolls-Royce

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

What you will be doing:  

• Section Leader of the Operations Section within the Dreadnought Fluid Systems team – managing the teams’ tasks, deadlines and delivery with the team of ~3 engineers, reporting into the Group leader, acting alongside the GL during people managing and individuals development.
• Be responsible for developing the design phases of the Primary Systems Operational functions, defining the Operating Philosophy for the Dreadnought platforms and taking on Technical Ownership of Protective Safety measure.
• Updating and improving our nuclear safety case documentation, providing the verification and validation of the Operating Principles.
• Define PWR3 operating principles and support the development of Operational Procedures, this will involve collaborations with the Ministry of Defence, third party partners, The Royal Navy, Current Class experienced engineers and future platforms FSE’s too. Supporting the Opdoc Cell in reviewing and structuring operating procedures, working with the Barrow Site office to produce Test Procedures and Temporary Operating Procedures.
• There will be opportunity across the teams to support the Commissioning of the Nuclear Steam Raising Plant’s Primary Systems, this can vary in medium, either remotely via processes such as RRADARs, Technical Queries etc or in person at Barrow Site.

Position Qualifications:  

• Understand nuclear safety case methods, principles, structures and management processes.
• Understand Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics to aid in basic analytical problem solving.
• Have had previous experience with requirements capture and basic task planning.
• Confidently and pro-actively engage within internal and externals stakeholders.
• Be qualified to at least degree level in a relevant (engineering) discipline.