Lifecycle Engineer

Job Description

Lifecyle Engineer

Full time

Derby / Hybrid

What you will be doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team providing in-service engineering support to the Rolls-Royce Civil Large Engine fleet. Lifecycle Engineering is our technical product support organisation focused on ensuring safe, reliable and cost-effective engine operation for our global airline customers.

As the prime engineering interface to the in-service fleet, we are dedicated to providing technical excellence and rapid response towards solving engine technical and operational difficulties - anytime, anywhere, and always in a professional manner. As part of this organisation, you will lead investigations of service events, working closely with Designers, Specialists and our Customer Support organisation.

You will lead investigations of operational issues to establish root cause, introduce containment actions and recommend corrective actions. As well as providing technical surveillance and quality assurance audits to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectation.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Management of known and potential safety issues (SAR & Red Top) and appropriate involvement in safety boards as defined in the Safety Management Plan.
• Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution and fly forward analysis.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.
• Provide lifecycle technical data (build/in-service/decommissioning) and model/support modelling of through life performance, deterioration mechanisms and service attributes to create and maintain time on platform prediction, identify opportunities for optimization and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
• Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders. Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning and maintenance activities.

Who we’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know 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.

• Engineering or Numerical degree (or equivalent with experience)
• Knowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods
• Experience of working on complex, novel and ambiguous tasks
• Familiarity of in-service operation environment, including regulatory and compliance requirements
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Capable of supporting cross-functional teams e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners

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

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