Job Description

Electrical Safety and Reliability Engineer – Submarines

Derby

Full Time / on-site

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Electrical Safety and Reliability Engineer to join 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 EC&I Systems and Safety team develops the system design, safety case and information assurance case for the Reactor Control and Instrumentation, Power Systems and Plant Sensors for future classes of submarine.

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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What you’ll be doing:

You will be involved in supporting current and future safety campaigns, working closely with key stakeholders to perform electrical control systems safety analysis and manage safety requirements:

• Develop modern standard safety cases.
• Undertake hazard identification and safety analysis.
• Justify that equipment has met its categorisation and classification requirements.
• Work closely with cross functional resource to produce and present robust substantiation (and implementation of engineering change).
• Complete analysis to support criticality safety assessments.
• Complete failure modes and effects analysis, fault tree analysis and functional failure analysis.
• Challenge existing analysis/arguments
• Prepare technical reports and documentation to a standard compatible with engineering best practice.

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.

We are interested in candidates who come from industries such as Civil Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and other safety critical industries.

Required:

• Degree in Engineering, Maths, Physics or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrable evidence of proactivity, determination and delivery focus;
• The ability to provide clear, concise and accurate technical reports;

Preferable:

• Experience or knowledge of hazard identification techniques such as FMEAs, HAZOPs, Fault & Event Tree Analysis, and reliability evaluation methods.

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. 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.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at careers.rolls-royce.com

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Closing Date: 2nd May 2024

#LI-MM2

Job Category

Posting Date