Job Description

Job Title: Systems Engineering Opportunities - Submarines

Working location: Cardiff

5 Days On-Site

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Rolls-Royce Submarines based in our new office in Cardiff, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

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.

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.

As we continue to support the Royal Navy as the technical authority to the UK Ministry of Defence for naval reactor plants, we’re also growing our submarine and nuclear sector capabilities.

As part of this we are looking for a number of people with a strong background in Systems & Requirements Engineers.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing:

As a Systems Engineer within the team, you will:

Apply Systems Thinking : Establishing context, hierarchy, and lifecycle of systems. Seeing and defining the whole system, its purpose and functions.
Determine and manage requirements : Elicit and analyse all stakeholder needs, and convert into validated complete set of commonly understood requirements. Structure and manage full system requirements information (including interfaces), and connecting the levels of the system.
Project : Manage your work to time, cost and quality requirements. Set key deliverables and creates robust programme plans.
Collaboration : Contribute effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and understand related technical disciplines. Provide advice and support to Business and Integrated Project Teams. Have a strong collaborative approach, with a desire and willingness to engage internally, with various disciplines. Receive, interpret and convey complex information to, and from, people at a variety of levels.
Responsibility : Act as a point-of-contact, playing an active role in a specific field within an engineering discipline, influencing closely aligned teams and departments. Deal with ambiguity, think innovatively and work at pace within a highly dynamic environment. Have a strategic mindset: the ability to see the bigger picture and consider the business case and market strategy when developing products and services.

Who we’re 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.

Have a strong understanding of Systems Engineering Principles
Be a good communicator, able to engage multiple functions and internally and externally
Be qualified in an engineering discipline
Have a strong delivery record with an understanding of programme management

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

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category

Validation and Verification