Manufacturing Engineer - Tooling - Submarines
Location: Derby, Raynesway
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Job Description
In this role, you will design and acquire specific expertise in product tooling & fixtures supporting the manufacture and delivery of Nuclear Steam Raising Plants. You will execute Manufacturing Engineering activities to develop, maintain, and continuously improve tooling & fixtures to aid manufacturing processes, methods of manufacture, or delivery of the product. Additionally, you will provide technical support to ensure tooling & fixtures are capable of meeting and continuing to meet business and customer requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate, and lead time (SQCD).
What you will be doing:
1. HSE: Ensure that manufacturing processes are in full compliance with Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm programme.
2. Product Safety: Ensure that tooling & fixtures are capable of achieving and sustaining the product design intent, and that procedures and processes are followed to ensure our products and those of our suppliers conform to their specifications. Rigorously raise, investigate and resolve safety-related issues.
3. Quality: Work with all functions to reduce risk and drive product Right First Time. Ensure compliance with all relevant company, legislative, and technical policies and standards including RRMS, GS3001, and Export Control and Intellectual Property requirements.
4. Technical Authority: Ensure application of the tooling & fixture process controls within your area of accountability, with authorisation subject to appropriate delegation.
5. Requirements: Identify and develop opportunities for new or improved tooling & fixtures to allow manufacturing processes, digital systems, and technologies to meet current or future requirements, including the creation of Statement of Requirement (SoRs) for manufacture of tools & fixtures for the external supply chain.
Who we're looking for:
* Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g., UK minimum HNC/Foundation Degree or other national equivalent)
* Recognised national or international engineering accreditation (e.g., UK IEng or CEng)
* General understanding of manufacturing processes relevant to the business
* General awareness of Manufacturing Systems and enabling software tools relevant to the business
* Understanding of Manufacturing Engineering processes relevant to the role
* Experience in NX and tooling/fixture design is highly desirable.
* Project management experience working in a manufacturing environment, dealing with multiple customers/suppliers simultaneously, with excellent written and oral communication skills.
Key Technical Skills:
* Authoring Tooling Design Specifications
* Design for Special to Product Tooling
* Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
* Experienced in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) & Design for Manufacture (DFM) fundamentals
* Safety Awareness, both conventional and Nuclear safety
* Understanding and interpretation of customer requirements
We are an equal opportunities employer, 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 welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
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 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 UK nationals or, in MoD approved cases, dual nationals.
Job Category: Manufacturing Engineering
Posting Date: 10 Apr 2025; 00:04
Posting End Date: 13 Apr 2025
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