Description
Systems Engineering Opportunities - Submarines
Full Time / Part Time
5 Days On-Site
Glasgow
This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for future positions within Rolls-Royce Submarines based in our new office in Glasgow, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner
Why Rolls-Royce?
Our Submarines business is currently expanding and opening a new Office based in Cardiff in which we are looking for Engineers across multiple engineering disciplines.
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.
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.
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, on average three days per week.
What you’ll be doing :
As a Systems Engineer within the team, you will:
1. Apply Systems Thinking : Establishing context, hierarchy, and lifecycle of systems. Seeing and defining the whole system, its purpose and functions.
2. 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.
3. Project : Manage your work to time, cost and quality requirements. Set key deliverables and creates robust programme plans.
4. 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.
5. 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 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.
6. Have a strong understanding of Systems Engineering Principles
7. Be a good communicator, able to engage multiple functions and internally and externally
8. Be qualified in an engineering discipline
9. Have a strong delivery record with an understanding of programme management
We’re 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
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.
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Job Category
Validation and Verification
Posting Date
27 Jun 2024; 00:06
Posting End Date
12 Jul 2024