Component Repair Engineer – Repair Development
// Role Summary
Rolls-Royce is seeking a Component Repair Engineer in Derby to develop and optimize repair process definitions and sources, enhancing the competitive and commercial performance across the product lifecycle.
// Key Responsibilities
- Develop repair definitions to meet business and customer needs.
- Return service-run components to a serviceable condition.
- Define and maintain technical requirements for repair processes.
- Identify and define new repair opportunities and limits.
- Verify repair methods and ensure engineering compliance.
- Collaborate with customers, Design Engineers, and Product Definers.
// Role Specification
Rolls-Royce is seeking a Component Repair Engineer – Repair Development to join their team in Derby. This is a full-time position focused on developing innovative repair solutions that enhance the competitive and commercial performance of Rolls-Royce and its customers throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
- Develop repair definitions to meet the needs of the business and customers.
- Return service-run components to a serviceable condition utilising various manufacturing/lab processes.
- Define and maintain technical requirements for component repair processes and ensure compliance with them.
- Identify opportunities for new repairs based on the condition of service-run components and define the limits within which a repair is technically feasible. This can include the definition of dressing geometry or the definition of maximum allowable material removal.
- Verify the repair method, ensuring all engineering, design, and other specification requirements have been correctly understood, accounted for, verified, and recorded when defining and implementing the repair method. Ensure equivalency when changing the repair method.
- Definition of the validation and verification requirements for repair definitions.
- Create and maintain relationships with customers through good communication to ensure technical solutions meet agreed requirements.
- Create and maintain relationships with Design Engineers and Product Definers to ensure that repair methods are considered during initial design concepts and any technology gaps resulting from new design philosophy are identified early in the lifecycle.
Who we’re looking for:
- Relevant Technical degree or equivalent industrial experience.
- Good knowledge of functionality of relevant components and systems with full consideration of the intended form, fit, and function of the product.
- Knowledge of System, subsystem, and component design and the effect of Repair of components on the greater system, specifying and managing the evolving trade-offs so that the result satisfies the captured requirements.
- Knowledge of materials properties for the selection of material or execution of process, including chemistry, structure, mechanical, and chemical performance.
- A mindset for creating technical solutions with a Life Cycle Cost philosophy.
- General understanding of manufacturing processes relevant to their business, and detailed understanding of the manufacturing processes relevant to their role.
- Understanding of Regulatory and Industry Codes and Standards (e.g., design codes) relevant to their role.
Rolls-Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive. Join us and help shape the future of power, performance, and excellence.