Lifecycle Engineers

Role Overview

Rolls-Royce is seeking experienced Lifecycle Engineers to support a range of current and future opportunities across our Defence business. Our engineering teams play a critical role in ensuring products are safe, reliable, supportable, and cost-effective throughout their operational life. Working across product development, certification, in-service support, and maintenance programmes, these teams help deliver engineering solutions that support operational readiness and long-term product performance.

We are interested in hearing from engineers with experience in safety engineering, reliability analysis, lifecycle engineering, equipment health management, maintenance strategy, overhaul methods, and supportability. Within Defence UK, Life Cycle Engineers are responsible for providing in-service technical support of Defence products to ensure their safe, reliable, and disruption-free operation. In addition, you will bring a strong customer and engineering focus to influence the design and affect the maturity of the product across the lifecycle to meet customer and business needs.

Join the Lifecycle Engineering capability based in Bristol, United Kingdom, with hybrid working options available.

What you will be doing

• As the Customer Engineering interface, work with Operators, Partners, Airframers, Regulatory Authorities, and Subject Matter Experts to identify and develop through-life service solutions.
• Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders.
• Manage any issues that affect the Maturity, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability, and Maintainability of the product and ensure they are addressed through Design.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g., presentations and/or reports) to platform providers, regulators, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Influence new product design with in-service experience and develop support strategies across the product lifecycle to suit customer and business requirements.
• Identify opportunities for optimisation and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
• Set reliability targets (e.g., disruption metrics) based on historical data and monitor performance against targets.
• Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution, and fly-forward analysis.
• Lead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements, identifying requirements for new Health Monitoring Systems or capabilities.
• Contribute to developing support strategies around business, product, customer, and industrial relationships.
• Co-ordinate packages of work within a budget and represent the company.
• Actively participate in a team to achieve deliverables.

Position qualifications

We are looking for individuals who embody our behaviours: safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference.

• Educated to degree level in a STEM subject and/or have experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical, or Controls). Other qualifications, in combination with relevant experience, may also be considered.
• A broad understanding of Gas Turbine physical and functional characteristics, as well as familiarity with the in-service operation environment (e.g., direct product experience and knowledge of regulatory/compliance requirements) would be advantageous, but training will be provided.
• Highly numerate with strong technical and analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and capable of systems-level thinking.
• Possess personal drive, excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to contribute effectively in a team environment.
• Demonstrate a high level of customer focus, good business awareness, and a clear understanding of process improvement principles.
• Ability to take the lead in investigations, support/lead cross-functional teams (e.g., specialists, suppliers, customers, partners), and specify/execute packages of work.

Security Requirements

To work for the Rolls-Royce Defence business, an individual must 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 the business's conduct and the protection of certain assets, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MOD and Government body approved cases, a dual national.