Plant and Equipment Engineer - Submarines

Job Description

Job Title: Plant and Equipment Engineer - Submarines

Working Pattern: 37 Hours/ days

Working location: Derby Raynesway

We are looking for Plant and Equipment Engineers (P&E) to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business.

Our Submarines Business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. We support the Royal Navy as the Technical Authority for all UK Naval Reactor Submarine Plants, and we're continuing to build our nuclear sector capability to support the development of a new nuclear plant for future submarines.

For you, this means unique opportunities to shape the future of the Submarines business.

Our Plant Engineering capability is key to supporting our nuclear operations in our manufacturing plants, through the design, installation and handover of new assets, or modifications to existing assets, to improve nuclear facilities.

We are looking for engineers to join our team and be responsible for the successful delivery of engineering packages. You will be working across multiple disciplines and lifecycle stages in order to ensure that the areas under your responsibility meet both our engineering and project requirements. You will be able to interact with various stakeholders both internal and external to the business in order to be successful.

We have several vacancies that we are recruiting across all our programmes including design of new nuclear facilities as part of our site regeneration ambitions and improving the capability and resilience of our existing facilities. These roles may involve leading the development of new plant & equipment, delivering engineering projects from requirements capture through to operational handover, or acting as the Intelligent Customer for key facility capabilities (eg Clean Rooms). You will join an expanding Plant Engineering community and will have the opportunity to work across different areas - the specific role will be dependent on the balance of skills and experience of all successful applicants as well as those of our existing teams.

Although experience of working with nuclear facilities is certainly advantageous, we invite applications from those that are interested in redeploying their existing capabilities from other industries and sectors in a new area. What is most important is having the right approach; you need to be someone who gathers all the required expertise and stakeholders together and can understand and organise a variety of technical information to deliver the right solution at the right time. Key skills and experience that we are interested in includes: electrical; controls & instrumentation; civil and structural; fabrication and welding; HVAC, services and utilities; and machine tool maintenance. You may have a background in designing, specifying or servicing plant & equipment relevant to the operation of a factory.

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.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, 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 will be doing:
Elicitation, creation and maintenance of technical requirements and associated verification & validation activities.Working with specialist engineering input to create an integrated engineering solution.Ensuring that the engineering solutions meet all project and technical (inc. safety) requirements.In time and under formal appointment acting as an intelligent customer for activities carried out by suppliers/partners to ensure compliance with design intent, safety requirements, legislation and standards.Provision of expertise to other engineering packages.Working with the project management team to ensure that schedules, risks, costs and resource requirements are understood and maintained.Ensuring that regulatory and legal requirements are met throughout.
Who we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
You will have formally recognised qualification relevant to your engineering discipline, or evidence relevant experience in the field.Qualifications relating to health and safety such as IOSH or NEBOSH are desirable.Experience of producing and reviewing health and safety documentation.You should be able to demonstrate an ability to deliver projects successfully.Experience of multiple stages within the engineering lifecycle is advantageous.Experience of working with the supply chain and contractors is beneficial.
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

Transformation & Operations

Posting Date

07 Oct 2025; 00:10

Posting End Date

17 Oct 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Equipment Engineer, Location: Derby, ENG - DE23 8NX