Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer

Bristol
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Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer

Full-time

Bristol

Future Programmes UK and International is at the heart of securing the future growth of the Defence business. We are delivering tomorrow's technology fast, by bringing together the company's best engineers, programme managers and business professionals. Working in partnership with Governments, primes and new technology companies across the globe, we deliver future solutions, new and innovative power and propulsion concepts, technology, and applications to meet the customers emerging requirements.

The Systems Engineering, Validation & Verification group is recruiting Systems Engineering & Verification Engineers to fulfil exciting roles across our Defence Programmes. In all areas, these roles involve working with a range of key business stakeholders to support the delivery of key programme milestones, thus enabling the delivery of our Defence Combat strategy for the next 50 years. This is how we create brilliance, which we should sell by letting the facts speak for themselves.

Rolls-Royce's customers and the company have entrusted us to deliver the future technologies, people, processes and programmes. Successful delivery of these programmes will ensure both the UK and Rolls-Royce retains combat capability, ensuring freedom of action for the UK and enabling the company to maintain our market share in the Naval, Defence Aero and combat markets.

As a Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer you will be the focal point for understanding and developing new engineering products and services. As part of this role, you will be expected to interface across a number of stakeholders both internally and externally within the company to extract and understand technical requirements and work alongside these stakeholders to develop potential solutions which can be used to serve business and customer needs. As part of this new team, you will be exploring and developing new system engineering practices within the company such as the use of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to assist in the understanding of potential business and technical architectures and solutions.

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

Lead Systems Engineering across the entire life-cycle. Integrate with and provide systems engineering coaching or training to engineers from other functions.Facilitate the elicitation, maturation and validation of stakeholder requirements including customer, business, and technical to ensure robust problem and solution space understanding.Establish and maintain an appropriate information structure for the project (Customer, Business, System, Sub-System, and Component) and develop / maintain associated management plans.Develop product verification strategies and compliance statementsEnsure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain and timescale) are identified, managed, and escalated in accordance with the risk management planDeploy and evaluate new SE tools, such as MBSE, on agreed programmesRepresent Rolls-Royce as required on specific customer and partner working groups related to the project
Who we are 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.

Be qualified to degree level in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, Electrical or Controls).Be capable of systems level thinking and have evidence of experience deploying Systems Engineering techniques to solve complex problemsHave evidence of ability to communicate and collaborative effectively across different engineering disciplinesPreferably have a broad understanding of Gas Turbine functional operation and physical characteristics.Preferably have experience using Systems Engineering tools such as IBM DOORS or Cameo Systems Modeller and knowledge of standards such as ARP4754A/ED-79A
To work for Rolls-Royce you may need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance for some roles. 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, for some roles you must hold a UK nationality.


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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Validation and Verification

Posting Date

28 May 2025; 00:05

Posting End Date

10 Jun 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Aeronautical Engineer, Location: Bristol, ENG - BS2 9NX

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