Job Description
Job Title: Welding Engineer
Working Pattern: Full time
Working location: Derby (Raynesway)
What you will be doing:
As a Welding Engineer, you will influence the design and manufacture of key components that sit within the heart of the Submarines Pressurised Water Reactor system. Ensuring the selection of appropriate welding techniques, processes and procedures. With quality, simplification and delivery at the forefront of their minds, you will drive continuous improvement projects from initial concepts to final completion and implementation. From process improvements to factory performance and flow, they will play a key role in ensuring an uninterrupted manufacturing plant. Liaising with the wider Manufacturing and Engineering teams to provide expertise and knowledge is vital within this role.
Responsibilities:
With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to be involved with the following:
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.
To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
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. 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 Our people | Rolls-Royce
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.
Grade: Level 7-9
Closing date: 26.09.2025
Job Category
Manufacturing Engineering
Posting Date
11 Sept 2025; 00:09
Posting End Date
25 Sept 2025
Job Title: Welding Engineer
Working Pattern: Full time
Working location: Derby (Raynesway)
What you will be doing:
As a Welding Engineer, you will influence the design and manufacture of key components that sit within the heart of the Submarines Pressurised Water Reactor system. Ensuring the selection of appropriate welding techniques, processes and procedures. With quality, simplification and delivery at the forefront of their minds, you will drive continuous improvement projects from initial concepts to final completion and implementation. From process improvements to factory performance and flow, they will play a key role in ensuring an uninterrupted manufacturing plant. Liaising with the wider Manufacturing and Engineering teams to provide expertise and knowledge is vital within this role.
Responsibilities:
With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to be involved with the following:
- Influence the design and manufacture of key components that sit within the heart of the Submarines Pressurised Water Reactor system
- Drive continuous improvement projects from initial concepts to final completion and implementation
- Play a key role in ensuring an uninterrupted manufacturing plant. Liaising with the wider Manufacturing and Engineering teams to provide expertise and knowledge is vital within this role.
- Support a mixture of emergent shop floor issues, from product non-conformance, root cause investigations and cell performance, to supporting welders and managing Welder Qualifications in line with industry and internal standards
- Support manufacturing meetings and reviews with the goal of ensuring SQCDP metrics are on target and in line with business requirements.
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.
To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:
- Competent in identifying, developing, qualifying and justifying welding techniques in accordance with the relevant design code, ideally within a relevant industry.
- Knowledge and demonstrated experience of working to the requirements of boiler and pressure vessel design and manufacturing standards.
- Demonstrates that product and process safety is of paramount importance assuring products meet all regulatory, code, design and manufacturing and Quality Assurance requirements and complying with all applicable legislation and codes of professional conduct.
- Proven ability to define, plan, monitor and control projects, programmes and work packages, ensuring the work is delivered to cost, quality and schedule. As well as communicating complex technical information in a simple and effective way, whilst creating methods of manufacture ensuring delivery of manufacturing capability and business requirements and meeting design intent.
- Ability to integrate well within a large organisation that operates in a high-pressure environment. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are desirable.
- Professional welding qualifications are highly beneficial (e.g. International Institute of Welding (IIW) / European Welding Federation (EWF) Welding Engineer or Technologist status, IEng or CEng status, MSc Welding Engineering)
- Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g. UK minimum HND/foundation degree or other national equivalent) in an engineering discipline.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
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. 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 Our people | Rolls-Royce
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.
Grade: Level 7-9
Closing date: 26.09.2025
Job Category
Manufacturing Engineering
Posting Date
11 Sept 2025; 00:09
Posting End Date
25 Sept 2025