Welding Engineer - Submarines

Job Description Welding Engineer - Submarines Full Time Derby Why Rolls-Royce? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Welding Engineer to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career. An opportunity exists for a Welding Engineer within New Build and Components DBU. The successful applicant will be working on new technology development programmes specific to welding applications for product to be installed on Nuclear Steam Raising Plants. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work. What you will be doing: Rolls-Royce Submarines has initiated a bold strategy for future technology for welding capability. This is to provide improved operational efficiency, process robustness and resilience to understood business challenges, we’re seeking to establish a welding future capability team to evolve our existing welding and volumetric inspection processes into a ‘green button’ application platform with ‘Right first time’ being assured. From origin, you’ll be a key facet of a dedicated team targeted towards achieving an ambitious automated and digital programme of work. Key highlights of this opportunity are as follows:

• Develop and deploy ‘state of the art’ welding processes
• From first principles, apply digital technologies to ensure a 100% RFT
• Opportunity to interact with Intelligent stakeholder within the wider project organisation
• Direct responsibility for manufacturing capability readiness for new technologies
• Work with both arc and power beam manufacturing applications
• The opportunity to showcase your talents and abilities at the very highest level
• Creation of welding procedures, qualifications, and other cell specific documentation such as PFMEA’s and Control Plans for any new technologies to be implemented
• An opportunity to work closely with other Special Processes engineering disciplines and potentially gain invaluable experience within NDE, Chemical Processing and PWHT
• Opportunity to work with our major technology partners developing new welding capabilities.

Who we’re looking for: 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:

• Given the technical demands within this role, candidates must have a minimum of a HNC (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline
• Fundamental knowledge of DFMEA / Expert Elicitation / PFMEA to influence Product definition / final form manufacture (This is a skill not an accountability)
• Formulate and implement relevant Internal coding requirements to achieve quality objectives
• Develop, implement, maintain and continuously improve manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture
• Fundamental understanding of problem-solving tools plus System Engineering principles
• Responsible for understanding ‘key’ process variables plus the ability to instigate monitoring system to ensure manufacturing robustness
• Define and analyse SPC data to ensure full manufacturing process control
• Identify equipment upgrades / new equipment requirements and manage their validation
• Responsible for defining process methods
• Create / update process documentation & operating procedures
• Ensure processes can meet the requirements for quality, cost, delivery and lead time
• Work with neighbouring special processes such as NDE and chemical processes to assure product integrity.
• Be a change agent for digitising manufacturing joining platforms
• Understanding of design, materials and stress implications for vessel joining

Desirable skills:

• An experience formulating Nuclear standard weld qualifications and the ability to cross reference Internal and International codes to achieve design intent
• Clearly demonstrate a professional history of developing welding manufacturing processes within a Primary Nuclear environment.
• Comprehensive understanding of all welding processes inclusive of Power Beam and solid solution joining

We’re 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. We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at careers.rolls-royce.com To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country. Closing date: 3rd May 2023 Job Category Manufacturing Engineering Posting Date 20 Apr 2023; 00:04