Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Advanced Plant Analysis - Submarines

Working location: Raynesway, Derby

We are currently recruiting for an Engineering Manager – Analysis to join our team for Rolls-Royce Submarines team based in Derby.

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:

Reporting to the Advanced Plant Chief engineer, the Assistant Chief Engineer – Concepts will:

• Act as the primary supplier of engineering analysis to the Advanced Plant concept portfolio through close stakeholder engagement with the Advanced Plant concept team
• Drive the scoping, delivery and outsourcing of a portfolio of engineering analysis work packages to underpin the maturation of plant concepts
• Act as the primary customer to external engineering resources for a portfolio of analysis work packages to underpin those concepts
• Govern technical work in accordance with delegated authorities
• Provide periodic assurance against portfolio objectives at internal and external management reviews

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.

For this role specifically, we are looking for:

• Visionary and competent leadership of people and technical scope
• Knowledge and applied experience of first principles science and engineering
• Knowledge and applied experience of a breadth of engineering analysis methods relevant to the nuclear domain
• Knowledge and applied experience of nuclear power systems
• Awareness of concept ideation and maturation
• Awareness of product lifecycle engineering processes and best practice
• Appreciation of MoD capability management and equipment procurement
• Master's or PhD level technical qualification, or demonstrable equivalent
• Chartered Engineer status, or demonstrable equivalent

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.

Group Engineering (Chief Engineer)

28 Oct 2025; 00:10

10 Nov 2025