Rolls-Royce
Lifecycle Engineer
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Job Description
Job Title: Lifecycle Engineer
Working Pattern: Fulltime
Working Location: Bristol/Cardiff
Working with our customer, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and a broader network of industrial partners, the Submarine Delivery Enterprise (SDE) Collaborative Hub are on a mission to advance the UK’s submarine programme; diagnosing enterprise challenges and working together to deliver sustainable performance of the UK’s number critical defence priorities.
We look across the breadth of the submarine enterprise delivery programmes and our enabling functions to understand how this multi-billion-pound enterprise operates. We use our understanding, data and vast expertise across the collaborative network to draw conclusions, present options and drive sustainable change into our future.
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.
Join us as a Lifecycle Engineer for the Submarine Delivery Enterprise within Rolls-Royce Submarines and you will uncover a unique opportunity to work with wide-ranging stakeholders. You’ll have the opportunity to generate & develop solutions to some of the biggest problems in the Submarines enterprise.
The SDE is tasked with collaboratively enhancing UK submarine operational availability through innovative thinking, challenging the strategic norm & embracing digital technologies.
The SDE team is based in Bristol, UK. Applicants will need to be available to attend on-site meetings 3-days per week with occasional UK travel to enterprise / partner sites. Outside of these requirements, we encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.
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.
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What We Offer:
- Excellent development opportunities
- A competitive salary
- Exceptional benefits including 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:
As a Lifecycle Engineer for the Submarine Delivery Enterprise, you will work with stakeholders across delivery programmes and enabling functions across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise and Industry. It will be your role to identify, analyse & justify enterprise improvements. These can come from across the lifecycle of a submarine, from procurement to recycling, allowing you to develop a deeper understanding of the pan-CADMID requirements of the submarine enterprise and gain exposure across our executive leadership.
Strong experience in quality or reliability engineering practice and engineering problem solving techniques, including root cause analysis, will be key in this role. You will be supported by the Rolls-Royce Lead for SDE. You will be expected to work closely with industrial partners engaged in submarine delivery.
With this exciting opportunity, you will get a chance to:
- Use data analytics and problem solving to analyse the enterprise delivery programmes and enabling capabilities across the Acquisition, In-Service and Recycling portfolio, assessing and diagnosing enterprise health.
- Apply understanding to assess options to do different and redress shortfalls forecast against our future performance.
- Engage with enterprise specialisms to develop options and understanding to propose recommendations to our executive leadership boards.
- Advance recommendations and improvements into formal change projects ensuring project controls and sponsorship is in place to mobilise the initiative.
- Support with the operation of industry and MOD executive leadership boards, informing and facilitating cross-enterprise strategic action across enabling functions and across our total submarine delivery portfolio.
A role in the SDE presents a fantastic opportunity for exposure beyond the boundaries of RRSL and the Nuclear Propulsion Plant working closely across MOD and industry partner organisations. Our Director and executive leadership boards will expose you to how strategic planning and decision making is conducted and executed in both delivery and functional capabilities.
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Who We’re Looking For:
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Stakeholder engagement/management; strong communication skills, the ability to identify and engage relevant people for consultation and ability to translate complex information to clear briefs.
- Operational autonomy and the ability to progress workload independently, synthesising information gained to define and unpack complex & open-ended objectives into actionable plans and scopes of work.
- Experience in quality or reliability engineering practice and engineering problem solving techniques, including root cause analysis, is advantageous; capable of evaluating complex engineering issues and contributory factors across a variety of sources and over prolonged timescales.
- Experience developing new capabilities, processes and/or implementing business change in technical areas would be advantageous.
- Demonstrable knowledge / experience of working in the submarines support sector is a significant asset (e.g. awareness of policies, systems, data, equipment design, operation practices).
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.
NGS 7-9
Job Category
Engineering for Services
Posting Date
18 Sept 2026; 00:09
Posting End Date
02 Oct 2026
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