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Working across the multiple Enterprise Partners to ensure that Submarine maintenance periods meet the requirements to support safe Submarines at sea.\nAs part of the team, the successful candidate would be responsible for engaging with the Enterprise partners to successfully manage medium to long-term projects on behalf of the Design Authorities (DA’s), through to a successful output. The individual will also seek opportunities to highlight efficiencies within both the ISM and DA processes and ways of working and feed back the relevant LfE.\nWhy Rolls-Royce?\nRolls-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.\nWe are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.\nWe 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.\nWe’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.\nWhat we offer:\nWe offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.\nYour 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.\nWhat you will be doing:\nThis role is a staff grade two-year secondment working within the In-Service Submarines Secondary Propulsion Design Authority team based at MoD Abbey Wood in Bristol. It provides the successful candidate with an opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, dealing with engineering challenges to ensure submarine platforms are available for national tasking. The role offers development opportunities through direct exposure to the inner workings of the Submarine Delivery Agency, and the ability to directly influence submarine availability.\nYou’ll be working for MoD, as a design engineer, ensuring safety first:\nEnsuring Design Authority Requirements are being met\nSeeking opportunities to embed Rolls-Royce best practice within SDA process\nLeading small projects from concept to delivery to improve submarine propulsion plant availability\nAssist in defect diagnosis and rectification including determining potential mitigations and repair options, which might entail travel to UK naval bases. \nProvide technical support to help resolve technical queries and operational arisings.\nIdentify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.\nPrepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to platform provider, regulators, customers, internal stakeholder.\nLead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements.\nIdentify requirements for new Health Monitoring System or capability.\nEnsure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders. Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning and maintenance activities.\nGather in-service data and carry out continuous improvement by identifying Best Practice and Learning from Experience activities, feeding back into future programmes and product design teams.\nWho we’re looking for:\nAt 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.\nExperience within the UK Submarines Enterprise (e.g. Navy, MOD, Prime Industry Partner etc)\nEngineering or Numerical degree (or equivalent with experience)\nKnowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods\nExperience of working on complex tasks that are novel and ambiguous\nFamiliarity of the in service operation environment, including regulatory and compliance requirements\nExperience in troubleshooting and/or problem resolution\nExperience in support/lead cross-functional teams e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners.\nExperience developing and challenging maintenance requirements,\nSafety Case experience,\nInvestigative/Questioning mindset,\nExperience with Azure DevOps,\nReport writing.\nWe are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. 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