Welding Engineer - Submarines

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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:

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:

Desirable skills:

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

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

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