Job Description
Job Title: Structure Control and Configuration Engineer
Working Pattern: Full Time
Working location: Bristol/Hybrid
Join our dynamic Defence team as a Structure Control and Configuration Engineer and play a critical role in managing complex product structures across the entire lifecycle. This position offers the opportunity to work within a design environment interfacing with multiple internal and external customers, ensuring efficient project operation and regulatory compliance.
You'll be responsible for maintaining configuration control over product structures, working collaboratively with Design and Configuration teams to implement changes that directly impact cutting-edge defence technologies. Your expertise will be essential in supporting our mission-critical defence programmes where data integrity and change management excellence are paramount.
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.
Within Defence, System Engineering & Product Performance, configuration is responsible for the identification, creation and change of engine product structures and are relied upon to provide leadership on behalf of the capability and the project to enable efficient change management operation and to ensure data integrity.
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.
You will work in a team of experienced engineers on a variety of topics spanning over all product lifecycle phases, working in a 3D PLM environment. The work will include regular engagement with external and internal stakeholders on topics like data exchange, process interfaces and supporting digital improvement workstreams. This role offers exceptional professional growth opportunities within a small, dynamic and friendly team working in an agile environment supporting various cross-functional tasks.
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
With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:
Own and manage relevant product and development structures, maintaining configuration control over their lifecycle while ensuring product structures reflect current approved configurations
Implement project configuration policies and work collaboratively with design and development functions to incorporate design intent into Rolls-Royce product structures
Provide guidance and leadership on change management to enable efficient implementation of product changes, checking and approving change packages prior to incorporation
Analysing component designs to determine the mass properties and integrating these into assemblies/modules/engines.
Engage with customers and suppliers to define interface standards and enable information exchange, including 3D geometry and Digital Mock-up (DMU) requirements
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.
To be successful in this role you will need to:
Hold a Bachelor's degree, equivalent qualification or relevant working experience
Demonstrate technical knowledge in configuration and change management with understanding of cross-discipline engineering
Show the ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on technical problems and make balanced quality decisions across technical and business parameters
Possess good communication skills and can interact with colleagues in a clear and concise manner
Have good stakeholder influencing skills with a focus on quality and data integrity
To work for Rolls-Royce you may need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance for some roles. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don't currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, for some roles you must hold a UK nationality.
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.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
Job Category
Validation and Verification
Posting Date
16 Jul 2025; 00:07
Posting End Date
29 Jul 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Data Engineer, Location: Bristol, ENG - BS2 9NX
