Job Description

Job Description

Safety & Reliability Engineer

Full Time

Derby - Hybrid - minimum 3 days on site per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safety & Reliability Engineer to join our team within the Civil Aerospace division in Derby.

In this role, you will execute activities to assess and influence product safety & reliability attributes of our Civil Aerospace engine products.

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:

As a Safety & Reliability engineer you will ensure that the Safety & Reliability attributes of our Civil Aerospace products, through all phases of their lifecycle, are understood and the risks arising from them are managed to an acceptable level. Tasks will include:

• Evaluation of propulsion system safety using techniques such as Failure Modes Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree and Event Tree analysis.
• Numerical analysis of in-service products utilising probabilistic and statistical data analysis.
• Analysing and quantifying risks associated with human / system interaction including Human Reliability Assessment.
• Investigating and reviewing failed components and deriving root cause.
• Feeding back lessons learnt from service findings to influence future product design.
• Helping to build the safety cases for new and future engine programmes.
• Supporting and influencing decision making through sound engineering and numerical reasoning.
• Implementing the Safety Management System including membership of the Product Safety Review Boards.
• Contributing towards evaluation and exploitation of new and emerging capability in the field of Safety & Reliability.

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.

In addition, the following role specific skills are :

• Qualification to degree level in a STEM subject and with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Mechanical, Aeronautical, etc).
• Good holistic approach to problem solving
• Analytical and logical approach.
• Familiarity with the design, operation and environment of gas turbine engines.
• Knowledge / experience of Safety & Reliability engineering techniques including numerical analysis.

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.

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 strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

18 Aug 2025; 00:08

Posting End Date

03 Sept 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Reliability Engineer, Location: Derby, ENG - DE23 8NX