Mechanical Design Engineer (Controls - Repair)

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Mechanical Design Engineer (Controls - Repair)

Full time

Solihull/Hybrid (3 days a week on site)

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Civil Aerospace, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

What you will be doing

An exciting opportunity for a Design Engineer to join the Civil Engineering Delivery Repair (Controls Systems) Team. You will be developing cost-effective repair solutions for Control System Units in Fuel Systems.

The role involves analysing mechanical components, assessing damage, and designing repairs that restore performance while ensuring ongoing compliance with safety requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional team, including maintenance, material specialists and airworthiness representatives to optimize repair processes and extend component life.

Your work will directly impact operation cost, re-use, and resilience in Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) Shops across our Vendor Network.

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.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of repair solutions which meet the design requirements and airworthiness standards to extend component life.
• Identify opportunities for new repairs and develop repair definitions to meet the needs of the business and customers. Return service run components back to a serviceable condition utilising various manufacturing/lab processes.
• Define and maintain technical requirements for component repair processes and ensure compliance with them. Ensure that all engineering, design and other specification requirements have been correctly understood, accounted for, verified and recorded when defining and implementing the repair method.
• Definition of the validation and verification requirements for repair definitions.
• Create and maintain relationships with customers and internal specialists through good communication to ensure technical solutions meet agreed requirements.
• Review repair scheme and substantiation developed by third party supplier. Delegation of Repair Engineer Design is desirable.

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.

• Relevant Mechanical Engineering or Technical degree or equivalent industrial experience
• Design Engineering experience
• Knowledge of Methods/Manufacturing/Repair Engineering is desirable
• Good knowledge of Controls Units, functionality of relevant components and systems with full consideration of the intended form, fit and function of the product.
• A mindset for creating technical solutions with a Service Cost philosophy.
• Understanding of Engine Certification Basis

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

Closing date: 23rd June 2025

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