Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer – High Temperature Research Centre

Full Time

Ansty

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Manufacturing Engineer within our team at the HTRC in Ansty. You will support centre operations, ensuring high quality delivery of research and fast make Turbine component manufacturing activities for our customers.

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.

The HTRC is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Rolls-Royce. The 5,800 sqm Centre is funded through a £40M investment by Rolls-Royce plc, matched by a £20M government grant through the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) and UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF). Housing state of the art design, simulation, casting, machining and advanced metrology capabilities, the Centre, based near Coventry, enables production scale research and experimentation to deliver rapid high-quality product and process innovation for Turbine component manufacture.

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:

Through close interaction with the co-located Engineering community, you will ensure manufacturing processes and product technologies are aligned to Turbines commodity strategies and are capable of meeting the quality, cost, rate and lead time requirements for insertion into current and future engine projects. You will:

Ensure that manufacturing processes and methods are in full compliance to Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm programme.You will develop, implement, validate, maintain and continuously improve manufacturing processes, digital systems and/or methods of manufacture. To ensure they are capable of meeting and continue to meet requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time.Plan and manage activities including schedule, resources and costs, gaining buy-off and communicating current status to relevant stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks are resolved to meet project costs, timescales and technical outcomes.Work with interfacing teams and local experts to ensure technical aspects of manufacturing processes and digital systems are understood and accounted for as required.

What 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.

Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g. UK minimum HND/foundation degree or other national equivalent).Highly motivated with excellent interpersonal skills and drive to deliver within a high-performance environment.General awareness of Manufacturing Systems and enabling software tools relevant to the business.Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a data driven approach to problem solving.Desirable to have experience in a casting or machining manufacturing engineering research or production environment, including delivery of improvement and/ or new part introduction projects.

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: 3rd August

Job Category

Manufacturing Engineering

Posting Date

21 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

03 Aug 2025