Safety Engineer Submarines
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Safety Engineer - Submarines
Full Time / hybrid
Derby UK
Why Rolls Royce
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safety Engineer to join Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby.
Were a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navys nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.
Join us and well 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.
We are looking for a capable and proactive individual to join our growing team and be responsible for ensuring that the safety and governance are defined implemented and managed.
What we offer
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. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office home or another remote location. Its a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum were all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons on average three days per week.
What youll be doing:
You will be producing Safety Cases for new Nuclear Manufacturing Facilities;
- Adopting Inherent Safety and Defence in Depth approach to the development of modern standard Right First Time holistic Safety Cases.
- Integrating cross-functional learning from Nuclear Radiological Environmental and Process Safety Relevant Good Practice (RGP) and shaping holistic safety processes.
- Undertaking multi-stage hazard studies and analysis to determine fault and consequence scenarios and resulting in engineered and administrative prevention and mitigation measures.
- Liaising with design and project engineers to ensure that safety is baked into new facility design.
Who we are 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.
- Degree in Engineering or Science discipline or equivalent
- A demonstrable ability to work in multidisciplinary teams to tight deadlines
- The ability to provide clear concise and accurate technical reports
- Previous safety experience in the nuclear industry or other high hazard industry.
- Experience or knowledge of hazard identification techniques such as FMEAs HAZOPs Fault & Event Tree Analysis and reliability evaluation methods.
- Experience or knowledge of hazard assessment processes including design basis assessment techniques (e.g. production of fault schedules the derivation of safety functional requirements) and As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) assessments.
Were an equal opportunities employer. Were 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 well be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at
To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you dont currently already have this in place.
Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.
For further information please contact: Donna Kelly
Job Category
Safety & Product AssurancePosting Date
16 Dec 2025; 00:12Posting End Date
Key Skills
- ADAS
- System Design
- Distributed Control Systems
- Technical Writing
- Systems Engineering
- Requirements Management
- OSHA
- Sensors
- Signal Processing
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- Programmable Logic Controllers
About Company
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