Manufacturing Engineer Section Lead CMV Submarines
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Manufacturing Engineer Section Lead CMV
Full-Time
Derby (Hybrid)
An exciting opportunity for a Tooling Design Engineer role with our Valves and CMV Producibility Team has arisen within our Submarines division
The Valves and CMV Producibility team owns and develops the methods of manufacture for SSNA Dreadnought and Current Class products playing a critical role in ensuring robust efficient and safe production. As a CMV Producibility Manufacturing Engineer you will drive continuous improvement support production and NPI activities and provide technical leadership to successfully integrate new products while developing capability across the wider team.
What you will be doing:
Develop and assure robust manufacturing solutions that meet specified requirements are tolerant to variation comply with existing standards and create new standards where necessary.
Plan project manage and deliver technical work packages and investigations to agreed cost timescale quality and programme milestones ensuring solutions are complete and correct.
Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders including manufacturing and the supply chain to integrate cross-functional knowledge experience and best practice.
Define and deliver verification justification and qualification strategies and lead the resolution and recovery of emergent technical issues.
Capture manage and reuse manufacturing knowledge while actively promoting continuous improvement of tools processes and methods across the wider team.
Support production build maintenance and decommissioning activities acting in line with company objectives values and professional engineering standards.
Position Qualifications:
To be successful in this role we are looking for someone who is/has:
Bachelors degree or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
An ability to apply logical analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.
Experience as manufacturing engineer operating across the product life cycle undertaking design safety justification activities supporting manufacturing integration maintenance /refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
Experience in the development of methods standards and processes.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
Formore than 60 years Rolls-Royce Submarines has designed supplied and supported the nuclear propulsion plant providing power for all UK Royal Navy nuclear submarines.
To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if you dont already have it. Due to the nature of work we conduct we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or in MoD approved cases a dual national.
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing competitive resilient and growing company. Join us and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful inclusive and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued diverse perspectives fuel innovation and everyone can thrive.
Grade: 7/10
Closing Date: 3rd February 2026
Job Category
Manufacturing EngineeringPosting Date
21 Jan 2026; 00:01Posting End Date
02 Feb 2026Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Embedded Software
- Mechanical Design
- Six Sigma
- System Design
- Employee Evaluation
- FEA
- Process Improvement
- Requirements Gathering
- Signal Processing
- Earned Value Management
- Curriculum Development
- Proposal Writing
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