Job Description

Job Title: Chief Marine Engineer - Automation & Electrical

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Bristol/Hybrid

The Chief Marine Engineer is accountable to RRPS Chief Engineer Mobile for Safety and Fitness of Purpose of NautIQ Solutions products. This critical role requires a proven electrical engineering professional who will drive product safety compliance and lead engineering capability development across our marine automation solutions. You will be at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge naval and marine systems while managing key stakeholder relationships and driving innovation in marine engineering.

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.

NautIQ Solutions is a key business area within Rolls-Royce, specialising in cutting-edge marine automation and naval systems that ensure mission-critical operations across the maritime sector.

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.

This role offers exceptional career development opportunities within marine engineering, working on world-class naval systems with access to cutting-edge technology and innovation. You'll lead engineering capability development while building expertise in marine automation and safety compliance. The position provides extensive exposure to stakeholder management and knowledge leadership across our marine solutions portfolio.

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

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Maintain Product Safety in accordance with Rolls-Royce Policy and relevant legislation while applying HSE Compliance to products
• Lead Capability Leadership and Development of engineering across NautIQ Solutions UK and manage Knowledge Management and IP
• Manage critical Stakeholder relationships between Engineering, Technology & Safety and NautIQ Solutions
• Support Business Capability and Resource Planning to drive strategic engineering initiatives

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.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Hold a Masters or Bachelor's degree in an applicable engineering subject with Chartered Engineer status and significant proven electrical engineering experience
• Demonstrate proven ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on technical problems and make balanced decisions in complex situations
• Possess extensive experience in provisioning optimised design/function solutions with demonstrable understanding of process driven product change control
• Have excellent working-level knowledge of all relevant technical skills with Product Introduction Lifecycle Management experience
• Be a keen advocate of High Performance Culture, creative thinker and pragmatic problem solver with strong focus on driving compliance and improvement

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

Type of Contract

Permanent