Job Title: Control Systems Engineer
Working Pattern: Full-Time, Hybrid
Working Location: Bristol

Grade: SNBG 07-10

Are you passionate about high-integrity engineering and systems that make a critical difference? As a Control Systems Engineer, you will be involved in designing and validating complex control and actuation systems that directly contribute to the delivery and safety of high-performance platforms.

This role plays a pivotal part in translating requirements into robust models and integrated solutions — bringing together software, hardware, and simulation expertise in a collaborative environment.

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.

This role sits within our Defence business, supporting the development and in service support of control and instrumentation systems across a range of high-impact platforms.

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.

In this role, you'll be empowered to drive innovation in control system architecture and design as well as lead investigation in to related customer issues.

You'll be part of a cross-functional engineering team using advanced tools and simulation models, with real impact on design quality, performance, and safety. We offer hybrid working, ongoing training and the opportunity to work across some of the most exciting projects in the defence sector.

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:

• Design and develop gas turbine control systems including their ancillaries and ship interfaces
• Manage the investigation and resolution of issues discovered within the fleet during control system commissioning and service
• Apply systems engineering principles to develop solutions to complex multi-disciplinary problems encompassing mechanical, electronics and software.
• Collaborate across a diverse range of engineering disciplines to ensure system integration and architecture aligns with project needs
• Perform a range of work packages including design, validation and verification using a range of methods and tools, accompanied by high quality technical documentation

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:

• Demonstrate knowledge of control system design, system architecture, and system verification within a relevant industry
• Show proficiency in working with systems engineering tools, robust design methods and processes
• Have experience of delivering solutions within a regulated industry or to certification standards
• Manage tasks through to completion with attention to detail, prioritisation, and a problem-solving mindset, whilst making sound decisions based on balanced assessments of technical and business factors
• Be degree qualified in a STEM subject or show equivalent experience
• Show excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organisation

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.

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.