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Job Description

Job Title: Control Systems Engineer

Working Pattern: Full-Time, Hybrid

Working Location: Bristol

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
  
  

• 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
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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