Job Description

Lifecyle Engineer Secondment Project Rainbow

2 year Secondment (Full Time)

Faslane

Why Rolls-Royce?

It’s not every day that you can say that the work you do helps keep the UK safe, but that is just one of the unique benefits of securing a role within Rolls-Royce Submarines.

The Submarine Availability Initiative (SAI) identified a requirement to improve the Nuclear Steam Raising Plant (NSRP) Technical Authority (TA) representation and input to the planning of Submarine maintenance periods at His Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB). An excellent opportunity has become available for a Lifecycle Engineering Secondee at HMNB Clyde (Faslane). An all-encompassing role where you will be working across a variety of stakeholders including the customers, partners and internal colleagues.

Join us and we’ll 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.

As a Lifecycle Engineering Secondee you will be supporting the main objective of the Rainbow Team enabling Rolls-Royce NSRP system expertise and experience to be applied to the planning of upcoming Base Maintenance Periods (BMPs), with the aim of optimising NSRP maintenance.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What you will be doing:

You will be

• Assist in planning NSRP Maintenance items during BMPs.
• Assist with contract development for R-R work conducted in BMPs
• Optimise planning to achieve programme targets
• Generate and Implement R-R inspections and testing regimes
• Driving out waste from programmes and being a brilliant partner to our customer
• Identifying Availability Optimisation opportunities
• Working with the Joint Project Teams (JPTs).

Who we’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know 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.

• Good communication skills as need to liaise with Babcock, JPTs, Ships Staff and Rolls-Royce (REO(F) IMRS and Derby Availability Centre).
• Sound understanding of the NSRP
• An engineering qualification and skill set
• Good interpersonal skills as need to assist IMRS activities on the Site
• Be able to work in dynamic situations as the plans can change in an instant depending in the situation.
• Desire to broaden your knowledge of working with challenging customers and working in a front line operational SM base.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Staff Grade 6 -10

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll 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 here

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a minimum of an Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.

Grade 6-10

Job Category

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

17 Aug 2026; 00:08

Posting End Date

23 Aug 2026