Job Description

Manufacturing Engineer – Capability Acquisition

Full time

Bristol

SNBG 7 - 10

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

An opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Engineer – Capability Acquisition to join the Rolls Royce team in Bristol.

A number of exciting opportunities for Manufacturing Engineering roles are available within our Defence Future Programmes team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work at the frontline, creating, developing and adapting manufacturing processes that will be introduced and used for years to come. You would be responsible for capability acquisition delivery objectives across Manufacturing, Assembly & Test, and Future Programmes, developing capability to sustain and improve current day requirements, as well as developing novel capabilities to enable us to deliver tomorrows technology solutions to meet the customers emerging requirements.

You will be required to interact and manage relationships across various different functions internally and externally, ranging from internal project teams, external research organisations and suppliers to expedite development of capable technologies that can be deployed within our business whilst managing risk, and aligning stakeholders to deliver safely and predictably.

Future Programmes is looking for someone with drive, passion and commitment who can:

• Embrace agility – you will be able to respond quickly to challenges and be able to manage progress despite, missing, ambiguous, or changing requirements.
• Bold – you believe in yourself and the team to bravely push the boundaries, and feel comfortable with ‘failing fast’ to pursue rapid knowledge capture.
• Pursue collaboration – you find strength in working with others, both inside and outside of our business, and value the diversity of people and perspectives.
• Seeks simplicity – you keep it simple and remove complexity, in how you communicate and the way you work.

What you will be doing:

• Create, develop, implement, validate, maintain and continuously improve manufacturing processes, digital systems and/or methods of manufacture which are capable of meeting and continue to meet requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time.
• Ensure that new manufacturing processes and materials are in full compliance to Health, Safety & Environmental Standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm Programme.
• Develop and influence design and manufacturing requirements, through manufacturing trials and working concurrently with a large number of internal and external stakeholders, including the design function, the supply chain and the customer.
• Work with an extensive UK supply chain, and subject matter experts to ensure all manufacturing processes are developed in a manner that meets the business needs of Rolls-Royce, (including taking, Safety, Cost, Quality, Delivery and People into consideration) to enable processes to be integrated to a Rolls-Royce site, if required.
• Identify and develop opportunities for new or improved manufacturing processes, digital systems & technologies to meet current or future requirements.
• Manage and communicate change effectively and regularly, to a wide range of stakeholders, including programme directors, customers and the supply chain.
• Manage budgets, resource and technical content to deliver internal capability, in-line with programme requirements, and present progress reports to key stakeholders.
• Responsible for self-development to meet the required competencies for the role. Provides coaching and technical support to others within their area of competence.

Position qualifications:

• Professionally Qualified Engineer (e.g. UK minimum HND/Foundation degree or other national equivalent).
• Recognised national or international engineering accreditation (e.g. UK IEng or CEng) where available.
• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing processes used within Aerospace (or an equivalent regulated industry) and process development methodologies (e.g. Advanced Product Quality Planning).
• Experience of other advanced or emerging manufacturing technology preferred but not essential.
• General awareness of Manufacturing Systems and enabling software tools used to develop and analyse manufacturing processes (e.g. CAD/CAM, Statistical Process Control).

This role will require you to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.

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.

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: SNBG 7 - 10

For further information please contact: Lizzie Moore - Lizzie.moore@rolls-royce.com

Job Category

Manufacturing Engineering

Posting Date

22 May 2026; 00:05

Posting End Date

31 May 2026