At Rolls‑Royce SMR, our mission is simple and ambitious: to deliver clean, affordable and secure energy for all. Our Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology provides a British‑designed, globally impactful solution to the world’s energy and climate challenges. We are proudly positioned to become the UK’s premier green export technology and a world leader in SMR deployment, driving innovation that supports national energy security and accelerates the journey to net‑zero.
You’ll join our Standardisation & Standard Parts team — a group dedicated to reducing product variation, optimising plant‑wide consistency, and driving meaningful cost and workflow efficiencies. This team plays a critical role in ensuring our SMR design is repeatable, scalable and efficient across multiple islands, vendors, and engineering disciplines. The team collaborates widely across Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, CAD, Safety, EC&I, and Civils, acting as a key integrator.
This is a high‑impact engineering opportunity where you will help shape the SMR of the future. In this role, you will champion standardisation, variation reduction, and product optimisation, enabling the business to design and deliver an SMR that is cost‑effective, high‑quality, and globally deployable. Your work will directly influence component interfaces, supplier alignment, engineering efficiency, and the overall maturity of our plant design.
In this role, you will:
-Drive the standardisation strategy, ensuring components and products across the plant follow defined standardisation rules, tools, and processes.
-Review engineering artefacts to identify opportunities to reduce variation and enhance repeatability.
-Optimise product grouping across islands and vendors, highlighting opportunities for simplification, workflow efficiency, and resource/time savings.
-Support the creation and development of the Standard Parts Catalogue and associated engineering tools.
-Produce technical reports, ensuring clarity of compliance, rationale and decisions related to standardisation.
-Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align design approaches, resolve variation issues, and ensure integration across multiple teams.
Your work will directly unlock design efficiency, repeatability, and cost reduction across the entire SMR programme. By simplifying interfaces, enabling consistent design approaches and removing unnecessary complexity, you will help accelerate engineering throughput and improve programme certainty. This is a chance to influence one of the UK's most meaningful clean‑energy programmes — and to see your work directly reflected in the design and delivery of a first‑of‑a‑kind SMR.
We are looking for someone who brings:
We offer flexible, hybrid working with access to offices in Derby, Warrington, or Manchester. Expected on‑site frequency is typically 1–2 days per week, but this will be discussed individually during the recruitment process.
We anticipate paying a salary of between £44,600 - £55,000 DOE plus:-
£42,000.00
£55,125.00
Why Join Us?
You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.
Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch – we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.
Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:
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Climate change and its consequences are one of the greatest challenges ever to face mankind. The global challenge around decarbonisation is huge.
At Rolls-Royce SMR, our vision is simple – we want to provide clean, affordable energy for all.
A new approach to delivering nuclear power
Our Small Modular Reactor is an integrated power station, that takes well understood, existing nuclear technology and applies a factory-based philosophy to its fabrication and assembly.
This repeatable, standardised approach generates huge efficiency gains to make it a commoditised product that is affordable, repeatable, deliverable and investable on a global scale, providing cheaper and more flexible electricity to form part of a future balanced, clean energy mix.
When fully operational the Rolls-Royce SMR programme will create 40,000 regional UK jobs by 2050 and generate £54bn in economic benefit, with a forecast to target £250bn in global exports for the UK.
Join us and help to provide clean, affordable energy for all
