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Working at Rolls-Royce

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    Join Rolls-Royce as a Systems Engineer in Heybridge for a permanent, full-time role offering a hybrid work arrangement. You will work within the NautilusIQ Solutions team to design Integrated Platform Management Systems and Equipment for marine applications, ensuring products meet all business, customer, and regulatory requirements.

    Requirements

    • Required: Degree in electrical engineering or similar, or equivalent competence and industry experience.
    • Required: At least 3 years of professional experience in electrical engineering, automation systems design, and project management.
    • Required: Experience in naval or marine automation and control systems, project lifecycle delivery, PLC software design, and HMI design.
    • Preferred: Knowledge of naval and marine standards, specifications, and safety standards.
    • Preferred: Good time management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills.

    Skills & Responsibilities

    • PLC and Software Design: Deliver robust automation solutions by utilizing programming languages like C/C++, Structured Text, and PLC application software design.
    • System Safety and Analysis: Ensure reliability and compliance by conducting FMEA, FMECA, Risk Analysis, and implementing System Safety measures.
    • Technical Documentation: Create essential documentation including Functional Design Specifications, Control and Monitoring Descriptions, and Test Specifications.
    • Stakeholder and Requirements Management: Interface between external and internal customers to elicit, translate, and validate high-level automation requirements into validated designs.
    • Potential transition routes: People from Automation Engineer, Electrical Engineer, or Marine Control Systems Engineer roles may bring relevant technical and project management skills, alongside meeting the core electrical engineering degree and automation requirements.

    Job description

    Job Description

    Job Title: Systems Engineer

    Working Pattern: 5 Days a week in the office / Hybrid work possible

    Working location: Heybridge

    Job Description

    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.

    As the Systems Engineer you will work within Rolls-Royce Power Systems (RRPS) in Heybridge. As part of NauitIQ Solutions team, they will be working closely with other engineering disciplines to design Integrated Platform Management Systems and Equipment for marine applications.

    What you will be doing:

    You will be responsible for ensuring that Rolls-Royce has sufficient oversight for our products to meet business, customer, and regulatory requirements; you will:

    • Review and agree high level automation requirements including their testability.
    • Analyse and translate high level requirements into a validated design for automation components.
    • Capture applicable design constraints and quality attributes that apply to the component.
    • Interface between external and internal customers, to elicit and validate all stakeholder requirements including business, technical customers, and partners.
    • Design and implement automation designs to meet the high-level requirements and design constraints/standards.
    • Allocate automation requirements to test vehicles defined in the verification plan.
    • Create an appropriate Enterprise Architecture solution which serves both business and technical needs.
    • Develops, implements, documents, and maintains policies, procedures, associated guidelines, tools, and training as required.
    • Creation of documents e.g. Functional Design Specification (FDS), Control and Monitoring Description (CMD), Test Specifications and Operator/Maintenance Manuals.
    • Experience in implementing System Safety e.g. FMEA, FMECA, Risk Analysis, etc.
    • Liaises with other disciplines to understand functional performance capabilities of components of the system to facilitate effective component design.
    • Set the Systems Engineering and Verification approach for an Engineering Programme through the Configuration Management Plan.
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    Rolls-Royce

    Systems Engineer

    Heybridge
    On-site, Hybrid
  • Clarification and Definition of serial communication interfaces between the Rolls-Royce Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) and 3rd party systems.
  • Experience in PLC application software design and understand programming languages such as C/C++, Structured Text (ST), etc. and must be open to learn the WINMON language.
  • Experience in Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design
  • Position Qualifications:

    • Be qualified to Degree level in electrical engineering or similar disciplines or be able to demonstrate equivalent competence and industry experience.
    • At least 3 years or more professional experience in electrical engineering, designing automation systems and the management of projects / programs of increasing complexity.
    • Significant domain knowledge and experience of naval or marine automation and control systems.
    • Has experience in all stages of a project lifecycle and has been responsible for the delivery of one or more of those stages.
    • Be able to work dynamically and respond to evolving objectives and emerging opportunities while working in coordination with a multidisciplinary, energetic team of engineers.

    Preferred requirements:

    • Knowledge and experience of delivering systems complying with naval and marine standards, specifications and safety standards.
    • Good time management skills able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
    • Possess of good communication, presentation, and influencing skills.

    Power Systems is the Rolls-Royce business which provides world-class power solutions and complete life-cycle support under our product and solution brand mtu. Through digitalisation and electrification, we strive to develop drive and power generation solutions that provide answers to the challenges posed by the rapidly growing societal demands for energy and mobility.

    We deliver and service comprehensive, powerful and reliable systems, based on both gas and diesel engines, as well as electrified hybrid systems. These technologically advanced solutions serve our customers in the marine and infrastructure sectors worldwide.

    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.

    Type of Contract

    Permanent

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