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Department: Engineering - Verification & Validation
Location: Derby, Manchester, Warrington
Employment type: Full-time
Salary: £48,000 - £62,500
Closing date: 27/08/2025
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Role Title: Senior Engineer - Test Delivery (Modularisation Development Programme)
Location: Hybrid, Warrington, Manchester or Derby
Rolls-Royce SMR is at the forefront of nuclear innovation, delivering safe, sustainable, and scalable energy solutions. Our Development Engineering Function is structured into four key capability areas:
Research & Technology,
Verification & Validation,
Test, and
Commissioning. We are now seeking a dynamic and driven
Senior Test Engineer – Delivery to join our Modularisation Development Programme (MDP).
Reporting to the MDP Test (Design) Manager, you will lead integrated project teams in defining and delivering demonstrator and test strategies that support the development of our modular nuclear technology. This role demands strong leadership, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills, as you will work closely with internal teams, suppliers, and external partners.
Your work will initially focus on supporting plant design optimisation, evolving into the provision of critical test data to validate and verify the design and underpin the safety case. Success in this role requires a high level of initiative, influence, and the ability to drive delivery of complex, high-value test outcomes.
The MDP is a comprehensive programme that develops and validates design, establishes production capabilities, integrates digital technologies, and defines SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel) requirements across the modularisation lifecycle. It includes ten key demonstrators across four major workstreams:
Modular Kit of Parts (MKoP),
Civil Kit of Parts,
Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and
Facilities.
Key selection criteria are:
Test Programmes
Experience in the definition, planning and execution of test programmes to ensure they generate the required design development, verification or validation evidence, including as applicable through scaled tests or sub-element testing.
Delivery
Experience in leading challenging and complex engineering projects in a regulated industry, nuclear experience is preferred but not essential.
Communication and Influence
Good interpersonal & communication skills, able to bring people together and solve problems as a multi-disciplinary team (e.g. Design & Development)
Systems Engineering
Demonstrate a clear analytical approach and a methodical work process. Have a systems-thinking mindset, including experience of collaborating within multi-discipline teams to define and manage system requirements.
Technical Coaching & Reviewing
Alongside managing the delivery and quality of their own work, Senior Engineers will have a responsibility to drive up the quality of the wider team’s outputs, through coaching and reviewing.
Pay And Benefits
We anticipate paying a salary of between £48,000 - £62,500 DOE plus:-
- Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5%
- Benefits Allowance – £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package
- Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
- Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days.
- Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care
- Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
- £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases
Company Related
We are Rolls-Royce SMR
Rolls-Royce SMR is a rare employer because it blends the world-class brand of Rolls Royce with an exciting start-up that has a hugely challenging mission. We’re doing work that contributes to the survival of the planet. Because of our mission, there’s a pace and energy that is palpable, and our leaders draw you in with their passion, energy, and determination.
We’re one of a handful of employers who can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation – our people are here because of what makes them great, and our job is to help them make the best contribution of their careers doing work they love.
The start-up mentality coupled with our strengths-approach to people means there are opportunities to grow in ways and jobs you probably would be barred from doing in more traditional companies.
Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years, helping to support the roll out of renewable generation and overcome intermittency issues
Our Culture
At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture. Find out more about our inclusion pledge.
Rolls-Royce SMR is a place where everyone can grow, so whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and help shape our culture.
Our Application Process
Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:
Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check
