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Department: Deliver Manufacturing Design & Engineering
Location: Derby, Manchester, Warrington
Employment type: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: 51000-70000
Closing date: 19/06/2025
Role Related
Role Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Nuclear Pressure Vessels
Location: Flexible Hybrid working - UK based only
Rolls-Royce SMR is at the forefront of developing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and low-carbon nuclear power. The Senior Supply Chain Manufacturing Engineer - Nuclear Pressure Vessels will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful manufacturing of Reactor Pressure Vessels (RPVs) and other critical nuclear components within the supply chain.
Reporting to the Senior Manager – Manufacturing Methods the role will focus on supplier readiness, ensuring manufacturing partners meet Rolls-Royce SMR’s technical and quality requirements before production begins. The engineer will provide technical support throughout the manufacturing process, resolving fabrication challenges and ensuring compliance with nuclear safety and regulatory standards.
Key role criteria:
Knowledge and experience of manufacturing thick section welded fabrications, ideally large nuclear pressure vessels or similar large high-value components. Relevant experience could include:
- Knowledge of ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code, or comparable industrial process plant design/manufacturing codes.
- An understanding of processes critical to the manufacture of thick section welded fabrications, e.g. welding, non-destructive testing, forging, machining and related quality controls.
- Experience working in an environment making products for the nuclear market, or analogous highly regulated industrial markets.
Experience working with suppliers to assess and enhance their technical capability, capacity, and manufacturing readiness.
Experience of providing on-site and remote technical support to suppliers, addressing manufacturing issues and challenges as they arise.
Proven ability to define, plan, monitor and control projects, programmes and work packages, ensuring the work is delivered to cost, quality and schedule.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders and cross-functional teams at all levels as well as with suppliers and customers. A strong questioning attitude with an ability to influence others and stand alone where required.
Pay And Benefits
We anticipate paying a salary of between £51,000-£70,000 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
