Senior Engineer – Engineering Capability, Governance and Assurance

Rolls-Royce SMR

Senior Engineer focused on enhancing governance and assurance processes in engineering for Rolls-Royce SMR. Collaborating across disciplines to foster continuous improvement in a regulated environment.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeDerby • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £50,650 - £66,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Supporting and delivering governance reviews and assurance activities across engineering, ensuring processes are being applied consistently and effectively.
Developing, reviewing, maintaining, and continuously improving engineering processes, templates, guidance, and associated governance documentation.
Collaborating with assurance, quality, design, and engineering stakeholders to identify gaps, non-conformances, process inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Investigating process-related issues, undertaking root cause analysis, gathering evidence, and producing high-quality reports supported by clear recommendations.
Tracking, prioritising, and supporting the implementation of improvement actions, ensuring recommendations are translated into meaningful outcomes.
Facilitating stakeholder engagement activities, gathering feedback, promoting best practice, and supporting organisational learning.
Supporting change implementation activities to ensure new processes and ways of working are embedded successfully across the business.
Using data evidence, and insight to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement across engineering capability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

An engineering degree or equivalent professional experience within engineering, governance, assurance, quality, operational excellence, or a related discipline.
Working towards Chartered Engineer status or another relevant professional accreditation would be advantageous.
Experience contributing to governance, assurance, compliance, quality, continuous improvement, operational excellence, or process improvement activities.
Experience working within engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, aerospace, defence, infrastructure, energy, or another highly regulated environment would be beneficial.
Experience supporting investigations, audits, assessments, process reviews, or assurance activities and translating findings into practical recommendations.
Experience working with cross-functional teams to implement improvements and drive organisational change.
Knowledge of governance frameworks, process management principles, assurance methodologies, quality management systems, or business process improvement techniques.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build credibility and productive working relationships across diverse teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings, recommendations, and technical information clearly.
Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to assess complex information and identify root causes.
A structured and organised approach, maintaining high attention to detail while managing competing priorities.
A continuous improvement mindset coupled with curiosity, resilience, and a desire to challenge existing ways of working constructively.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Engineering DegreeGovernanceAssuranceQuality ManagementProcess ImprovementOperational ExcellenceData AnalysisContinuous ImprovementTechnical ReportingCompliance

Soft Skills

Analytical ThinkingCommunicationOrganizational SkillsAttention to DetailCollaboration

Certifications

Chartered Engineer Status