Senior Systems Engineer - Power Station Integration
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Department: Engineering - Power Station Integration
Location: Derby, Manchester, Warrington
Employment type: Full-time
Salary: £48,000 - £62,500
Closing date: 14/08/2025
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Role Title: Senior Systems Engineer - Power Station Integration
Location: Hybrid working with one of the following locations as your primary site: Derby, Warrington or Manchester.
We are Rolls-Royce SMR and we’re doing something that’s never been done before. We’re revolutionising an industry. That’s a once-in-a-career opportunity for those excited by such a challenge. This is more than just a job; this is a legacy.
We are now recruiting for the exciting role of Senior Systems Engineer - Power Station Integration, to be involved in industry leading, cutting-edge design project for a new type of power station.
The Senior Systems Engineer will develop & deliver power station design solutions that meet the required attributes of the RR SMR power station by integrating functional design and undertaking design optioneering as a key member of the Power Station Integration team.
The Power Station Integration team deliver the overarching functional plant design and manage the associated measures of performance. This role may undertake aspects of both these areas using systems engineering methods to integrate solutions across the power station, as well as flowing requirements to lower tier systems ensuring the whole power station requirements and identifying and driving improvements and risk mitigations where the attributes are affected
Key Results & What can be Achieved in the Role
- Own and run independently the design of Power Station Capabilities/Features and manage the performance and attributes of the power station in relation to these. (E.g. net power output, availability, product cost etc.).
- Use experience and systems engineering techniques to deliver Power Station design solutions against product requirements.
- Ensure requirements flow to the lower tier systems enables the overarching power station attributes and objectives to be met.
- Elicit capability requirements.
- Integrate across multi-level disciplined design teams to develop the design capability.
- Deliver the plant level solutions to meet key attributes.
- Drive the delivery of performance opportunities and risk mitigations.
- Develop the business understanding and impact on performance from alternative power station variants.
Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch, we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.
Key Selection Criteria
- Highly experienced in product and system level design & integration
- Experience in owning and solving complex product/system level design problems.
- Experience in delivering design solutions across multiple systems & design areas to meet design requirements.
- Experience in defining system measures of performance to meet product level attributes.
- Skilled in Design Optioneering
- Experienced in design optioneering and carrying out robust multi-attribute decision making to deliver design solutions.
- Experience in design space mapping techniques (internal and external variation) is desirable.
- Experience in Systems Engineering
- Experience in techniques such as system architecting, design decision making and engineering trade studies.
- Demonstration of a systems engineering mindset and ability to drive this throughout the business.
- Experience in requirements elicitation & management.
- Experience with requirements management & Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and/or functional flow modelling is desirable.
- Domain Experience
- Engineering background with domain expertise in a highly regulated environment.
- Experience in either nuclear or power generation is desirable.
- Knowledge of power generation cycle would also be desirable.
- Demonstratable interpersonal skills
- Demonstrable skills in integrating across multi-disciplined teams.
- Actively seek stakeholder inputs and able to elicit requirements and needs.
- Ability to effectively communicate and influence across all levels of the organisation in both written and verbal form.
- Ability to independently work with multi-disciplined teams to deliver integrated solutions.
Will have a engineering degree or equivalent experience.
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
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
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