Verification & Validation Engineer

Verification & Validation Engineer

Full Time – Bristol, England

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Verification & Validation Engineer to join the Defence team. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that Rolls‑Royce has sufficient technical oversight for our products to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements. You will also be the point of contact within the project and to our customer to support the team regarding Systems Engineering, Validation and Verification activities, driving the right V&V behaviours within the project.

• Develop product verification strategy, structured verification plan and Product Development Plan and Standardisation reports for the MT30 programmes spanning across UK, Australia, Asia and Canada.
• Define test requirements to validate hardware in areas such as shock, sea ways motion and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical resistance.
• Ensure data from Validation and Verification activities is used to drive the engineering programme schedule and to remove technical risk.
• Establish / manage appropriate R‑E‑D‑V structure that joins information across all areas involved (Customer, Business, System, Sub‑System and Component) for the project.
• Manage the creation of substantiation evidence, clearance/acceptance documentation that meets the demand for the project.
• Extract Manufacturing/Installation/Test and Commissioning requirements from the engineering teams.
• Liaise with the shipbuilder to manage interfaces and ensure execution of testing as necessary.

• Degree level in Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• Systems Engineering mindset.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and synthesize complex information.
• Good communication skills, presentation and report writing.

• Experience in relevant domain (Naval, Aerospace or Defence).
• Understanding of PMIE (Project Management in Engineering).
• Evidence of delivery under pressure.
• Experience in managing relationships with external engineering companies.

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