Senior Engineer - Engineering Capability & Governance and Assurance

## Senior Engineer - Engineering Capability & Governance and Assurance Apply locations:
Derby, UK:
Manchester, UK:
Warrington, UKtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR101245
** Role:
Engineering Capability – Governance and Assurance Senior Engineer
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* Location:

Hybrid working with one of the following closest locations as primary:
Derby, Warrington or Manchester
** Our mission is to deliver clean, affordable energy for all. Rolls-Royce SMR is developing a British solution to one of the world's most pressing challenges: providing reliable, low-carbon energy ough the deployment of innovative Small Modular Reactor technology, we are combining the heritage of Rolls-Royce engineering excellence with cutting-edge nuclear innovation to help accelerate the global transition to net zero.

As one of the UK's most exciting clean energy programmes, we're creating a business that will shape the future of energy generation while creating skilled jobs, advancing technology, and supporting long-term energy security.
** The Team
** The Engineering Capability team is responsible for ensuring our engineering function has the processes, governance, tools, standards, and assurance framework needed to deliver excellence. Working across the organisation, the Governance and Assurance team helps drive consistency, compliance, continuous improvement, and operational effectiveness, ensuring our engineering activities remain robust, efficient, and fit for a highly regulated environment.
** The Opportunity
** In this context, we're looking for an
** Engineering Capability – Governance and Assurance Senior Engineer
** to join our growing Engineering Capability function, reporting to the
** Capability Lead – Governance and Assurance**.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how engineering is delivered across Rolls-Royce SMR. Working with leaders and stakeholders from across engineering, quality, assurance, and design disciplines, you'll help strengthen governance frameworks, support assurance activities, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure our engineering processes continue to evolve in line with business needs and regulatory expectations.

This is a highly visible role that combines governance, assurance, stakeholder engagement, investigation, continuous improvement, and problem-solving, giving you the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the way our business operates.
** We'll need you to:
*** 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.
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* Why this role?

** This is far more than a governance role. You'll be helping to define and improve the systems, processes, and ways of working that underpin one of the UK's most ambitious engineering programmes.

We're looking for someone who enjoys understanding how organisations work, challenges the status quo constructively, and is motivated by improving quality, safety, efficiency, and performance. You'll bring a naturally collaborative approach, strong analytical capability, excellent communication skills, and the confidence…