Lifecycle Engineer - Time On Wing and Shop Visit Cost

Job Description

Lifecycle Engineer - Time On Wing and Shop Visit Cost

Full Time

Derby

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

What you will be doing:

Are you passionate about innovation, data-driven insights, and making a real impact? This is your chance to be at the heart of Rolls-Royce’s mission to power, protect, and connect the world!

 

Do you want to be part of the team that shapes the finance of the company and unlocks value for the business?

 

Life Cycle Engineering is the department to provide new product safety and reliability analyses, influence new product design with service experience and provide in-service technical support to ensure safe, reliable and cost-effective operation within the accountability of the respective Chief Engineer.

 

If you're interested to enhance technical skills (life cycle modelling), develop a stronger cost focus (business acumen), interface with our internal customers and have a direct impact in our company (influence the business with engineering insights to reconcile engineering constraints and business requirements).

Key Responsibilities:

• For in service & NPI products, coordinate with customers, suppliers, regulatory authority, maintenance facilities and internal stakeholders on reliability, maturity and life cycle cost matters
• Develop and deploy statistical models to perform product maturity, reliability and life cycle cost analysis
• Extract actionable insights from available data using statistics, data mining and database techniques in order to quantify/understand fleet experience, system performance and asset reliability
• Perform life cycle cost analyses and trade studies to quantify the impact of changes in design, maintenance practices or operational procedures and actively influence the sales campaign of new engines
• Generate asset reliability, availability and performance improvement proposals based on these insights (e.g. diagnosis and prognosis based on equipment health monitoring data)
• Produce service knowledge and share internally using and improving the dedicated processes and systems
• Having the opportunity to progress through Engineering and non-Engineering business areas

Who We’re Looking For:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical or Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics / Statistics, Physics or related field
• Preferable experience in statistical in-service/life data analysis methods (e.g. System Reliability Analysis, Weibull & other parametric distributions, Monte Carlo Simulations)
• Proven ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems. Proven ability to handle ambiguity
• Experience in computer science, data mining and machine learning techniques will be positively valued

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to SNBG 7-10.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.  

Grade: SNBG 7-10

Closing date: 2nd April 2026

For further information, please contact: Sam Cushley – Sam.Cushley@Rolls-Royce.com

Job Category

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

17 Mar 2026; 00:03

Posting End Date

02 Apr 2026