Quality Engineer
Full time
Derby/Hybrid
The Quality of our products and services is of critical importance to Rolls-Royce; it underpins the safety of our products and is fundamental to meeting customer and regulatory requirements.
This is a unique opportunity to work closely with our Civil Aerospace manufacturing, procurement, or service teams to make a difference to the Quality of the iconic products that our customers depend upon every day.
We are looking for talented people from different backgrounds and experience to join the Rolls-Royce Quality team.
You will work within a supportive, collaborative, and learning culture that will enable you to develop skills, innovative ideas and grow your career.
This is your opportunity to be a part of shaping the future of Quality in Civil Aerospace.
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce, we’re dedicated to cutting-edge innovation, delivering power solutions, and creating the critical systems and technologies that shape the future of aviation, energy, and beyond. By joining Rolls-Royce, you’ll have the opportunity to work on world-changing projects, supported by a culture that champions inclusivity, creativity, and your professional growth.
What you will be doing:
Understand customer, regulatory and business requirements and ensure there is an effective means of satisfying those requirements, e.g. through the Rolls-Royce Management System. The team is heavily customer-focused: it daily engages with the Rolls-Royce customer facing team and occasionally with airplane manufacturers.
Protect the customer and the business through the management of problems, either through performing problem resolution or through the coaching of others. Role involves coaching and auditing the 8D problem resolution of suppliers as they respond to non-conformances.
Role includes managing notice of non-conformance and/or escapes. This includes managing the process to engage chief engineers and other technical authorities to sentence and manage the non-conformance. These activities provide a significant opportunity for the team member for technical upskill and understanding of jet engine architecture.
Perform assurance activities to provide confidence to the business that customer, regulatory and business requirements will be achieved. These activities include ensuring non-conforming parts are not delivered to our customers, which includes containment of all non-conforming parts and products within the Rolls-Royce system. These activities provide a significant learning opportunity of global logistics.
Support supplier maturity and improvement to ensure Rolls-Royce requirements are achieved.
You will be offered the opportunity to pursue the Lean Six-Sigma Green and/or Black Belt and 8D Practitioner/Coach accreditations as part of your role.
What you’ll get:
Great salary and benefits
On top of your salary and equivalent of 33 days’ holiday a year, you’ll get generous pension contributions (up to 12%), access to employee support assistance and employee discounts, free parking. Plus, much more.
To be successful in this role, you’ll bring strong commercial acumen and a strategic mindset. You’ll thrive in a dynamic environment and enjoy solving complex problems. Specifically, you’ll need:
A degree (BA level) and/or CIPS qualifications.
Experience in Direct and/or Indirect Procurement within a regulated or complex industry.
A track record of leading negotiations at a senior level and delivering commercial value.
Expertise in category strategy development, supplier management, and in-contract performance.
Understanding of Total Cost of Acquisition / Product Cost Lifecycles and commercial levers.
A passion for driving change and making a measurable difference.
Our future vision is to deepen our world-class engineering and technology capability and lead next generation thinking for our customers. We will play our part in the energy transition for a more sustainable world. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
Closing date for applications: 13th May 2026
As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.