Lifecycle Engineer

• Act as the Customer Engineering interface, collaborating with Operators, Partners, Airframers, Regulatory Authorities, and Subject Matter Experts to identify and develop through-life service solutions while ensuring compliance with regulatory, technical, and business requirements.
• Investigate and analyze service events, including safety and reliability aspects, across all engine equipment. Coordinate with relevant experts to identify root causes and implement corrective actions that reduce operational burden while meeting customer and business needs.
• Manage issues affecting product maturity, lifecycle cost, reliability, and maintainability, ensuring they are addressed through design improvements or other means.
• Support reliability management by monitoring performance against targets and analyzing disruption metrics based on historical data. Predict future safety and reliability performance using failure-rate analysis and statistical techniques, including Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution, and fly-forward analysis.
• Extract actionable insights from available data to quantify and improve fleet experience, system performance, and asset health management.
• Creation and approval of Instruction of Continued Airworthiness to support maintenance and overhaul for Rolls-Royce Business Aviation engines.
• Validation of methodologies for effective and sustainable maintenance activities (on-wing/off-wing).
• Creation and approval of inspection criteria at component and system level.
• Act as “Compliance Verification Engineer” to support changes to the type design.
• Incorporation of physical and non-physical product changes into Rolls-Royce Instruction for Continued Airworthiness.
• Identification of potential improvements to increase efficiency in the MRO area and the overall product Life-Cycle-Cost.
• Working closely with internal and external customers like the Chief Engineers, MRO shops and Authorities.
• Support Investigation of operational issues to develop containment, establish root cause and recommend corrective actions.

• Completed engineering degree in a technical field (aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering etc.) Master’s degree or PhD.
• Experience as a Compliance Verification Engineer in the CS-E area.
• Many years of experience in engine assembly, repair and overhaul.
• Experience in dealing with authorities and regulations (EASA Part-21, Part-145, CS-E regulations, etc.).
• Confident use of MS Office, SAP and Team Center.
• Experience with ASD S1000D and S2000M desirable.
• Knowledge of editorial systems (XML, SGML etc.).
• Very good written and spoken English skills. Knowledge of German is an asset.
• Communication skills and ability to work independently.
• Willingness to travel worldwide occasionally.

Why 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.