Role Title: Senior Engineer - Layout and Installation Assemblies
Locations: Hybrid working with one of the following locations as primary: Derby, Warrington or Manchester
We are Rolls‑Royce SMR and we’re doing something that’s never been done before. We’re revolutionising an industry. That’s a once‑in‑a‑career opportunity for those excited by such a challenge. This is more than just a job; this is a legacy.
The Layout and Installation Assemblies team is responsible for the design and delivery of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) modules and installation assemblies across the Reactor Island. These solutions are fundamental to our modular delivery strategy and play a critical role in ensuring safe, efficient and constructible plant design.
About the Role:
As a Senior Engineer - Layout and Installation Assemblies, you will be responsible for the design and delivery of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) modules and installation assemblies within the Reactor Island Layout design.
You will develop an understanding of the full technical requirements and lifecycle of the modules, creating arrangements and layouts while helping determine manufacturing, installation and commissioning strategies. The role requires a strong understanding of how fluid and waste management systems interface with plant structures, equipment, supporting systems and operational activities across the facility lifecycle.
You will ensure that plant and system arrangements support safe, efficient and practical operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, replacement and eventual decommissioning. Working within a core Layout and Installation Assemblies team, you will have responsibility for the development of a defined cluster of modules within a critical area of the Reactor Island design.
Getting the layout, modularisation and installation design right is absolutely critical to achieving the overall business objective and is a key part of our innovative SMR approach.
We’ll Need You To:
Develop and validate Reactor Island layouts to ensure all requirements are met
Progress a defined cluster of modules through the Design Review process
Proactively engage with stakeholders to capture requirements and assumptions
Understand technical and programme risks associated with Reactor Island installations and make informed engineering decisions
Work alongside component, layout and CAD engineers to develop integrated module clusters
Support the optimisation of manufacturing, installation and lifecycle delivery strategies through digital engineering, constructability and operability principles
Lead assessments of plant operability, maintainability and accessibility throughout the design lifecycle
Ensure layouts support efficient commissioning, testing, flushing, inspection and turnover activities
Apply Design for Safety principles throughout the design process
Ensure fluid and waste management systems are effectively integrated with wider plant systems and structures
Support solutions that maximise plant availability and minimise outages, operational restrictions and system isolations
Work closely with manufacturing, operations, commissioning and maintenance stakeholders to ensure through‑life requirements are fully incorporated within the design
Contribute to technical reviews and project review gates throughout the programme lifecycle
Key Skills Required:
We know there’s no such thing as the ‘perfect’ candidate. If you meet around 75% of the criteria below, we’d love to hear from you:
Proven experience delivering layout and installation design programmes to time, cost and quality targets
Experience developing engineering solutions from concept through to detailed design
Understanding of robust design methodologies, DfX principles and engineering trade‑off studies
Strong systems engineering capability, including:
Requirements management
Stakeholder management
Technical and programme risk management
Through‑life design considerations
Gated design review…