Lead Engineer - Materials Database and Standards

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JR100700

At Rolls‑Royce SMR, our mission is simple but ambitious: to deliver clean, affordable energy for all. Our Small Modular Reactor (SMR) offers a uniquely British solution to a global energy challenge — supporting energy security, net‑zero ambitions, and sustainable growth worldwide.

We are pioneering what we believe will be the UK’s premier green export technology, and we are positioned to become a world leader in SMRs. Joining us now means helping shape the future of low‑carbon power and contributing to one of the most exciting engineering programmes of our time.
** The Team
** You’ll join our Materials & Chemistry team within Nuclear Engineering & E3S Analysis — a highly collaborative, growing group of specialists focused on ensuring the safe, reliable and optimised performance of the RR SMR design.

This team develops, governs, and manages all materials‑related data essential to the reactor’s design, analysis, manufacturing, and long‑term operation. Their work impacts everything from safety case evidence to digital engineering processes, supporting the technical integrity of the entire SMR programme.
** Role Summary
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* Job Title:

Lead Materials Engineer – Materials Data & Standards
** As a Lead Materials Engineer, you will play a key role in building the future of our engineering capability — creating, governing, and optimising the materials data foundation that supports the RR SMR business. This role enables rapid, confident, evidence‑based engineering by ensuring our materials datasets are robust, accessible, and fully integrated with the wider digital ecosystem across RR SMR.Your

contribution will directly influence how our engineers design, analyse, qualify, and operate components throughout the lifecycle of the SMR. You’ll act as the primary technical authority on materials data structure, provenance, traceability, and its accuracy across the programme.
** Key Responsibilities
** In this role, you will be doing the following:
* Leading the development and long‑term governance of the RR SMR materials database, ensuring large and complex datasets are structured, searchable, and aligned with user needs.
* Defining and maintaining materials data quality levels, supporting engineers to understand data provenance, confidence levels, and appropriate use cases.
* Sourcing, verifying, and validating materials data, ensuring full traceability back to original test records, specifications, standards, and qualification evidence.
* Ensuring seamless integration between the materials database and wider engineering systems, including analysis tools, PLM/ERP environments, configuration management, digital twins, and IT infrastructure.
* Acting as the primary interface with software providers, defining requirements and ensuring tooling meets long‑term programme needs.
* Collaborating across other teams within the business, gathering user requirements and supporting consistent, high‑quality data usage.
* Coaching and guiding colleagues in sourcing, interpreting and applying materials data effectively.
** The Impact You’ll Have
** In this role, you will shape how RR SMR engineers interact with materials data for years to come. By developing a robust, scalable and high‑integrity materials data environment, you will help accelerate design decisions, improve safety and quality outcomes, and support future product development.

Your work will directly enable:
* high‑confidence engineering choices,
* faster design iteration,
* robust safety case generation,
* streamlined digital engineering workflows, and
* long‑term data availability for continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to build a capability at the heart of our engineering strategy — one that will influence the SMR programme throughout design, manufacturing, and operation.
** Essential Qualifications & Experience
*** Strong understanding of materials systems, behaviours, and intended uses.
* Degree‑level qualification (or equivalent experience) in a…