Aerodynamics Methods Engineer

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

1/31/2025

Job Description

Aerodynamics Methods Engineer

Full time

Bristol

What You Will Be Doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Aerodynamics Methods Engineer to join the Fluid Mechanics team within the Engineering Technology & Safety function, based in Bristol.

As an Aerodynamics Methods Engineer, you will ensure a strong link between the aerodynamic design capability and the numerical toolset, with profound aerodynamic knowledge, the ability to develop physical and science modelling methods, and the qualification to make use of digitalization tools. Deep technical involvement in tasks and investigations is expected, as well as good stakeholder interaction and collaborative teamwork.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What We Offer

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Use your numerical methods and programming skills to maintain and extend aerodynamic design tools, CFD solvers (incl. pre/post tools), and digitalization methods.
• Generate, analyse, and interpret aerothermal results in support of the design of Rolls-Royce products.
• Contribute to our Aerothermal methods capability acquisition strategies.
• Define and support R&T projects for technology developments with universities and sub-contractors.
• Possess good stakeholder management skills and an openness to work in global teams.
  
  

Who We Are Looking For:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Need:

• Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace or related Physics or Mathematics.
• Profound knowledge of fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and thermodynamics.
• Strong experience in aerothermal methods development and application as well as the utilization of digitalization tools, in particular very good C++ and Python programming skills.
• Ability to work collaborative with local and global teams.
  
  

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: Monday 10th February 2025.

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Posting Date

29 Jan 2025; 00:01

Posting End Date

10 Feb 2025