Trusted to deliver excellence

Our engineers are redefining power in the air, on land and at sea

Our dedicated team of world-class engineers design, develop and refine our products in an environment that is curious, challenging, open-minded and able to change with pace. Our manufacturing engineers bring ideas to life, developing state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to ensure we can build the power solutions we design.

Innovation is key to our competitive edge. To ensure our vision becomes a reality, we have an Engineering Fellowship who provide outstanding leadership and technical expertise to our most complex challenges.

Our global network of University Technology Centres works with hundreds of academics in fundamental research, applying this to cutting-edge products to redefine what’s possible. And our network of Advanced Manufacturing Research Centres deliver best-in-class capability across all areas of manufacturing technology to continuously develop advanced solutions.

£1.4bn

Gross R&D expenditure

704

Patents approved for filing

£68.5bn

Order book

18,245

Engineers

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Join a company that’s striving for ever cleaner, safer and more competitive power.

Electrification is an exciting opportunity to shape the way we all live our lives, and it’s a bold new frontier. As one of the world’s leading industrial technology companies, we’re perfectly placed for the journey ahead.

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Develop the skills you value

We need world-class teams to retain our world-class reputation. That’s why training and development are absolutely vital to us.

Our engineering function has an established and robust Engineering Professional Development Framework. This highlights three broad career development routes for progression:

  • Technical Project Managers,
  • Technical Function (People) Managers,
  • Technical Specialist route.

As you move through this structure we can provide you with a flexible range of opportunities, whether you decide to specialise in one of these types of roles or develop your capabilities across a broad range of skills. We encourage all our people to try out different role types early in their career to gain a breadth of experience, and we’ll also pay for up to one professional institute membership.

Rewards and benefits

We want you to be both inspired and rewarded by the work you do for us.

Rolls-Royce offers a comprehensive, competitive benefit program designed provide for the health and financial security of our employees. Components of these plans may vary by location, but generally include health coverage (medical, pharmacy, dental and vision), company-paid life insurance and disability plans, retirement savings plans and purchasing discounts. 

The Company also provides a variety of leave programs that enable you to recharge, relax, pursue interests outside of work or care for yourself or family members in times of illness. We provide eligible employees with six weeks of Parental Leave to bond with your child and two weeks of Family Care Leave in the case where you need to care for a sick family member.

Our locations

We operate in more than 26 states across the US. We’re headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and we also have a significant presence in Indianapolis and Prince George County.

Outside of Virginia, we have a number of state-of-the-art facilities, including our Power Systems facility in Michigan and jet engine test facility at the NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

Exactly what we do and the expertise we have in each location varies, but all of our operations are united by our people’s commitment to deliver excellence. You can see our locations across the US on the map, and you can find current opportunities by location by heading to ‘search and apply’.