Manufacturing Engineering Awards

In our Manufacturing Engineering Awards, we offer up to four awards of £500 each to final year Science or Engineering Masters students with an interest in pursuing a career in Manufacturing Engineering.

Our Manufacturing Engineers play a key role in developing and continuously improving the world class processes that allow us to manufacture, assemble and maintain our products. Using a wide range of lean and process improvement tools, they help to ensure we deliver our customers’ requirements.

As well as £400 million of investment in new manufacturing and assembly facilities in the UK, we’re working with partners and joint venture companies around the world to develop our manufacturing capabilities further. From the initial factory design to the realisation of production flow, our Manufacturing Engineers are closely involved in these developments to ensure our products remain competitive. And by working with universities, research centres, suppliers and partners, they ensure we develop cost-effective solutions to meet ever increasing technical and environmental challenges.

To enter the Manufacturing Engineering Awards, you’ll need to be a final year science or engineering masters student, and give us your answer to this question about our manufacturing engineering strategy:

Rolls-Royce is currently investing more than £400 million in manufacturing facilities in the UK, with further investment in the US and Germany. We are also continuously developing our in-house manufacturing capabilities.

In no more than 500 words, discuss why the company might choose to adopt this strategy, and the challenges a UK based power solutions manufacturer could face.

You’ll also need to give us a Short paragraph on your career ambitions in this area. If your entry’s shortlisted, you’ll be invited to visit our Derby headquarters for the Awards ceremony.


The closing date for entries is the 27 October 2008

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