Our graduate engineers enjoy amazing exposure to our business through a series of fascinating and thought-provoking rotations. Here are just some of the challenges you could be putting your mind to:
Mechanical/Stress
In this area, you’ll be working closely with Design Engineers, Materials Engineers and Manufacturing Engineers to get even more out of our components and ensure they’re fit for purpose, cost-effective and simple to manufacture. These astute assessments are made using a range of methods, including hand calculation, finite element analysis, component rig testing and engine testing.
Development/Services
Imagine being at the heart of any new product certification or modification clearance programmes, supporting in-service products or obtaining new-product-type approval and certification. That’s what you’ll experience if your rotation takes you to this part of our business.
Control Systems and Data Services
Our products are becoming more digital with embedded control and monitoring systems performing a greater role than ever before. So as a graduate engineer in CDS, you’ll design, develop and verify high integrity electronics, software and mechanical systems to manage and monitor all aspects of engine performance. And as data becomes increasingly important – allowing deep insight into through-life product performance– you’ll develop state-of-the-art analytics and service offerings to ensure we deliver the very best after sales services to our customers.
Materials
Working with the latest technologies, you’ll liaise with University Technology Centres to develop a deep understanding of new materials, learning how best to integrate them into our products. You’ll get involved in controlling raw materials and supporting component manufacturing as well as evaluating service run parts, and supporting fleets around the world.
Component and System Design
This rotation is about getting to know our customers inside out. As a Design Engineer, you’ll work to understand requirements before either creating new solutions or modifying existing ones. The process demands a complete grasp of what the customer needs, so you’ll be integrating knowledge, data and information, principally for performance, structural integrity, manufacturing, and in-service aspects.
Manufacturing Engineering
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will develop, implement and control the state-of-the-art manufacturing assembly and repair processes needed to turn our products and services into reality. For more information see the details of our specific Manufacturing Engineering programme.
Performance
As a Performance Engineer, you’ll play a crucial part in the design, development and support of our products: making design recommendations and decisions based on an in-depth aero/thermodynamic understanding of integrated propulsion and power systems. You can expect to use physics-based simulations – validated using real data from tests – to analyse key performance criteria such as thrust, fuel burn or power output.
Aerothermal/Fluid Dynamics
On rotation here you’ll get to develop the latest computational fluid dynamics modelling techniques to simulate engine or component performance. Experimental roles commission and support tests to get the best possible data for analysis. You’ll be involved in all aspects of the design process – from new concepts with leading research universities through to testing products.
Electrical Systems
It's a fascinating and exciting time to be involved in Electrical Systems. Our propulsion systems for ships are moving towards full electric or hybrid architectures, and we’re investing in electrical technologies for the aircraft engines of the future. We’re increasingly using electrical components in our products and systems to realise customer benefits. So, as an Electrical Engineer, you’ll research, develop, design, test and manufacture advanced electrical systems and components, including rotating machines, power electronics and energy storage systems.