Professor Jones was Rolls-Royce’s global engineering specialist providing welding and brazing engineering solutions. His work in developing Rolls-Royce’s Shaped Metal Deposition process for producing 3DP-AM jet engine parts led him to receiving the Company’s Operational award for innovation, leading to several patents, in addition to the Leslie Lidstone Medal; the Welding Institute’s international award for engineers who have made the most significant contribution to welding in the world. Professor Jones has also provided novel electron beam welding solutions applied to aircraft fuel sensory systems and was the main welding advisor for Rolls-Royce Marine systems in producing the shiplift ™ manipulating equipment that positioned the Venice MOSE flood barrier. He is also a visiting professor of the University of Sheffield/Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Centre, a UK contributor to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section IX, the UK’s representative for Resistance and Solid-State welding as well as brazing and soldering sciences, a working party member of the RCC-M nuclear welding and fabrication committee and Chairman of the Examination Board of The Welding Institute.