Chief of Service Analysis & Life Cycle Engineering
Full time - Hybrid
Derby
The Service Analysis (SA) & Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) department is committed to ensuring operational excellence, product reliability, and cost-effective lifecycle management. Accountability spans across safety, reliability, fleet performance, and cost optimization, ensuring that all products and services meet the highest standards of safety, quality, airworthiness (Part 21 & Part 145), and performance throughout their lifecycle.
What you will be doing
You will lead, develop and engage assigned Engineering personnel to meet current and future business requirements. When needed you will deploy assigned staff to approved business activities/technical programmes. Additionally, you will own and support the definition of the appropriate section of the Engineering strategy, ensuring that world class capability is defined, developed and effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements.
Responsibilities
Provide Business level Capability and Strategy aligning the businesses
Proactively provide capability leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensure robust deployment and maintenance of capability through-out its lifecycle
Leveraging data for decision-making, apply advanced analytical methods, and lead cross-functional collaboration, to ensure the highest standards of safety, reliability, and customer satisfaction
Identify, Lead and integrate Digital and AI solutions to enhance business outcomes
Create and maintain strategic and /or tactical resource plans, in line with the Do/Buy Strategy, to meet the overall delivery commitments
Ensure that sufficient resource is available to meet current and future business’ needs and budgets. Ensure integration with partners and other resource groups on people and resource issues
Own the overall capability strategy and associated roadmap, and ensure resources necessary to deliver the roadmap
Help define, develop and maintain the capabilities taxonomy with the Engineering for Services Group Capability to ensure sufficient Specialist and SMEs capability exists to support the business and strategic workforce plan
Ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that the required skills are sustainable for the future through: multi-skilling, staff rotation, competency framework tools including training and professional networks and standards
Ensure effective knowledge management, in-line with company KiD policy, through the use of knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond
Lead and drive efficiency and quality through implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work
Where appropriate, own the relationship between engineering, external customers, partners, legal and regulatory authorities and the supply chain and ensure it is effectively managed and integrated on behalf of the capability group
Apply Health, Safety and the Environment policy including a commitment to continuous improvement
Apply product Safety process including a commitment to continuous improvement and safety assurance
Ensure compliance to all HS&E safety requirements for delivered engineering capability
Why Rolls-Royce?
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, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.
Who we’re looking for
Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
Qualified to degree level or equivalent
Demonstrate sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the Business Customers and Programmes
Demonstrate effective leadership & engineering skills
Capable of building high performing teams and affecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviours
Understand Company Quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group
Experienced in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements
Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy
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For further information please contact: Ali Connaughton