Technical Lead - Technology

Job Description

Technical Lead

Full -Time

Bristol

Management level C

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. 

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Working as a trusted, autonomous, key leadership team to a large (120+ persons) organisation, responsible for direct leadership to mid-sized delivery team.

Day-to-day providing leadership to multi-disciplinary engineering sub-system staff, defining scope deliverables to ensure a propulsion sub-system solution that is consistent with the project requirements. This will involve taking engineering concepts through to structured physical testing and verification programmes.

Part of this will be to provide assurance of technical attributes in line with ambitious performance targets of a next generation propulsion system (e.g. performance, unit cost, weight, efficiency, emissions, time on wing).

What you will be doing:

• Responsible for providing the leadership of world class engineering talent, providing the conditions for the team to thrive and the insight to add value in the right places.
• Demonstrate leadership of a highly capable engineering team; applying logical, pragmatic, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems and make balanced decisions across technical and business parameters.
• Deliver appropriate root cause, containment, final fix and terminating actions at sub-system level and/or make recommendation to WED / Chief engineer as required.
• Team leadership and personnel development to meet long term strategic needs of the programme; role will have high exposure to senior leadership and customer interactions.

   

Position qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Engineering discipline preferred including Membership to relevant Professional Body (Royal Aero, IMechE, IET etc)
• Broad understanding of cross-discipline engineering concepts (classic mechanical, materials, aeronautical and manufacturing inclusive), supplemented by cost engineering and product definition.
• Openness and intent to develop excellent communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organisation

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.  

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

  

Grade:  Management level C

For further information please contact:  Lizzie Moore - Lizzie.moore@rolls-royce.com

Job Category

Mechanical Systems

Posting Date

27 Feb 2026; 00:02

Posting End Date

05 Mar 2026