Jobs at Rolls-Royce

Leads strategic MRO and capability portfolio shaping, prioritization, governance, investment decisions, risk management, and resource allocation for Aftermarket Operations. Builds and matures the PMO, establishes programme standards, strengthens delivery discipline, and leads enabling projects and process improvements. Influences senior stakeholders, manages portfolio interdependencies, and develops globally distributed teams to deliver complex aerospace aftermarket programmes.

Conducts lifecycle engineering investigations for submarine platforms, optimizing maintenance requirements and improving availability, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost. Responsibilities include root-cause analysis, statistical reliability forecasting, technical data modeling, health-monitoring requirements, regulatory compliance, safety assurance, stakeholder communications, and continuous improvement. The role supports the UK Submarines Enterprise and collaborates with the MoD, suppliers, customers, regulators, and internal engineering teams.

Leads operations for a Defence manufacturing value stream, overseeing safety, quality, cost, delivery, capacity planning, budgeting, workforce performance, employee development, and continuous improvement. The role manages approximately 20 employees, drives SQCDP performance, ensures health and safety compliance, and delivers customer and business targets in a trade-union environment.

Leads Civil Aerospace enterprise resilience, with an initial focus on cyber incident readiness. Develops resilience frameworks, recovery plans, playbooks, governance, and capability roadmaps; identifies and closes operational and cyber resilience gaps; leads cross-functional programmes, workshops, simulations, and testing; and influences senior stakeholders to embed prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery practices.

Lead development and execution of global IT Knowledge Management strategy (ITIL4/KCS). Own knowledge lifecycle, ServiceNow knowledge capabilities, AI-enabled tooling, and shift-left/self-service initiatives. Define governance, KPIs, SLAs, and drive adoption, stakeholder engagement, supplier compliance, and capability-building to improve first-time fix, self-service deflection, and operational efficiency.

Leads project controls strategy, processes, tools, training, capability development, and performance improvement for the Submarines business. Acts as the project controls authority, provides expert guidance, coaches project teams, manages specialists, and supports project and programme delivery. Requires expertise in earned value management, project management processes, team leadership, and professional development, along with UK nationality and Security Check clearance.

Supports governance, reporting, coordination, and delivery assurance across a Cyber Security portfolio. Responsibilities include maintaining portfolio plans, dashboards, and governance packs; coordinating forums; tracking project performance, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions; analyzing portfolio data; and producing leadership updates. The role also builds relationships across technical and business teams while improving reporting consistency and governance processes.

Manage quality compliance and improvement across Rolls-Royce defence manufacturing and component repair activities. Partner with production leadership to meet regulatory and internal management-system requirements, lead 8D investigations, oversee DASOR, MEDA, and MARS processes, and embed quality tools throughout facility operations. Maintain visual governance of plant quality performance and corrective actions while coaching teams and promoting continuous improvement.

Coordinate and improve process safety arrangements for high-consequence hazards across operations, projects, and engineering. The role supports HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, COMAH, safety cases, bow-tie analysis, safety instrumented systems, management of change, incident investigations, audits, emergency preparedness, performance reporting, training, and regulatory compliance. It also provides specialist advice and assurance while promoting strong health, safety, environment, and process safety governance.

Leads the Model Based Software Engineering capability for high-integrity aerospace systems. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, maintaining engineering processes and regulatory compliance, planning resources and budgets, recruiting and developing personnel, managing performance, coordinating engineering and supply-chain interfaces, and driving continuous improvement, knowledge management, and best practices across global Rolls-Royce software engineering teams.

Perform X-ray radiography and inspect cast components in Rolls-Royce’s precision casting facility. Work within a three-shift team to meet customer requirements, maintain radiation and health-and-safety standards, identify and resolve process issues, and support continuous improvement. The role requires attention to detail, reliability, teamwork, communication, basic computer literacy, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Designs, analyzes, validates, and implements electrical components and systems for submarine reactor control, instrumentation, power systems, and plant sensors. Responsibilities include translating high-level requirements into validated designs, assessing functional behavior through modelling and simulation, supporting capacity planning and strategic departmental goals, and developing procedures, tools, guidelines, and training materials.

Supports the Transformation Director and enterprise transformation team in delivering projects from idea creation through deployment. Manages workstream performance, plans, risks, dependencies, value tracking, governance reporting, stakeholder communications, change management, and Agile delivery. Provides analysis and insights to identify issues, challenge performance, and develop corrective actions across multiple business functions and contexts.

Support NSRP maintenance planning and optimisation during Base Maintenance Periods at HMNB Clyde. Assist contract development, implement inspections/testing regimes, identify availability optimisation opportunities, drive out waste, and collaborate with Joint Project Teams and external partners.

Leads the end-to-end planning function for Assembly, Test and Control manufacturing operations. Owns SIOP and long-term planning, demand management, capacity planning, inventory inputs, governance, planning systems, process improvement, and supply risk management. Provides functional leadership, coaching, and succession planning while coordinating across manufacturing, procurement, portfolio planning, customers, and other stakeholders. Ensures supply chains are capable of meeting customer and business requirements while optimizing working capital, operational costs, compliance, and delivery performance.

Develop and validate aircraft engine noise performance through acoustic prediction, component design advice, rig and engine testing, certification support, and research into low-noise technologies. The role involves analyzing acoustic data, managing experimental programs, collaborating with engineering teams, suppliers, customers, partners, and academia, and contributing to future aerospace noise capability strategies.

Design, develop, verify and optimise bespoke low-voltage electrical power distribution systems and equipment for naval and marine customers. Liaise with multidisciplinary teams, author technical documentation, support manufacture and testing, present design information in reviews, and occasionally travel to customer and supplier sites.

Leads lifecycle engineering for naval gas turbine products, providing technical support, investigating operational issues, managing safety and reliability, developing corrective actions, and maintaining design intent. Responsibilities include reliability modeling, statistical risk analysis, health monitoring requirements, technical publications, regulatory compliance, cost reduction, lifecycle data analysis, and communication with customers, regulators, suppliers, and internal teams.

Leads the Civil Large Safety and Reliability engineering team, overseeing product safety assessments, risk analysis, Red Top and SAR contributions, workflow, budget, and stakeholder delivery. Develops technical and people capability, shapes safety strategies for current and future aerospace products, and drives continuous improvement through digital technologies, AI, and innovative engineering practices.

Manage global aerospace research and technology programmes across composite fan, combustion, turbine, and whole-engine systems. Responsibilities include end-to-end programme planning, budgets, risks, governance, stakeholder management, technical and financial reporting, technology maturation to TRL6, and coordination with internal teams, government agencies, academic partners, suppliers, and manufacturing centres. The role leads multidisciplinary work packages and supports government-funded projects and Rolls-Royce’s technology funding strategy.