Jobs at Rolls-Royce

Develop and lead external communications for Rolls-Royce’s Engineering, Technology & Safety function. Responsibilities include shaping communications strategy and technology narratives, creating media and executive content, translating complex technical topics for external audiences, advising senior leaders, managing reputation and issues, and evaluating communications impact across channels.

Manage strategic defence programmes for OrpheusWorks, coordinating cross-functional teams, budgets, timelines, risks, stakeholders, suppliers, and customer commitments. Ensure delivery meets scope, schedule, budget, lifecycle, governance, and company process requirements. Support business development, resource and funding decisions, and initiatives that improve delivery. The role requires programme governance experience, commercial awareness, knowledge of UK security management principles, strong influencing and communication skills, and inclusive leadership capabilities.

Develop and deliver internal communications for Rolls-Royce’s Engineering, Technology & Safety function. Responsibilities include creating communications strategies and campaigns, translating complex technical subjects into compelling content, supporting organisational transformation, advising senior leaders, measuring communications impact, and coordinating storytelling across business divisions. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, colleague listening, change communications, and potentially managing communications or creative agencies.

Provides lifecycle engineering support for aerospace engine control-system products. Analyzes LRU service data to identify safety, reliability, maturity, and cost drivers; develops performance metrics; presents insights to engineering, project, and supplier-management teams; and leads improvement initiatives. The role also coordinates with suppliers, maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities, customers, and partners, while supporting broader unit- and fleet-level investigations.

Develop and implement digital manufacturing systems, processes, and technologies across the aerospace production lifecycle. The role improves digital capabilities, supports Industry 4.0 transformation, develops manufacturing roadmaps and architectures with IT, and collaborates with multidisciplinary internal and external teams. It requires experience in regulated manufacturing, knowledge of digital systems, automation, IIoT, and data analytics, plus strong problem-solving and innovation skills.

Plans and executes customer demand delivery by maintaining accurate ERP data, managing supply elements, assessing load and capacity constraints, optimizing logistics, and conducting reviews to identify bottlenecks and delivery risks. The role requires strong planning, prioritization, communication, customer management, and cross-functional relationship-building skills in a complex manufacturing operations environment.

Supports IT projects across the GCAP programme by coordinating lifecycle progression, governance, reporting, financial tracking, portfolio data, approval submissions, and stakeholder activities. Maintains dashboards and project information, monitors delivery performance, expenditure, benefits, risks, and milestones, and prepares reports for programme leadership and investment committees.

Provide employee relations guidance and support for the Bristol site, partnering with managers, HR teams, trade unions, employee representatives, and legal advisors. Advise on workplace practices, collective engagement, statutory consultations, employment-law compliance, organizational change, and productivity improvements. Help develop and deliver the site ER plan while supporting an inclusive, standardized, and commercially effective workplace.

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 logistics operations for Defence and MRO activities, managing shipping and compliance teams, third-party logistics providers, regulatory requirements, budgets, and operational performance. The role drives continuous improvement, export control compliance, supplier performance, cost reduction, and digital process enhancements while collaborating with Finance, Procurement, Quality, Commercial, and Programme teams. It requires four days per week onsite in Bristol and approximately 10–15% travel.

Leads the Digital and IT agenda for civil aerospace manufacturing operations. The role aligns manufacturing strategy with a technology roadmap, oversees transformation portfolios, governs delivery and value realization, and manages operational technology, enterprise integration, service continuity, cyber resilience, investment, risk, and stakeholder relationships. It also develops teams and drives organizational change across a complex, multi-site manufacturing environment.

Manage UltraFan demonstrator research and technology programmes from planning through delivery. Responsibilities include stakeholder coordination, resource and risk management, funding and PMO alignment, supply chain and procurement strategy, tooling and assembly/test integration, and resolving operational constraints across Rolls-Royce, Airbus, government programmes, and global suppliers.

Provides technical support for MRO repair introduction and develops, validates, maintains, and improves manufacturing processes. Ensures compliance with safety, product integrity, quality, export control, and intellectual property requirements. Supports new machine introduction, continuous improvement, capability analysis, and best-practice implementation. The role requires manufacturing engineering qualifications and benefits from machining, lean or Six Sigma, NX CAD, machine tool, and adaptive machining experience.

Manage customs and trade compliance for the Submarines business, including import/export documentation, customs declarations, duty relief schemes, AEO accreditation, shipment tracking, audits, and compliance governance. The role coordinates with brokers, carriers, HMRC, suppliers, and internal teams; provides customs guidance; resolves clearance issues; maintains accurate records; and improves logistics processes while managing compliance risks.

Develop and industrialize composite preforming processes for dry 3D woven fibre components, including trimming and assembly before moulding. Create equipment specifications, technical instructions, PFMEAs, tooling, equipment, and HSE documentation. Improve process capability using Ppk and Cpk, drive zero-defect manufacturing, and manage technical work packages across design, operations, quality, suppliers, and composite technology partners.

Develop and deliver assembly processes for composite aerospace components, including fan blades and structures. Create technical packages covering equipment specifications, work instructions, PFMEAs, tooling, equipment, and HSE documentation. Improve processes using statistical process control, drive zero-defect manufacturing, manage technology plans, and collaborate with design, technical, operations, quality, suppliers, and the National Composites Centre.

Manage client-side delivery of major submarine infrastructure projects, overseeing scope, quality, cost, schedule, risk, governance, assurance, contracts, and stakeholder relationships. Administer NEC4 responsibilities, review contractor programmes, manage change and commercial obligations, support CDM compliance, and coordinate multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and delivery partners. The role also requires leadership of work packages, senior reporting, safety advocacy, and deputising for the Head of Project when required.

Owns global SAP Finance governance, master data, financial close processes, controls, reporting, system changes, data migration, operational improvements, and stakeholder support. Serves as the SAP FI/CO authority across shared service centers, leads finance transformation initiatives, resolves complex system issues, and develops finance and SAP specialists.

Manage and improve mass properties processes, data, tracking, baselines, and change accounts for mature and developing engines. Develop and support tools for mass property management, apply configuration and design data principles, and collaborate with design, configuration, NPI, engineering, program, and external stakeholders. The role focuses on data integrity, digital improvement, cross-functional technical support, and effective deployment of engineering methods in a 3D PLM environment.

Provides technical leadership for software design, development, architecture, governance, testing, deployment, and production support. Establishes coding and architecture standards, reviews code quality, guides agile delivery, translates user requirements into technical specifications, oversees testing, and resolves complex technical issues. Requires strong software development expertise, technical leadership, architecture knowledge, and proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks.