Quality Manager

Quality Manager
Derby | Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Manager to join the Turbine Systems Manufacturing Business Unit within the Precision Casting Facility (PCF).

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.

The PCF is a critical precision foundry manufacturing turbine blade castings for civil aerospace, business aviation and defence gas turbine engines, supplying both internal and external customers.

The Role

As Quality Manager, you will lead the deployment of the Quality strategy across your aligned area, ensuring governance, capability and systems are effective in delivering business, regulatory and customer requirements. You will play a key role in driving a proactive quality culture, improving performance and enabling right-first-time delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deploy the Quality strategy to drive performance, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement
• Govern Quality performance through KPIs, ensuring effective monitoring, reporting and targeted improvement actions
• Develop and embed a strong Quality culture, enhancing capability, knowledge and compliance across the business
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, customer and internal requirements, acting as a key interface with regulatory bodies and customers where required
• Define and deliver a risk-based assurance strategy, including audit planning and execution to validate controls and drive improvements
• Drive improvements to the Operating System and Quality Management System (e.g. SABRe/GS3001), reducing risk, waste and cost
• Lead robust problem resolution and containment activities, ensuring timely and effective corrective and preventative actions
• Champion defect prevention and right-first-time principles, addressing technical, human and organisational factors
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across operations, engineering and supply chain to embed quality at source
• Provide leadership and coaching to teams, driving accountability, engagement and high performance

Who were looking for:

A proactive and strategic Quality leader who can balance governance with continuous improvement, influence across complex stakeholder groups, and drive a culture of excellence in a high-performance engineering environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a Quality Management role within engineering or manufacturing environments
• Experience within aerospace, defence or other highly regulated industries
• Strong background working within operations, engineering or supply chain environments
• In-depth knowledge of Quality Management Systems and regulatory standards (e.g. AS9100, ISO9001)
• Demonstrated experience leading quality improvement initiatives and delivering measurable performance improvements
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels internally and externally
• Experience managing audits, compliance and regulatory interfaces

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Knowledge and application of structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g. 8D, Root Cause Analysis)
• Experience with continuous improvement frameworks such as Six Sigma or Lean
• Understanding of Human Factors and their impact on quality and operational performance
• Experience working with supplier quality and external supply chains
• Ability to analyse data and trends to drive insight-led decision making
• Leadership experience with a track record of developing high-performing teams

Regional Benefits

Our People are our power, so when join Rolls-Royce you are offered more than a salary. You are given a choice of flexible benefits from life insurance to gym discounts and tax free cycling.

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls-Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free!
• Digital GP provides a convenient way for you to access GP consultations
• Employee Assistance (EAP) and Live Well programmes

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.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level C   

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade. 

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.   

Closing Date 18th August 2026

Hiring Manager: Simon Hill

Recruiter: Ashley Ellis-Beeston