Technical Lead - Liner

Technical Lead

Full -Time

Bristol

Management level C

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a  Sub-System Technical Lead (SSTL) to join the Rolls-Royce team in Bristol.

The Technical lead will be working as a trusted, autonomous, key leadership team to a large (120+ persons) organisation, responsible for direct leadership to smaller delivery team.

Day-to-day providing leadership to multi-disciplinary engineering sub-system staff, defining scope deliverables to ensure a propulsion sub-system and component 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).

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

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.

Who we’re looking for:

This role is part of a high profile, fast paced and ambitious engineering challenge. What we are striving to achieve requires innovative thinking, creative problem solving, clarity of purpose and a willingness to demonstrate leadership at the highest level. Our engineering leadership is empathetic, team oriented, focused and equipped with a range of engineering disciplines; we anticipate you adding another pillar to an already formidable capability

• 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
• Openness to developing or demonstration of existing experience in adaptive personnel management and leadership qualities to get the best out of a variety of skills and people.

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 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.

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

Grade:  Management level C

For further information please contact:  Lizzie Moore - [email protected]