Chief of Service Analysis & Life Cycle Engineering in Chesterfield

The Service Analysis (SA) & Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) department is committed to ensuring operational excellence, product reliability, and cost-effective lifecycle management. Accountability spans across safety, reliability, fleet performance, and cost optimization, ensuring that all products and services meet the highest standards of safety, quality, airworthiness (Part 21 & Part 145), and performance throughout their lifecycle.

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 will 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.

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It is a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum, we are all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

You will lead, develop and engage assigned Engineering personnel to meet current and future business requirements. When needed you will deploy assigned staff to approved business activities/technical programmes. Additionally, you will own and support the definition of the appropriate section of the Engineering strategy, ensuring that world class capability is defined, developed and effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide Business level Capability and Strategy aligning the businesses.
• Proactively provide capability leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensure robust deployment and maintenance of capability throughout its lifecycle.
• Leveraging data for decision-making, apply advanced analytical methods, and lead cross-functional collaboration, to ensure the highest standards of safety, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
• Identify, Lead and integrate Digital and AI solutions to enhance business outcomes.
• Create and maintain strategic and/or tactical resource plans, in line with the Do/Buy Strategy, to meet the overall delivery commitments.
• Ensure that sufficient resource is available to meet current and future business needs and budgets. Ensure integration with partners and other resource groups on people and resource issues.
• Own the overall capability strategy and associated roadmap, and ensure resources necessary to deliver the roadmap.
• Help define, develop and maintain the capabilities taxonomy with the Engineering for Services Group Capability to ensure sufficient Specialist and SMEs capability exists to support the business and strategic workforce plan.
• Ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that the required skills are sustainable for the future through: multi-skilling, staff rotation, competency framework tools including training and professional networks and standards.
• Ensure effective knowledge management, in-line with company KiD policy, through the use of knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond.
• Lead and drive efficiency and quality through implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work.
• Where appropriate, own the relationship between engineering, external customers, partners, legal and regulatory authorities and the supply chain and ensure it is effectively managed and integrated on behalf of the capability group.
• Apply Health, Safety and the Environment policy including a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Apply product Safety process including a commitment to continuous improvement and safety assurance.
• Ensure compliance to all HS&E safety requirements for delivered engineering capability.

Who we are looking for:

• At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
• Demonstrate sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the Business Customers and Programmes.
• Demonstrate effective leadership & engineering skills.
• Capable of building high performing teams and affecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviours.
• Understand Company Quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group.
• Experienced in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we will be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.