Design Safety Manager

An opportunity has arisen for a Design Safety Manager to join Rolls Royce in Bristol. We are a market leader in aero engines for military transport and patrol aircraft, with significant scale in naval applications and strong positions in combat and helicopter applications. We are pioneering more advanced and innovative power systems to ensure future combat air systems remain at the forefront of mission capability throughout their service.

Design Safety engineers influence design through understanding how failures will affect system operation, analysing the resulting design, providing feedback on any impact this will have on the safety or reliability of the system, and ensuring that it meets the appropriate standards. We are looking for a Design Safety Manager to supervise the Bristol team.

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 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 bonuses, 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’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, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing: The Design Safety Manager will manage the team of Design Safety Engineers supporting New Product Introduction within the Defence UK division. This includes:

• Leading and developing the members of their team within and beyond their respective disciplines, including individual and professional development, training, performance and reward management, HSE and security.
• Ensuring staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that the required skills are sustainable for the future through multi-skilling, staff rotation, and the competency framework tools and professional networks and standards.
• Providing technical leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensuring compliance to process throughout the life cycle activity.
• Ensuring that world-class capability is effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements and contribute to the Design Safety Strategy.
• Creating and maintaining resource plans to meet the overall delivery commitments.
• Ensuring that sufficient resources are available, through subcontracting and recruitment (whilst adhering to Company manpower policy) to meet current and future business needs and budgets.
• Ensuring effective knowledge management through the use of knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encouraging knowledge sharing within the group and beyond.
• Leading and driving efficiency through process review, teamwork, and implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work.

Who we’re 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. To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
• Knowledge/experience of Safety & Reliability engineering techniques.
• Demonstrates sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the Sector.
• Demonstrates effective leadership & engineering skills.
• Capable of building high performing teams and effecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviours.
• Understanding of Company Quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group.
• Experienced in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements.

To work for Rolls-Royce you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold UK nationality.

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.