Manufacturing Manager - Submarines

Working Pattern: 37 hours Days

Working location: Raynesway Derby

Why Rolls-Royce Submarines?

Our Submarines business is world leading in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy's Nuclear Submarine Fleet. It is the sole provider and technical authority, managing all aspects of plant design, safety, manufacture, performance, and through-life support.

The New Build & Components (NB&C) business unit is responsible for Component Delivery, Engineering and New Build Programmes, and is responsible for the Barrow site integration teams. The focus for NB&C is on delivering Dreadnought, the UK's top defence priority and most important programme in a generation. This needs to be achieved while maintaining our remaining commitments to build and commission the final two Astute class platforms and overcoming the challenges in the regeneration of our facilities and preparations for the SSN-AUKUS programme.

The Dreadnought class is the future replacement for the Vanguard class of ballistic missile submarines to enable the Royal Navy to maintain a continuous at-sea deterrent, the principle of operation behind the Trident system. The programme is part way through building the lead boat at the BAE Systems shipyard at Barrow in Furness and construction has commenced on the second and third boats. The platform will use a PWR3 reactor - the third generation of British pressurised water reactors, which has been designed by Rolls-Royce and builds upon extensive nuclear propulsion development. Rolls-Royce also supplies secondary propulsion equipment including propulsors and turbo generators to the submarine programmes.

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.

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:

• Health & Safety
  Accountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant. Ensuring full compliance to health, safety, and environmental standards. Responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan. Actively involves all the plant in well-being activities.
• Product Safety & Quality
  Accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organisation. Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects for the plant. Ensure cross-functional teams integrate to reduce risk and drive right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
• Cost
  Develop agreed operational and financial budgets for the facility and monitor and control the performance to ensure the budget is met.
• Delivery
  Develop and execute an effective load and capacity planning regime that supports the delivery of the "Value Chain", balancing near and long-term planning horizons in line with strategy. Manage plant & process bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the plant. Drive plant inventory targets and eliminate technical "stops & holds" to enable WIP flow.
• People
  Engage & inspire our people through the "Winning together" mantra to achieve high performance across the business. Ensure that plant leadership cross functional team members receive training, coaching and development to carry out their roles effectively. Ensure that robust people plans (succession, recruitment pipeline) are in place for key roles. Drive plant flexibility by optimising training plans across the plant.
• Lean
  Ensure that relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives. Coach the cross functional team to continuously improve. Ensures the seeking and sharing of best practice internally and externally.
• Leadership
  Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours. Motivate, delegate, and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
• Business Risk & Continuity
  Ensure that potential threats to the objectives of the plant are regularly and clearly identified, assessed and managed to acceptable levels, and that effective controls are maintained to keep threats at those residual levels. Ensure that robust Business Continuity Plans are in place for all key resources (including e.g. building & infrastructure, equipment, input materials, IT, people) and are refreshed and tested regularly.
• Manufacturing Services
  Optimises the performance of manufacturing assets to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand.
• Digital Manufacturing
  Understand and lead the deployment and use of digital systems and processes to improve product cost, quality, and performance. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage area and people performance and leads compliance to digital standards and processes. Ensures business strategy aligns to RR digital manufacturing standards and strategy. Communicate to the plant leadership team using digital tools, and able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.
• Manufacturing Engineering
  Facilitate the development and operation of the manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement through appropriate toolsets) within the facility.

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.
• Has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Held significant manufacturing roles across a range of relevant functional areas, demonstrating breadth of experience and of implementing change at pace.
• Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilising cross-functional teams.
• Leadership of major transformation projects and an exponent of continuous improvement methodologies such as six sigma and lean (Black Belt accreditation and/or Lean Coach desirable but not essential).
• Ideally, but not essential, broad management experience in a high technology engineering industry.
• Attended higher education and leadership development programmes for senior or high potential leaders.

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.

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Closing date: 3/7/25