Project Delivery Professional – Project Integration & Engagement Lead Submarines

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Job Title: Project Delivery Professional Project Lead Integration & Engagement Submarines

Working Pattern: Full-time 37 hours 60:40 Onsite / Remote with Travel (Bristol/London/Cardiff)

Working location: Derby

Do you want to have an impact on the future of UK defence

Do you enjoy working as a team to drive forwards complex and ambiguous programmes Decomposing varied and voluminous information to simplified messages that present compelling value cases and leveraging networks of people to make them real

Do you have an interest in establishing integrated engineering and project governance with clear ownership to empower delivery teams Effectively engaging stakeholders with different drivers and priorities to navigate to shared decisions

If so now is the time to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. Join us as Project Lead Integration & Engagement (Project Delivery Professional) where you will engage across a complex landscape that draws on multidisciplinary expertise to establish clear governance frameworks within Technology Programmes that integrate with business standards and underpin the work of our engineering teams on next generation product technologies.

You will work closely with the wider Project team Assistant Chief Engineering teams our customers network of Technical Leads and wider key stakeholders in the UK Ministry of Defence to achieve this as well as wider partners across the UK technical role you will report to the Project Delivery Manager Capability & Future Product. You will play a leading role within a wider team of project delivery professionals to integrate interfaces across the business and with our customer to align demands and assure clear and shared priorities driving project coherency and effective collaboration.

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.

Rolls-Royce Submarines is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navys nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. This role sits within the Future Programmes department where we work closely with our customer the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to advance the UKs submarine programme and ensure the UK has the capability it requires to meet the mission demands of today and tomorrow.

Well 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. Its a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum were all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

As a Project Governance & Engagement Lead you will:

• Contribute to a team of project delivery professionals to operate at a high standard and deliver exceptional service creating an environment that enables people to excel by sharing strengths and working as a collaborative team.
• Work closely with the Project Delivery Manager and Project Lead to integrate all aspects of stakeholder engagement across the business and with the customer to establish and operate effective collaborative governance arrangements aligned to our business processes (project and engineering).
• Lead on distilling voluminous complex information (programme and engineering) to simplified written summaries and visualisations able to be tailored for consumption by all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with the delivery team to maintain a clear line of sight on programme direction and manage related engagement and communication with relevant stakeholders.

Who were 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 have skills in:

• Stakeholder engagement and management; strong communication skills influences without authority can develop and deliver compelling value-cases translates competing demands to clear shared priorities.
  
• Governance: experience establishing and operating robust governance frameworks and effective forums that underpin cross-boundary engagement working with programme engineering and functional teams.

• Leadership: leading aspects of work within high performing teams delivering for internal and external stakeholders. Able to work collaboratively to deliver quality outputs at pace with clear a case and evidence.
  
• Technical communication experience beneficial: experience in the absorption decomposition and reproduction of highly technical information to simplified narratives.

• Programme or account management experience: knowledge of project management practices including business cases risk and benefits management; APM PMQ APMG PPC or equivalent experience.
  
• Resilience: experience working within challenging environments with significant levels of personal resilience persistence and commitment.

We are an equal opportunities employer. Were 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 well be. By building a culture of caring and belonging we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets associated with this role candidates must be UK nationals.

This role is at a staff level. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. Interest in similar roles at a staff level can be raised to the recruiter.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

Closing Date: 24.7.25

NGS: 9/10

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