Head of Delivery EC&I Submarines

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Head of Delivery EC&I Submarines

Full time hybrid 3 days a week in the office

Derby

Our nuclear business is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navys nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority managing all aspects of plant design safety manufacture performance and through-life support.

For over 50 years Rolls-Royce has been successfully designing and maintaining the control and instrumentation systems for the nuclear reactors that power the Royal Navys submarine fleet. We currently have multiple generations of reactor control and instrumentation in service and are delivering the next generation of systems to be used in the Dreadnought class of submarines and starting the development of the next class.

To sustain our capability and products for the next 50 years we are engaged in an active programme of research and development into control system technologies of the future.

A role within Submarines will offer you the opportunity to work across all phases of the product life cycle solving technical challenges across a wide range of digital software programmable hardware and electronics technologies systems and applications. We want you to maximise your potential and will support your technical development through coaching experience and training. This will include professional mentoring to continue your professional development.

You will be encouraged to bring in fresh ideas and generate creative ways of working to make a stepped improvement in our effectiveness allowing you to make an impact in delivering programmes that are strategically important to the nation.

What you will be doing

• Identify internal and / or external customer product and / or service needs and develop a strategy to meet those needs

• Successful delivery to cost quality time and scope for defined range of control account(s)

• Executes the developed strategy on behalf of the Head of Programme to meet identified and anticipated customer requirements

• Informing and leading the business to make the right priority decisions for the best programme outcomes

• Provide credible forecasts of delivery performance to all stakeholders

• Lead CAM reviews to provide quality information to programme reviews contract packs and customer reports

• Ensure that the relationships across functional workstreams and organisational boundaries are in place and support the CAMs to secure the required resource and dependencies

• Ensure that programme demands flowed into the business unit are coordinated through the CAM teams and have followed the correct commit/accept processes

• Provide strategic leadership direction and knowledge and able to work through ambiguity to focus the teams on the right priorities

• Form part of the Senior Leadership team.

• Ensure that best practices are developed or deployed across the programme and key interface business units.

• Lead integration of major work packages to deliver collective control account objectives

Why Rolls-Royce

Work with us andwellwelcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus employee supportassistanceand 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 locally managed and flexed informal discretionary a minimumwereall expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons on average three days per week.

Whowerelooking for

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent industry experience
• Member of a professional body Association of Project Management MAPM / FAPM and obtained Chartered Qualification ChPP
• Significant experience in the management of programmes / projects of increasing complexity
• Experienced in all stages of a programme lifecycle and has been responsible for the delivery of one or more of those stages
• Experience of or detailed exposure to other professional functions (i.e. Commercial Operations Engineering Purchasing Services)
• Demonstrable experience of leading large multi-faceted teams towards effective delivery of complex business requirement
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex information with individuals at all levels within the organisation
• Experience of identifying strategic direction

Join us &help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing competitive resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being athigh risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but isanticipatedto

This job is advertised at the grades shown and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

We are an equal opportunities to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people fromdifferent backgroundsand cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have the more successfulwellbe. 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

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 individualswho are a UK national or in MoD approved cases a dual national.

Grade:Management Level B

For further information please contact:Alison Connaughton

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