Job Description
Manufacturing Services Leader
Full time
Derby
We have an exciting opportunity within the Rotatives Derby, for a Manufacturing Services Leader.
In this role you will manage employees to provide Manufacturing Services support to an Operations facility. You will be accountable for the performance and results of their team and adapt plans and priorities to set direction for their 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’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:
In this role you will operate within defined manufacturing services and other standards and policies to address resource and operational challenges, whilst leading others through a good knowledge of manufacturing services. You will operate autonomously receiving guidance from management when the impact is broader, outside their team or the subject is more complex, in addition you will:
- Implement the Company Health, Safety and Environment policy in all aspects of Manufacturing Services, understands and deploys all legislative requirements and control standards through effective communication, processes and actions that support safe and compliant workplaces and equipment.
- Use conceptual and practical knowledge across Manufacturing Services activities to ensure that all Manufacturing Services accountabilities for the facility are enacted to the required level and within the set timescales utilising company processes, procedures and standards.
- Input into the development of, and will take ownership of their budget, applying business acumen to achieve financial objectives.
- Apply management expertise and knowledge to set direction and resolve problems in own team.
- Seek input from other managers and professionals in Manufacturing Services to ensure best practice and a consistent approach is shared and adopted.
- Coach their team and related teams on technical aspects of Manufacturing Services, contributing to business improvement in their technical area. Guides their team to address general challenges.
- Apply understanding of Rolls-Royce and how their own Manufacturing Services team integrates with others to achieve objectives of the Area (and function) they sit within. Liaises with the Manufacturing Manager(s) and is fully integrated within the area manufacturing team.
- Manage one or more generally homogeneous teams; adapts plans and priorities developed by the leaders of their Area, to meet operational objectives.
- Set the direction of their team by operationalising the plans and priorities developed by the leaders of Manufacturing Services and their Area. Impacts the team’s ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives.
- Ensure that agreed performance targets for all manufacturing services accountable items are monitored using standard tools and KPIs, and ensures appropriate actions are taken where targets are not achieved.
- Ensure that Manufacturing Services is supporting the business by fully supporting the deployment of the latest Rolls-Royce Production System standards.
- Understand the IT systems we use to drive our management and leadership activity. Competent in the use of the tools to manage manufacturing services performance.
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. For this role you will need to demonstrate understanding of the appliable health and safety standards and we are looking for someone who is/has:
To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:
- Conceptual and practical knowledge of manufacturing services.
- Has had experience in functional support groups.
- Has a proven track record delivering business results.
- Demonstrated leadership whilst embracing behaviours that inspire team working and simplicity.
- Takes responsibility for their own development with particular focus on their leadership skills, has attended leadership development programmes.
- Has led transformation projects and is familiar with continuous improvement methodologies such as six sigma and lean (Green and/or Black belt desirable but not mandatory).
- Delivered manufacturing facility wide projects.
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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
