Capability Lead - Electromechanical Design

Rolls-Royce • Full-time • Solihull, United Kingdom • 3d ago

Job Description

Capability Manager – Electromechanical Design

Full Time

Solihull/Hybrid – 3 days a week in the office

As the Capability Manager – Electromechanical Design, you’ll lead, develop, and engage assigned Engineering personnel to meet current and future business requirements. You’ll deploy assigned staff to approved business activities/technical programmes as well as own and support definition of the appropriate section of the Engineering strategy.

You’ll ensure compliance to process throughout the life cycle activity and ensure that world class capability is effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements.

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:

You will provide technical leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensure compliance to process throughout the life cycle activity.

Create and maintain resource plans to meet the overall delivery commitments.
Ensure that sufficient resource is available, through subcontract and recruitment (whilst adhering to Company manpower policy) to meet current and future business’ needs and budgets.
Own the appropriate section of the business strategy/programme and ensure that the capabilities and resources necessary to deliver the strategy have been identified.
Ensure effective performance management, ensuring that employees have relevant & appropriate objectives through the Business Plan Deployment Process.
Lead and develop the members of their team within and beyond their respective disciplines, including individual and professional development, training, performance and reward management, HSE and security.
Ensure 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.
Lead and manage the functional interfaces and to ensure that appropriate reviews take place throughout the engineering lifecycle processes involving appropriate experienced specialists and leaders.
Ensure effective knowledge management using knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond.
Lead and drive 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 embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To thrive in this role, you will need to:

Qualified to degree level or equivalent experience.
Demonstrates sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the Sector Customers and Programmes
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.

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.

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

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines 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 already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.