Component Engineering Group Lead (Vessels/Pumps/Valves) - Submarines

Component Engineering Group Lead - Submarines

Full-Time

Glasgow/Hybrid (3 day/week in the office)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Component Engineering Group Lead, leading the Vessels and Installations (V&I) and Pumps and Valves design teams within the Glasgow Office.

As the Component Engineering Group Lead, you will be responsible for the delivery of the team’s work, to time, cost, quality and in line with the relevant Rolls-Royce processes. Using your knowledge and expertise in component design to mentor and develop the team to enable growth in technical capability in the Glasgow Office.

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

What you will be doing:  

• Defining and delivering robust verification, Safety Justification and technical outputs,  checking own and others design solutions for technical completeness and correctness.
• Responsible for planning, project managing and delivering technical packages/investigations in line with programme milestones within agreed cost, timescale and quality requirements, including managing inputs from specialist areas and integrating activities to achieve the defined requirements.
• Leading the resolution and recovery from emergent issues.
• Developing and pro-actively assessing internal and external resource, contributing and supporting their capability development in line with business need.
• Creating and promoting a compliance culture within your team. Ensuring team members understand and are complaint with company policies, procedures and standards (including the RRMS) and in an ethical manner.
• Ensuring team members understand and maintain a focus on efficiency and continuous improvement. Encouraging teams to innovate and challenge the status quo whilst maintaining high standards of process compliance and product safety. 

Position Qualifications:  

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is/has: 

• Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
• Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activities supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance /refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
• Experience of managing work packages and people

Additional desirable qualifications/experience:

• Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.
• Chartered status or other similar accreditation.

For more than 60 years Rolls-Royce Submarines has designed, supplied and supported the nuclear propulsion plant, providing power for all UK Royal Navy nuclear submarines. 

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t already have it. Due to the nature of work we conduct, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

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