Capability Lead

3 weeks ago


Derby, United Kingdom Rolls-Royce Full time

Job Description

Capability Lead - Improvements - Submarines

Full-Time - 37 Hours - Hybrid

Raynesway, Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead - Improvements to join Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby.

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

As a Capability Lead - Improvements / Capability Engineer Improvements you will promote, facilitate, and coach continuous improvements activities within the Engineering team. Deliver agreed business targets & benefits by leading engineering improvement activities across the business.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

What you will be doing:
You will promote, communicate, and influence the agreed improvement landscape and can link the benefits of the improvement work streams against the business’ key objectives.
- Facilitate improvement workshops, problem resolution activities, improvement review sessions, and improvement showcases.
- Coach and support teams throughout various improvement activities
- Use improvement and problem-solving tools and techniques to lead and deliver improvements activities to help achieve the required levels of business performance.
- Collaborate and carryout best practice reviews of other areas and deploying these in other areas. Identifying good practice in your business and sharing it with relevant areas.

Who we are 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.
- Degree qualified in an engineering or equivalent discipline.
- Ideally; be green belt trained (or working towards).
- Be experienced in supporting business improvements at any level.
- Have ability to Influence team members and managers to improve process thinking and drive improvements.
- Demonstrate high quality relationship management skills to ensure highest quality stakeholder engagement.
- Proven ability to plan, schedule and monitor work to meet strict time and quality requirements.

We’re 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

Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.

Closing date: 5th April 2023

Job Category

Validation and Verification

Posting Date

28 Mar 2023; 00:03



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