MRO Workscoping Lead

Job Description
MRO Work Scope Lead
Location: Derby – Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Rolls-Royce is seeking an experienced and driven
MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) Workscope Lead
to join our world-class team in Derby. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering input that powers our global aviation services, ensuring our engines keep the world moving.

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 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
As an
MRO Work Scope Lead
, you will have a direct impact on our global operations, ensuring that engineering work scopes for commercial aviation products are delivered on time and to the highest standard. You'll lead a talented team of Managed Service Engineers, driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement across our processes.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Leading and directing a managed service engineering team, establishing governance, frameworks, and efficient processes for delivering work scopes.
• Acting as the primary interface between Rolls-Royce and its customers insights, and repair/maintenance recommendations that build trust and strengthen long-term relationships.
• Collaborating with aftermarket operations planning to ensure engine-specific priorities are met in real time.
• Proactively managing engineering requirements to control MRO scope creep and minimise risk of pass-off failures.
• Standardising common work scope resolutions across products, driving
• improvements through data analysis and feedback from MRO shops.
• Responding to emerging trends and technical requirements as engines evolve throughout their lifecycle.
• Engaging with technical specialists, data systems, and engineering teams to ensure robust decision-making and consistent outputs.
• Identifying systemic issues, recommending process improvements, and working with lifecycle and methods engineering teams to implement changes.

This is a challenging and exciting role, offering the opportunity to make a visible difference to our operations and to directly influence the reliability and performance of our products worldwide.

Who We're Looking For
At Rolls-Royce, we live by our values: we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference. We are seeking someone who shares these values and brings the following qualities:

• Experience in a similar domain is desirable but not essential — we welcome ambitious, driven individuals ready to step up.
• A proactive, curious, and motivated self-starter who thrives on finding opportunities and solving problems.
• Strong engineering judgement with the ability to make and justify technical decisions.
• Proven technical problem-solving skills, with the awareness of when to seek specialist input.
• A pragmatic, balanced approach to challenges, always looking for simplification and improvement.
• Results-driven and customer-focused, recognising the financial and reputational impact of MRO activity.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
• Excellent communicator who can engage effectively at all levels of the business and lead diverse, remote teams.
• Knowledge of gas turbine components, system functionality, and failure modes.
• Technical authoring experience is desirable but not essential.

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.

Job Category
Engineering for Services

Posting Date
07 Nov 2025; 00:11

Posting End Date
16 Nov 2025