Manufacturing Services Leader

**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**:

- 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.
- 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.
- 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 t