Job Description Capability Lead – Design Change & Producibility Fulltime Solihull An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead – Design Change & Producibility, to join the Civil Engineering Delivery Controls Lifecycle Engineering Team, based in Solihull. As a Capability Lead – Design Change & Producibility, you will be accountable for leading a team of 10 to 20 Design Engineers working primarily on Civil Aerospace Programmes. It is an excellent opportunity to grow your technical leadership capability and further develop your people and programme leadership skills. The role will give you broad exposure engine systems, including the Oil, Pneumatics and Fuel systems across all engines and provides an excellent insight into the complete lifecycle of an Aerospace Gas Turbine Engine. In this role you and your team will be at forefront of Rolls-Royce’s drive to establish World Class Technical Response and Fix. Focused primarily on Control System Units you will be responsible for Minor Change and Technical Response in support of both Original Equipment (OE) and Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Operations. Why Rolls-Royce? This role is within the Controls Lifecycle Engineering Team, one of the teams within Civil Engineering Delivery. In addition to leading your team there will be an opportunity to contribute to the broader team's strategy of achieving World Class Technical Response and Fix, World Class MRO, and World Class Reliability across Civil Aerospace. 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 With this attractive opportunity, you will get a chance to: Provide technical leadership of an Engineering Team ensuring timely and pragmatic technical support is delivered to OE and MRO Operations whilst ensuring compliance to process throughout. Lead and drive efficiency through process review, teamwork and implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work aimed at provided consistent and predictable output to the Operations Teams. Play an active role in load/ capacity planning for the team and work with the wider functions to ensure suitable and capable people are available to complete programme deliverables. This includes engagement with third parties such as Managed Service Providers in line with agreed Do/Buy strategies. Plan, allocate team member, lead the delivery and approval of technical activities within your accountability. Own the relationship between engineering, supply chain and operations and ensure it is effectively managed and integrated. 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. Demonstrates sound and pragmatic engineering judgement with 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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce Closing date: 14 th February 2025. Job Category Mechanical Systems Posting Date 31 Jan 2025; 00:01 Posting End Date 14 Feb 2025