Planning and Control Lead - Submarines

Full Time

Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Planning & Control (P&C) Lead to join the Planning & Control functional team within Submarines. This will be an interesting challenge for someone looking to test their skills in leading and delivering both functional improvement projects and supporting broader Submarines initiatives and P&C capability development in an environment of significant change.

Why Rolls-Royce?

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.

The role spans aspects of project management or improvements, process & system enhancements, and new capabilities, to deliver key aspects of the Functional Plan.

What we offer:

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. 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 exciting opportunity you will get a chance to be involved with the following:

• You will ensure the creation, maintenance, and execution of detailed plans for all given projects, including managing all stakeholder communications.
• You will interface with various functional groups throughout the project and value stream life cycle.
• You will plan, design and implement capable supply chains on a total cost basis, resulting in engineered supply chain solutions for new product introduction, modifications and change of source & new facilities within the supply chain.
• You will provide ongoing support for supply chain changes as applicable through the product life cycle to ensure sustained production readiness, leading where required value stream mapping and Integrated Production and Production Readiness.
• You will prepare and deliver relevant planning & control information to achieve key milestone gate reviews required by the project.
• You will act as the focal point for all aspects related to the Planning & Control Projects/Portfolios/packages of work, including skills and process capability development projects.
• You will act as independent assessor for Production Rate Readiness assessments ensuring P&C principles are sufficiently considered and appropriate actions and accountability are clear.

Who we’re 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.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Experience of delivering projects and change programmes
• ​Experience within either Planning & Control or Manufacturing Functions, and working with complex Manufacturing businesses ​
• Ability to manage stakeholder engagement and requirements, deal with ambiguity and complexity and work in a disciplined and structured manner
• Self-starter with drive to deliver key milestones and elements of the Functional Plan.
• Interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role.
• Knowledge of New Build facilities project models such as FPM and Production Readiness processes such as IPPR or APQP are desirable.
• Experience of working with MRP Systems, particularly SAP, preferable but not essential.

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 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.

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To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.