Quality Approvals Manager

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Quality Approvals Manager

Full Time

Derby

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Approvals Manager within the Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace Regulatory Approvals team in Derby.

In this role, you will provide regulatory support, advice and expertise to the growing MRO business within Rolls-Royce, to ensure that the relevant laws/regulations and customer requirements are understood and delivered as part of the wider business strategy. Although focussed on EASA and UKCAA Part 145 Maintenance regulations, this will also include all regulatory approvals that the Rolls-Royce MRO business must comply with.

As a member of the Part 145 Regulatory team, you will be deployed across the wider Civil Aerospace business, initially to the Trent 1000 team, to develop the regulatory compliance strategy and then ensure the implementation and deployment of this strategy is effective. This is where your ability to influence senior stakeholders, both internal and external to Rolls-Royce, and to build networks internationally across the global regulatory authorities and the RR MRO regulatory teams, will be key to your success.

In addition to this, you will also support activities such as:

• Ensuring the robustness of the alignment between the RRMS and the associated regulatory requirements.
• Engaging across the wider RR landscape to ensure regulatory alignment – Supply Chain, LRU management, indirect resource planning.
• Standardising all regulatory approvals to ensure a consistent means of compliance across the business.
• Representing Rolls-Royce in regulatory/industry bodies, to influence the future regulatory landscape.

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:

In this exciting role, lead the deployment of the regulatory assurance strategy within the aligned business area to achieve its goals, enhance its reputation and deliver customer satisfaction, as well as:

• Develop the regulatory capability (skills & knowledge) and culture of direct reports, where applicable; as well as of personnel within the aligned business to ensure process compliance and meet regulatory, customer and business requirements.
• Govern the delivery of compliance performance (KPIs) to maximise efficiency and effectiveness in meeting requirements and business goals. Where performance diverges from target, drive appropriate mitigation through coaching or direct action.
• Ensure relevant law / regulation, customer requirements and business strategy are understood; to input into the compliance strategy and ensure the effective implementation and deployment of this into the aligned area. Where applicable, to fulfil a specific role as defined by applicable law / regulation and / or to manage the interface with a regulatory body/Customer.
• In partnership with the risk owners, provide proactive assurance within the aligned business area that regulatory, business and customer requirements will be met through an assurance strategy targeted at risks and associated controls. This may involve conducting on-site Audits in support of the agreed Audit Plan.
• To drive change to the Operating System, Management System and SABRe/GS3001 where necessary to mitigate risks, maximise effectiveness and eliminate cost / waste through insight obtained from proactive assurance and problem themes.
• Protect the business and customer through performing, governing and coaching of problem containment and resolution methods and tools, to minimise impact and to ensure the necessary corrective and preventative actions are completed and verified in a timely manner. Ensure the effective governance of Problem Management exists within the aligned area.
• Ensure all relevant regulatory documentation is maintained and aligned to the business and to the regulatory requirements by working with the aligned business to understand and define the appropriate means of compliance.
• Enable the aligned area to achieve Right First Time through the coaching and application of defect prevention methodologies and compliance to the Management System, reducing the risks from technical, human and organisational factors to our products.

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.

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

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of delivering Quality and/or Regulatory assurance through a previous role.
• Experience of Part 145/MRO Operations within Aerospace, Defence or related industries.
• Ideally, knowledge of problem solving and continuous improvement methodologies, eg; Six Sigma, 8D, Human Factors.
• Ideally, have operational experience of activities within the relevant approved organisation scope.

In addition to the above, the following skills are highly desirable:

• Change Management
• Coaching
• Governance Management
• Influencing Without Authority
• Integrity and Trust
• Problem Resolution
• Quality Assurance
• Regulations
• Risk Management

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

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