Job Description

Project Lead

Full Time

Derby, Birmingham/Hybrid (3 day/week in the office)

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Lead to join our Operations and Portfolio team within the Electrical, Electronics, Software Control System Design and Product Cyber Security (E24S) organisation at Rolls-Royce.

In this role, you will lead and integrate projects and work packages, whilst working closely with deployed engineering teams.

We deliver the best jet engines in the world and every great product needs a great business behind it. We’re proud to be part of the pathway to net zero as we power society for generations to come.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

Join Rolls-Royce and become part of a busy, world-class engineering and manufacturing environment.

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:

You will be responsible for planning and executing projects for Engineering Development Programmes within our E24S organisation. You’ll:

• Be accountable for the successful delivery to cost, specification and time for a defined package of work.
• Establish, develop and maintain the documentation necessary to deliver the package of work.
• Administration and maintenance of the project plans in Primavera P6 and integrating with the programme master schedule.
• Act as the focal point for all aspects related to the packages of work.
• Capture, monitor, and report on status of the project lifecycle.
• Provide key stakeholders with information, necessary to make management decisions.
• Organise and chair schedule review meetings and report areas where executive decisions need to be made.
• Ensure the implementation of company management processes is effective and efficient.
• Develop and implement Project Management best practice in line with company management processes.
• Employ continuous improvement techniques to ensure learning and development delivers business efficiencies and lean practices.

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 and for this role in particular we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Project management experience.
• A blend of analytical, interpersonal, presentation, negotiation and project management skills.
• A sense of business acumen combined with good judgement and effective planning skills.
• An effective problem solver who is able to act decisively to implement optimal solutions and feel comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Degree level qualification and/or equivalent industry experience. APM and Prince 2 qualifications – desirable.
• Knowledge and experience of Systems and Software development lifecycle -desirable. Ideally, experience of working on agile or waterfall software development projects.
• Experience with MS Excel.
• Experience with MRP Primavera P6, MS Project, data warehouse systems and reporting tools - desirable.

Join us & Make an impact

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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