Job Description
Job Title: Project Lead – Joint Reactor Team / System Integration Group - Submarines
Working Pattern: Full time
Working location: Barrow-in-Furness / Hybrid (3 Days in office per week at BAES site in Barrow)
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Project Controller to support the Joint Reactor Team and Power and Propulsion System Integration Team on-site at BAE-Systems. You’ll be joining a fast-paced team running enablement of key events and challenged with turbo charging risk mitigation opportunities to ensure programme demands are met. Barrow in Furness is a town in Cumbria, in the North-West England at the tip of the Furness peninsula, close to the Lake District.
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.
The role is based at the BAE Systems site in Barrow in Furness, with a team of engineers and project professionals from partner organisations. The role works daily with BAE Systems and MoD staff to deliver the Dreadnought class power and propulsion build and commissioning programme.
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.
This role brings with it a wealth of project and engineering challenges as well as the opportunity to significantly develop technical knowledge of components, systems, manufacturing techniques and test and commissioning methods.
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
- Developing and implementing enablement strategies for Test & Commissioning Key Events
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure good quality enablement data is collated, presented and actions appropriately progressed with action plans in place.
- Risk management through raising key risks to programme and developing and managing risk mitigation plans.
- Developing and managing risk and opportunity projects to ensure programme demands are met.
- Issue identification and resolution management across wide ranges of stakeholders and business partners.
- Interfacing and reporting of the enablement programme status both internally and externally to all levels.
- Business data and schedule interrogation, metric and slide pack creation and presentation to senior management.
- Interfacing with Rolls-Royce, MoD, Operations, Test & Commissioning and Planning to ensure schedule adherence.
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.
- Business priorities change rapidly, we’re looking for a project controller with experience of adapting and pivoting to the changing landscape.
- Enabling delivery through timely and high-quality team activities is key to our success. We’re looking for an individual who is experienced in working in effective project delivery teams.
- Strong network across submarines enterprise and ability to communicate and influence at all levels.
- Working knowledge of reactor and secondary systems and understanding of the key stages of submarine test and commissioning including – Test Path knowledge, Test Procedures, Test Equipment Diagrams, Key Event requirements.
- Experience of Risk & Opportunity management and realisation of project benefits.
- Good understanding of the role of data management systems in managing organisational data and information and an in-depth understanding of various data sets including – Teamcenter, SAP, BoM and Engineering Maturity, Engineering Change.
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.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.
Job Category
Project Management
