Operations Manager - Manufacturing

Operations Manager - Derby

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Operations Manager to join a globally recognised leader in pioneering cutting-edge technologies. Located in Derby, this full-time, permanent position offers a chance to contribute to a company with a rich history of shaping the modern world and a clear vision for future progress. If you are passionate about driving operational excellence and leading high-performing teams, this role at Rolls-Royce could be a significant step in your career advancement.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Impactful Work: You'll be working on world-class solutions that power, protect, and connect people across the globe. This is an opportunity to be part of something truly significant.
• Culture of Inclusion and Innovation: Rolls-Royce fosters a culture where individuality is celebrated, and diverse perspectives are actively encouraged. This environment fuels innovation and supports a high-performance ethos.
• Career Development: The role offers significant leadership experience, with opportunities to inspire, coach, and develop a manufacturing team. Rolls-Royce's commitment to continuous improvement and a multi-year transformation programme means ample chances for personal and professional growth.
• Focus on Excellence: You will be accountable for meeting stringent customer commitments across HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people, and responsiveness, driving towards ambitious targets like Zero Harm and Zero Defects.
• Strategic Leadership: This position involves managing Production Leaders or strategic programmes, providing a platform for developing broad business acumen and strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities and What You'll Be Doing:

• Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE): Championing a "Zero Harm" culture, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and deploying environmental, safety, and wellbeing plans.
• Product Safety: Maintaining the highest standards to ensure product conformance and fostering a strong product safety culture.
• Quality: Driving for "Zero Defects" by collaborating across functions to minimise risks and ensure "right first time" product and service delivery.
• Cost Management: Effectively managing people budgets, understanding and controlling cell cost centres, and implementing strategies to boost productivity and reduce expenses.
• Delivery Excellence: Ensuring on-time delivery of products and services by optimising load and capacity, managing bottlenecks, and maintaining optimal WIP and inventory levels.
• People Development: Building a flexible and capable team through effective training, motivation, and development, ensuring team members are empowered and effective.
• Lean Principles: Leading the deployment and sustainment of the Production System, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and coaching the team in lean methodologies.
• Leadership: Inspiring the manufacturing team to achieve high performance through facilitation, coaching, and demonstrating lean leadership behaviours, empowering individuals to make decisions.
• Asset Optimisation: Maximising the performance of manufacturing assets to meet current and future demand, identifying constraints, and developing future state plans.
• Digital Manufacturing: Leveraging digital systems and processes to manage performance, drive manufacturing activities, ensure compliance with digital standards, and communicate strategy to leadership.

What We're Looking For (Key Experiences and Qualifications):

• A broad perspective, with exposure to diverse challenges and working methods.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering improved operational performance, even in challenging environments, by effectively leading cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience deploying continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) is highly valued. Green Belt accreditation or Lean Coach certification would be advantageous.
• Management experience within the engineering industry is preferred, though not strictly essential.
• Evidence of higher education and/or participation in leadership development programmes.
• An appreciation for product integrity and a company-wide outlook.

Your Future with Rolls-Royce:

Rolls-Royce is at the forefront of innovation, and this role offers a direct opportunity to contribute to their ambitious transformation programme. You'll be part of a company that values its people, believes in diversity, and is committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are ready to lead, innovate, and contribute to a company with a powerful legacy and an exciting future, this Operations Manager position in Derby is an exceptional career prospect.