Project Delivery Professional – Research & Technology Project Lead - Submarines

Job Description Job Title: Project Delivery Professional – Research & Technology Project Lead – Submarines Working Pattern: Full-time – 37 hours – 60:40 Onsite / Remote – Occasional Travel Working location: Derby Do you want to have an impact on the future of UK defence? Do you enjoy working as a team to drive forwards complex and ambiguous programmes? Leveraging networks of people, processes, assets, and data to develop clearer operating structures and deliver outcomes? Does your curiosity push you to understand the ‘why’ we do what we do? And to seek out insights to drive improvements, from the incremental to the more radical? If so, now is the time to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. Join us as Research & Technology Project Lead (Project Delivery Professional), where you will take on responsibility for the delivery of our Research and Technology (R&T) programme. In this role you will manage across a complex landscape that draws on multidisciplinary engineering expertise, to define and deliver an integrated programme of work that drives UK readiness to respond to current and future technological risks. You will work closely with our Assistant Chief Engineering teams and with our customer network of Technical Leads at the UK Ministry of Defence to achieve this – as well as wider partners across the UK technical base. In role you will report to the Project Delivery Manager – Research & Technology. You will play a leading role within a wider team of project delivery professionals to plan, manage and control performance; diagnosing challenges and driving management action to ensure successful delivery of R&T work that has an impact on our current and future programmes. 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. Rolls-Royce Submarines is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. This role sits within the Future Programmes department, where we work closely with our customer, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), to advance the UK submarine programme and ensure the UK has the capability it requires, to meet the mission demands of today and tomorrow. 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 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: As Research & Technology Project Lead, you will: Work closely with the Project Delivery Manager, engineering teams, subject matter experts and specialists to support the definition of programme requirements. Lead on mobilising the respective resources and activities necessary to deliver against requirements, including integration with wider business areas and functions. Take responsibility for the delivery of work to cost, specification and time – in line with business financial commitments. Plan, monitor, review, and report on the status of assigned scopes of work in accordance with the project requirements and project management processes – including management of necessary documentation, artefacts, and executive system data. Develop the wider team of R&T project delivery professionals to operate at a high standard, improving individual skillsets and team operation (processes, systems, tools, methods) to deliver exceptional service. Deputise for the Project Delivery Manager and represent the programme at internal and external reviews and meetings when necessary. Act as a focal point for the project, leading on stakeholder management and project management governance activities, proposing and making decisions (as appropriate within delegations), providing direction and ensuring any escalations are made clearly to project leadership with clear evidence and options for action. 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 have skills in: Stakeholder engagement and management; strong communication skills, ability to lead cross-functional teams to work across boundaries, can interpret competing demands to identify issues and propose actions. Analysis and interpretation of complex data in order to make decisions and/or recommendations, backed by logic and evidence, to solve problems and propose priorities in complex, multifunctional environments. Leadership experience: developing high-performing teams to deliver work for external stakeholders, able to coach teams to apply robust challenge and deliver quality outputs, at pace, with clear logic and evidence. Programme management experience: knowledge of project management and controls practices, including schedule, risk, performance and financial management; APM PMQ or equivalent experience. Good working knowledge of Programme Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and business MI systems such as SAP, Primavera P6, FULCRUM and integrating across these tools. Resilience: experience working within challenging environments, with significant levels of personal resilience, persistence, and commitment. 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 Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets associated with this role, candidates must be UK nationals. This role is at a staff level. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. Interest in similar roles can be raised to the recruiter. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role. Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. Job Category Project Management Posting Date 14 May 2025; 00:05 Posting End Date 18 May 2025 Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet vital power needs.