Job Description
Job Title: Australian Capability – Naval Integration Manager
Working Pattern: Full Time (37 hours) - Up to 1 days a week at waterfronts.
Working location: Derby and/or Waterfronts
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 or as needed to support facility operational demands
What You Will Be Doing
Key Accountabilities will include:
- To be the senior interface for the Australian In-Service aspects of Phase 1 (Astute) & Phase 3 (SSNA) within the business (both internally & externally).
- Internally through being the senior interface between the Australian Capability department and the Services DBU,
- Externally through being the senior interface to the AUKUS Navy’s externally.
- To work collaboratively and inclusively both internally (e.g. with the in-service DBU) and externally with trilateral governments, Navy Command and industry partners.
- To lead the development and execution of a roadmap for the RR capabilities (people, product, tools, infra / facilities) required for the in-service AUKUS objectives in Australia across Pillar 1.
- This includes the growth of UK capacity to achieve this, alongside a strategy to efficiently develop Australia’s NSQEP to meet their programme and the overall AUKUS objectives.
- To identify and develop suitable strategies and interventions to meet the business and Australian demand.
- To work beyond your role scope where required to develop breadth and given the dynamic nature of the role – of particular focus would be our Services business unit capabilities and programmes.
- Provide Engineering and Technical leadership and support to the Australian Capability team.
- Support the definition and deployment of the business strategy for Australia.
- In partnership with Programme and Project Management, develop and communicate the plan for delivering to our customers on time.
- Ensuring compliance with the Rolls-Royce Management System requirements throughout the life cycle of the contract by implementing effective Risk Management and Project Gated Review Processes for relevant deliverables or packages of work.
- Protect our people by applying HS&E policy including being committed to continuous improvement.
- Recruit, train, and retain appropriate SQEP resources and deploy them effectively to support the customer.
Who We’re Looking For
In 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.
To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:
- Relevant Degree level qualification or appropriate equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience within several of:
- Nuclear Reactor Plant Operations and in-service experience.
- Experience of working with Navy Command and Submariners.
- Delivery of complex programmes or projects.
- Demonstrated sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the business, customers and programmes.
- Understanding of in-service platform operations, capabilities in support of operational platforms.
- Understanding of Availability Centre (RRADARS/Data Centre/MROD, maintenance planning) and the capabilities IMRS Develop and Delivery.
- Proven customer facing experience including working on projects with a range of internal and external stakeholders, especially academia or industrial technology centres.
- Excellent communications, negotiation, and diplomacy skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation and externally.
- Experience of working and leading within a multi-disciplined team or indirect (matrix) team.
- Analytical skills to independently understand complex and competing requirements and govern those projects.
Join us & Power our future.
Pioneers of Power
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
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.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual must 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 a person must be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.
Grade: C
Job Category
Engineering for Services
Posting Date
07 Jul 2025; 00:07
Posting End Date
07 Jul 2025
