Manufacturing Manager

Manufacturing Manager – Full Time – On Site, Derby

Lead, inspire and coach a broader team of functional leaders within a defined manufacturing plant or business, ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards.

Key Accountabilities

• HSE: Accountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant, ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standards, and responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan.
• Product Safety: Ensure all work is carried out in compliance with required standards to meet engineering specifications and promote a product safety culture.
• Quality: Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects, ensuring cross‑functional teams integrate to reduce risk and deliver right‑first‑time, and comply with all relevant policies and standards.
• Cost: Develop and manage operational and financial budgets for the facility, monitoring and controlling performance to meet the budget.
• Delivery: Create an effective load and capacity planning regime, balance near and long‑term planning horizons, manage plant bottlenecks, drive inventory targets and eliminate slow‑moving WIP.
• People: Provide training, coaching and development for plant leadership; maintain succession and recruitment pipelines; optimise training plans across the plant.
• Lean: Deploy and sustain Production System minimum standards, coach cross‑functional teams for continuous improvement, and share best practice.
• Lead: Inspire manufacturing team to deliver high performance through facilitation, coaching and demonstration of lean leadership behaviours, and empower decision making.
• Risk & Business Continuity: Identify, assess and manage threats; maintain robust Business Continuity Plans for key resources; test them regularly.
• Manufacturing Services: Optimise performance of manufacturing assets to maximise productivity and meet current and future demand.
• Digital Manufacturing: Lead deployment of digital systems to improve product cost, quality and performance; manage and communicate digital strategy.
• Manufacturing Engineering: Facilitate development and operation of manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement).

Key Experiences and Qualifications

• Company‑wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Significant manufacturing roles across relevant functional areas, with breadth of experience and proven track record of delivering improved operational performance.
• Leadership of major transformation projects and expertise in continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean (Black Belt accreditation and/or Lean Coach desirable but not essential).
• Broad management experience in a high‑technology engineering industry (desirable).
• Higher education and attendance of leadership development programmes for senior or high‑potential leaders.

Regional Benefits

• Generous annual leave.
• Retirement savings through the Rolls‑Royce Retirement Savings Trust.
• Group Life Assurance for lump‑sum benefit.
• Income protection for earnings protection in case of illness or injury.
• Shares matched programme: Buy one share, get one free.

Rolls‑Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued and all perspectives fuel innovation.

Grade: Management Level B

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