Asset Maintenance Manager – Submarines

Company: Rolls-Royce
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Location: East Midlands
Job Description:

Asset Maintenance Manager – Derby, UK

On‑site, 5 days per week.

Job Description

Manages and oversees the safe, efficient, and compliant maintenance of nuclear facilities and equipment. Bridges the gap between engineering maintenance and strict regulatory frameworks, ensuring all tasks align with site safety cases, license conditions, and environmental standards. Leads a maintenance team and ensures all equipment, fixturing, tooling, and services required for manufacturing processes are available to the requisite standard.

The Role

Accountable for the performance and results of the team. Adapts plans and priorities, makes decisions, and problem solves guided by policies, procedures, and plans. Operates within defined functional standards and policies to address resource and operational challenges, leading others through a strong knowledge of functional processes. Provides leadership and coaching for maintenance teams within the facility.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure all preventive and corrective maintenance activities are executed in strict accordance with the facility’s nuclear safety cases.
  • Lead and mentor a Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (SQEP) maintenance team.
  • Mitigate radiological and industrial hazards during maintenance outages and routine operations.
  • Support audits and coordinate with regulatory bodies, ensuring that all plant modifications adhere to national nuclear legislation.
  • Plan and oversee maintenance schedules to minimise equipment downtime while preventing breaches of operating limits.
  • Accountable for team compliance with environmental and waste management requirements in accordance with local operating instructions, Nuclear Licence, and relevant aspects of Environmental Permits.
  • Contribute to the development of, and take ownership of, the budget, applying business acumen to achieve financial objectives.

Qualifications

  • Conceptual and practical knowledge of manufacturing services.
  • Experience in functional support groups.
  • Proven track record delivering business results.
  • Demonstrated leadership while embracing behaviours that inspire teamwork and simplicity.
  • Has taken responsibility for personal development with a focus on leadership skills and has attended leadership development programmes.
  • Has led transformation projects and is familiar with continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean (Green and/or Black belt desirable but not mandatory).
  • Delivered manufacturing facility‑wide projects.

Security Clearance

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business, an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently have this in place. Due to the nature of work, the business can only progress applications from individuals who are UK nationals or, in MoD approved cases, dual nationals.

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Posted: July 8th, 2026