Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Team Lead

Working Pattern: Hybrid - A minimum of 3 Days a week in the office
Working location: Bristol

Why Rolls-Royce? As an Engineering Team Lead you will lead, and line manage a team of engineers that design and develop low voltage power distribution and automation systems. You will be working closely with the programme management team to prioritise and allocate your engineers onto programme and projects to deliver against their engineering schedules.

NautIQ Solutions is a part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems that focuses on delivering electrical, automation and autonomy products to our Naval and Commercial Marine customers. The business is based around two Product Centres in Bristol and Heybridge with shared support resources provided from our team in East Grinstead; we operate an integrated programme delivery team across the Bristol and Heybridge sites. Work with us and we'll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

As part of Rolls Royce we offer excellent development, 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, a minimum of three days per week.

What you will be doing:

As an Engineering Team Lead you will be taking responsibility for a team of engineers that support a variety of programmes and projects for automation and low voltage power distribution systems, to meet customer demands and the organisation's strategic objectives; you will:

1. Report to the Capability Manager, leading and line managing a team of around 15 engineers, who are delivering solutions across multiple projects of varying complexity.
2. Act as the focal point for all aspects related to your teams engineering discipline and with support of the Engineering Governance Team, resolve technical issues as necessary.
3. Engage with the Programme Management team to ensure that engineering estimates are accurate and achievable so that plans are resourced with the right skills, to deliver against planned and emergent demands.
4. Support the business resource planning activities by providing resource and capability forecasts; including the skillsets (now and predicted) and the tools/infrastructure requirements.
5. Robustly manage the workflow into your team and engage with stakeholders to manage technical delivery of engineering schedules.
6. Report progress against the integrated plans, highlighting issues and identifying any priority calls needed.
7. Effectively communicate technical risks highlighted by your engineers and the technical governance team to the responsible programme management team.
8. Own the commitment, communication, and daily management of your teams resources in support of all programmes and projects.
9. Visibly support a strong, proactive commitment to Continuous Improvement/Lean.
10. Work closely with the engineering governance team to effectively manage your teams professional development.
11. Be a strategic thinker and comfortable with ambiguity - able to define and implement plans that achieve business delivery and growth of capability without being given detailed instruction.

Who we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours which are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. To be considered for this exciting role, you will require:

1. Hold a degree or equivalent level qualification in an appropriate engineering discipline or have equivalent industry experience.
2. A proactive, adaptable, and pragmatic mindset, willing to lead and serve your team to ensure they are fully enabled and supported in their work.
3. Proven experience in the management of technical engineering teams, ideally in a design and development context.
4. Understanding of the principles of Product Change Control & Design Change Approval, and the appropriate tools & processes to enable management.

It would be advantageous if you:

1. Are professionally registered with an engineering body, ideally at a chartered level.
2. Have experience in the authorship and approval of technical documentation and designs.
3. Hold programme management experience or qualifications to enable you to engage with the PM team effectively.

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. To apply for this role, you must be able to pass BPSS checks. You can learn more about our global strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce. Due to the nature of work the business conducts any non-UK or dual may require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work.

Closing date: 15th of October 2024
Type of Contract: Permanent