New Product Introduction - Production Leader

Job Title: New Product Introduction – Production Leader

Working Pattern: 37 hours days

Working location: Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a New Product Introduction Production Leader to lead, inspire and coach a team within a New Product Introduction manufacturing cell. Collaborating cross functionally with Programme management, Engineering and Production to develop complex, high precision components. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards, and the NPI projects are transitioned successful at rate into the PCO Facility.

What you will be doing:

1. HSE: Drive towards a performance and culture of Zero Harm. Ensuring our teams are trained and compliant to safety standards, driving environmental targets and promoting wellbeing.
2. PRODUCT SAFETY: Accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organisation.
3. QUALITY: Drive to Zero Defects. Work with all functions to reduce risks and drive product and service right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
4. COST: Develop and manage agreed people budget (headcount, productivity, absenteeism). Understand and manage the cell cost centre budget and work with the team to drive productivity and reduce consumable cost.
5. DELIVERY: Deliver our products and services to customer commitments on time. Plan using load and capacity tools and manage bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the cell. Understand WIP and inventory levels and drive to meet business targets.
6. PEOPLE: Optimise the capability and capacity of the cell by developing a flexible team. Develop and motivate team members ensuring they are trained, capable and effective.
7. LEAN: Ensure that all relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives and coaching the team to fully participate in continuous improvement.
8. LEAD: Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours. Motivate, delegate and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
9. ASSETS: Optimise the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand. Understand current constraints and develop a future state.
10. DIGITAL MANUFACTURING: Understand the IT systems we use to drive our management and leadership activity. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage cell and people performance.

Who we’re looking for:

1. Has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
2. Understanding/knowledge of multiple disciplines demonstrating breadth of experience.
3. Appreciation of product integrity.
4. Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilising cross-functional teams.
5. Has experience of deploying continuous improvement methodologies such as lean and six sigma, ideally with Green Belt accreditation.
6. Management experience in an engineering industry is ideal, but not essential.
7. Attended higher education and/or leadership development programmes.

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.

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

Closing date: 2.5.25

Job Category: Manufacturing Posting Date: 17 Apr 2025; 00:04 Posting End Date: 01 May 2025