Project Lead - Submarines

Project Lead - Submarines

Project Lead - Submarines

Job Title: Project Lead - Submarine Enterprise Collaborative Hub (Submarine Delivery Enterprise)

Working Pattern: Full-time – 37 hours – Approx. 60/40 Onsite/Remote

Working location: Bristol/Hybrid

Do you want to have an impact on the future of UK defence? Do you enjoy developing knowledge of complex systems; how networks of people, processes, assets and data intersect to deliver outcomes? Does curiosity lead you to find insights and drive improvements, from the incremental to the more radical?

If so, now is the time to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. Working with our customer, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and a broader network of industrial partners, we are on a mission to advance the UK’s submarine programme; diagnosing enterprise challenges and working together to deliver some of the most exciting and complicated engineering on the planet.

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.

Join us as a Project Lead in the Submarine Enterprise Collaborative Hub as part of Rolls-Royce Submarines’ Services Business and you will uncover a unique opportunity to work with wide-ranging stakeholders, drawing on submarine programme knowledge, data, and information from diverse sources to deliver integrated portfolio performance assessments and thought-leading insights.

In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work alongside multiple organisations as part of the Submarine Delivery Enterprise (SDE). The SDE is tasked with collaboratively identifying levers to enhance UK submarine capability and availability (through integrating our complex submarine enterprise) and developing collaborative project arrangements (to enable, at pace, improved delivery of increasing programme demands). You will gain exposure to the full scale of the submarines portfolio and to integrate.

The SDE team is based in Bristol, UK. Applicants will need to be available to attend on-site meetings 2-days per week with occasional UK travel to enterprise / partner sites. Outside of these requirements, we encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing

As a Project Lead in the Submarine Enterprise Collaborative Hub, you will work with stakeholders across varied disciplines and enterprise organisations to cohere networks, knowledge, information and data, delivering comprehensive portfolio performance assessments at a strategic level. You will conduct analysis to identify key enterprise programme issues, evaluate common root causes, and engage collaboratively to craft strategic recommendations for the consideration of enterprise leaders and the MoD customer.

Strong experience in critical, analytical and strategic thinking will be key in this role. A project, business or strategic background and/or scenario modelling experience would be advantageous. You will be supported by the Rolls-Royce Lead for SDE engagement and our partners within the Collaborative Hub. In role, you will be expected to work closely with industrial partners across the full platform system and lifecycle.

With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Support the establishment of the collaborative hub: networks, methodology and approach.
• Build networks to collate knowledge, information and data, and explore enterprise scenario modelling tools.
• Apply critical, analytical and strategic thinking over inputs to assess enterprise performance and derive insights.
• Author portfolio assessments, technical reports, and proposals; working with a wider team of analysts.
• Contribute to development of a long-term business case for project continuity and roll-out of recommendations.

Who we’re looking for:

To be successful in this role you will need skills in:

• Stakeholder engagement/management; strong communication skills, the ability to identify and engage relevant people for consultation and ability to translate complex information to clear briefs.
• Operational autonomy and the ability to progress workload independently, synthesising information gained to define and unpack complex objectives into actionable plans and scopes of work.
• Engage with challenging asks and approach open-ended questions with a curious mindset.
• Experience in project management practice and business change or improvement, including formal qualifications (e.g. APM, ChPP status, Lean Six Sigma) would be advantageous.
• Knowledge / experience of working in the defence nuclear sector is a significant asset but not essential.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality.

Job Category

Project Management

Posting Date

14 Jan 2025; 00:01

Posting End Date

21 Jan 2025