Emerging Talent Safety, Risk & Operations Lead
Job Description
- LOSH and NEBOSH qualifications.
- Experience or strong interest in safety, wellbeing, or safeguarding.
- Project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Knowledge of risk assessments, HSE audits, and legislation.
- Agile thinker, adaptable to changing priorities.
- Collaborative team player passionate about supporting young people.
- Proactive, detail-oriented with ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- Ability to think independently and strategically.
- Experience managing stakeholders at different company levels.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Excellent development opportunities
- Competitive salary
- Exceptional benefits
- Bonus
- Employee support assistance
- Employee discounts
Job Description
Emerging Talent Safety, Risk & Operations Lead
Derby, UK
Derby with UK travel to our training centres and partners.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Emerging Talent Safety, Risk & Operations Lead, this is a key role in the Emerging Talent & GBS team. This role is a critical delivery role within our emerging talent structure and wider Global Business Services (GBS) team taking accountability for embedding best-in-class safety, risk, wellbeing, and safeguarding practices across our programmes. You’ll also work closely with the UK and Learning and Development Centre (LDC) delivery team on key projects, ensuring our initiatives not only meet regulatory requirements and align to our behaviours but also help our talent thrive against future skills.
A key part of this role is working closely with our training providers to ensure that they are meeting our health and safety expectations. You’ll play a key role within the LDC supporting the Accountable Person and HSE team to programme manage initiatives. This role also has scope to support safety, risk and wellbeing activities across our Global Emerging Talent model and GBS supporting projects and acting as a key point of contact / project manager.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the 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.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
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:
- Support the development and delivery of health, safety, wellbeing and safeguarding initiatives tailored to the needs of apprentices.
- Work collaboratively with the Emerging Talent Delivery team on cross-functional projects such as LDC academy control standards and risk management.
- Responsible for the UK audits of our training providers (apprentices), sharing best practise with our global training providers within the wider emerging talent team, risk assessments, continuity plans and business assurance
- Owning the emerging talent role out of Journey to Zero Harm, wider scope will include embedding this into GBS
- Project manage wellbeing and mental health training to be deployed within emerging talent working closely with subject matter experts
- Support the budget management of operational costs within the LDC, raising orders and tracking spend
- Continually seek improvements and efficiencies in how we deliver safety, wellbeing, support and work readiness to our emerging talent cohorts
- Engage with key stakeholders across the GBS business to champion wellbeing and safety practices.
Who we’re looking for
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. For this role you will need to demonstrate understanding of the appliable health and safety standards and we are looking for someone who is/has:
- Experience or strong interest in safety, wellbeing, or safeguarding (especially in an early careers or education context)
- Project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience or knowledge of risk assessments, HSE audits and HSE legislation
- Agile thinker, able to adapt quickly and respond to changing priorities.
- A collaborative team player who is passionate about supporting young people in their career journey
- A proactive, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines.
- Possess the ability to think independently, operate strategically as well as work successfully and cooperatively as part of a team.
- Have experience of managing a wide range of stakeholder working within different levels of the company.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- LOSH and NEBOSH (desired)
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.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
