Production Leader

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Job Summary

Job Description

As a Production Leader at Rolls-Royce in Bristol, you will lead a team within a manufacturing cell, focusing on optimizing production performance and achieving Zero Harm and Zero Defects. Your responsibilities include ensuring safety standards, driving quality and efficiency, managing team performance and budgets, ensuring on-time delivery, and developing the team. You will be working towards customer commitments and fostering continuous improvement. The role requires a safety-first mindset, experience in improving operational performance, and leading cross-functional teams. The role offers excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Must have:
  • Safety-first mindset, with knowledge of health and safety standards.
  • Proven track record of improving operational performance.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
  • Continuous improvement expertise, ideally with Lean/Six Sigma experience.
Perks:
  • Excellent development opportunities
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Employee support assistance
  • Employee discounts

Job Details

Job Description

Production Leader – Bristol

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce, we’re dedicated to cutting-edge innovation, delivering power solutions, and creating the critical systems and technologies that shape the future of aviation, energy, and beyond. By joining Rolls-Royce, you’ll have the opportunity to work on world-changing projects, supported by a culture that champions inclusivity, creativity, and your professional growth.

Position summary

Lead, inspire, and drive excellence. Join us as a Production Leader at the state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce Bristol Turbine Facility. Taking charge of a dynamic team within defined manufacturing cell, you’ll optimise production performance and help us achieve Zero Harm and Zero Defects while delivering world-class products to our customers.

What you will be doing:

  • Leading a culture of Zero Harm, ensuring safety, environmental, and wellbeing standards are met.

  • Driving quality and efficiency, working towards Zero Defects and compliance with engineering and safety standards.

  • Managing team performance and budgets, optimising productivity, headcount, and cost efficiency.

  • Ensure on-time delivery, using capacity planning and workflow management to meet customer commitments.

  • Developing and empower the team, fostering continuous improvement, lean leadership, and digital manufacturing adoption.

Position Requirements:

  • You have a safety-first mindset, with knowledge of health and safety standards and product integrity.

  • With broad experience across disciplines, you’ll have a company-wide outlook and are comfortable dealing with different challenges, cultures and ways of working.

  • You can demonstrate a proven track record of improving operational performance and leading cross-functional teams.

  • You’ll have continuous improvement expertise, ideally with Lean/Six Sigma experience (Green Belt preferred).

What we offer:

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

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Posting End Date 30/06/2025

Job Category

Manufacturing

Posting Date

04 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

30 Jun 2025

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