Engineering Manager – Non-Conformance Authority

Job Description

Engineering Manager – Non-Conformance Authority

Full Time

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.

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.

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, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

• Leadership of the Non-Conformance Authority (NCA) engineering staff, delivering engineering dispositioning of Non-Conformance including Concession, Deviation Permit, Technical Assurance Document (TAD) and Definition Alteration Request (DAR).
• Ensure the safety of our products and of our people.
• Determine and drive non-conformance delivery milestones, including the ‘Top 90’ priority targets plus the 10% backlog reduction.
• Drive continuous improvement through the ‘improvement workstreams’ to maximise the effectiveness of non-conformance delivery.
• Manage the off-load of non-conformance workload to the Fully Managed Service provider, looking at opportunities to improve the effectiveness of non-conformance output.
• Serve as the prime customer and programme technical interface for NCAs and DARs
• Maintain and present metrics and business performance to the Engineering and Programme leadership teams
• Ensure compliance with the company's processes and policies, as well as any external requirements
• Manage the resource and budget and engage, as required, in the regular planning cycles, as well as the appropriate prioritisation mechanisms.
• Maintain and develop the competencies within the team, and support the professional development and succession planning of this critical team.
• Ensure appropriate the team's resources are deployed, directed and co-ordinated

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.

• Qualified to at least degree level.
• Engineering domain knowledge to enable rapid understanding of the technical subject matter within this role.
• Project Management experience in planning, controlling budgets and driving to schedules.
• Engineering and technical competence, sufficient to enable decision making commensurate with size of package.
• Experience applying Systems approach or equivalent.
• Experience in leading an Engineering team.

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. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce