MRO Workscoping Lead

Job Description

MRO Work Scope Lead

Location: Derby – Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)

Hours: 37 hours per week

Rolls-Royce is seeking an experienced and driven MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) Workscope Lead to join our world-class team in Derby. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering input that powers our global aviation services, ensuring our engines keep the world moving.

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

As an MRO Work Scope Lead, you will have a direct impact on our global operations, ensuring that engineering work scopes for commercial aviation products are delivered on time and to the highest standard. You’ll lead a talented team of Managed Service Engineers, driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement across our processes.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and directing a managed service engineering team, establishing governance, frameworks, and efficient processes for delivering work scopes.
• Acting as the primary interface between Rolls-Royce and its customers insights, and repair/maintenance recommendations that build trust and strengthen long-term relationships.
• Collaborating with aftermarket operations planning to ensure engine-specific priorities are met in real time.
• Proactively managing engineering requirements to control MRO scope creep and minimise risk of pass-off failures.
• Standardising common work scope resolutions across products, driving improvements through data analysis and feedback from MRO shops.
• Responding to emerging trends and technical requirements as engines evolve throughout their lifecycle.
• Engaging with technical specialists, data systems, and engineering teams to ensure robust decision-making and consistent outputs.
• Identifying systemic issues, recommending process improvements, and working with lifecycle and methods engineering teams to implement changes.

This is a challenging and exciting role, offering the opportunity to make a visible difference to our operations and to directly influence the reliability and performance of our products worldwide.

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce, we live by our values: we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference. We are seeking someone who shares these values and brings the following qualities:

• Experience in a similar domain is desirable but not essential — we welcome ambitious, driven individuals ready to step up.
• A proactive, curious, and motivated self-starter who thrives on finding opportunities and solving problems.
• Strong engineering judgement with the ability to make and justify technical decisions.
• Proven technical problem-solving skills, with the awareness of when to seek specialist input.
• A pragmatic, balanced approach to challenges, always looking for simplification and improvement.
• Results-driven and customer-focused, recognising the financial and reputational impact of MRO activity.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
• Excellent communicator who can engage effectively at all levels of the business and lead diverse, remote teams.
• Knowledge of gas turbine components, system functionality, and failure modes.
• Technical authoring experience is desirable but not essential.

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

Closing Date: [Insert Date]

Job Category

Engineering for Services