Operations Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Operations Manager

Working Pattern: Full-time onsite

Working Location: Bristol

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping the future of advanced manufacturing? We’re offering an exceptional opportunity to join Rolls-Royce in Bristol as an Operations Manager—a role that sits at the heart of production leadership. You’ll drive performance across safety, quality, cost and delivery, while empowering a high-impact team to reach new heights. This role is pivotal to our mission to deliver excellence Civil Aerospace and meet our customers’ most critical needs.

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.

What you will be doing:

Working in our Civil Aerospace business, you’ll be leading the teams responsible for making the world-famous parts and engines we’re known for.

You’ll be part of a culture built on excellence, accountability, and inclusive leadership. With access to structured development, continuous improvement programmes and digital manufacturing initiatives, you’ll have every opportunity to grow your impact and leadership profile.

Your role will involve leading, inspiring and coach a team within a defined manufacturing area. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards. Lead and manage a team of Production Leaders or strategic programmes in the business.

With this attractive opportunity, you will get the chance to:

• Lead and coach a team of Production Leaders, inspiring performance across core manufacturing KPIs.
• Drive a Zero Harm culture, ensuring compliance to all health, safety and wellbeing plans.
• Champion product safety, regulatory standards, and a commitment to Zero Defects.
• Manage people budgets and cell cost centres, targeting productivity and cost efficiency.

Who We’re Looking For:

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

• Demonstrate cross-functional leadership in diverse manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Have experience delivering operational excellence in varying conditions, across disciplines.
• Show proficiency with Lean or Six Sigma practices.
• Understand product integrity and quality systems deeply.
• Have attended higher education or leadership development programmes.

What you’ll get:

Great salary and benefits

On top of your salary and equivalent of 33 days’ holiday a year, you’ll get generous pension contributions (up to 12%), access to employee support assistance and employee discounts, free parking, and excellent on-site facilities. Plus, much more.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe diverse perspectives fuel innovation. Through our culture of care and belonging, we empower every team member to thrive. Learn more about our global inclusion strategy: Our people | Rolls-Royce