Manufacturing Services Manager

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Manufacturing Services Manager

Midlands

Full Time / Days

Domestic Travel Required

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the central Manufacturing Services team in Civil Aerospace Manufacturing Operations.

The primary purpose of Manufacturing Services is to maintain safe, capable, compliant and available assets to minimise customer disruption and maintain a safe workplace, therefore playing a critical role to the success of the organisation.

Within the central team our role is to enable functional capability to deliver operational excellence through the lens of people and organisation, business processes and tools, systems, service contract delivery, and improvements.

As a Manufacturing Services Manager within the central team you will:

• Collaborate across business and functional boundaries at all levels of the organisation to deliver objectives.
• Have responsibility for developing and delivering functional strategies.
• Identify and build upon current best practice to design, develop and deploy processes and standards.
• Promote and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

General accountabilities include:

• Implement the Company Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) policy in all aspects of Manufacturing Services, understand and deploy legislative requirements and HSE Management and Control Standards through effective communication, processes and actions that support safe and compliant workplaces and equipment.
• Use deep knowledge and understanding of external commercial, compliance and regulatory factors, in the context of maintenance and inspection, to develop best practices and improve processes and/or services.
• Develop specialised depth and/or breadth of expertise in Manufacturing Service technical competences and service lines, with particular focus on areas of defined responsibility to provide support to the business teams.
• Understand the IT systems we use to drive our management and leadership activity. Competent in the use of tools to manage Manufacturing Services performance. Can communicate using digital tools, with the ability to communicate a wider digital strategy.
• Actively seek out industry best practice in the use of innovation and technology to support development of future Manufacturing Services strategies.
• Solve complex problems and influence the way others solve problems in their specialism; use advanced analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions.
• Communicate difficult concepts and influences others including internal and external stakeholders and customers/suppliers to achieve required outcomes.
• Identifies, develops and shares best practice across organisational boundaries to support continued improvement of functional capability to achieve operational excellence.
• Collaborate effectively with others, using influencing skills and networking ability to achieve objectives and gain buy-in from wider business to implement and sustain new standards, processes and ways of working.
• Provide technical coaching, leadership and direction to teams within Manufacturing Services.
• Support procurement and financial processes associated with areas of responsibility. This will include representing Manufacturing Services in commercial activity and managing relationships with suppliers and service providers.
• Implement and lead global Communities of Practice to support best practice sharing and continuous improvement.
• Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives within and outside their own team; work is guided by the policies…