Design Safety Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Design Safety Manager

Full time

Bristol

An opportunity has arisen for a Design Safety Manager to join Rolls Royce Bristol.

We're a market leader in aero engines for military transport and patrol aircraft, and also have significant scale in naval, and strong positions in combat and helicopter applications. We are pioneering more advanced and innovative power systems to ensure future combat air systems remain at the forefront of mission capability throughout their service.

Design Safety engineers influence design through understanding how failures will affect system operation, and analyze the resulting design, providing feedback on any impact this will have on the safety or reliability of the system and ensuring that it meets the appropriate standards. We are looking for a Design Safety Manager to supervise the Bristol team.

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. 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:

• Lead and develop the members of the team within and beyond their respective disciplines, including individual and professional development, training, performance and reward management, HSE, and security.
• Ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that the required skills are sustainable for the future through: multi-skilling, staff rotation, and the competency framework tools and professional networks and standards.
• Provide technical leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensure compliance to process throughout the lifecycle activity.
• Ensure that world-class capability is effectively utilized to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements and contribute to the Design Safety Strategy.
• Create and maintain resource plans to meet the overall delivery commitments.
• Ensure that sufficient resource is available, through subcontract and recruitment (whilst adhering to Company manpower policy) to meet current and future business needs and budgets.
• Ensure effective knowledge management through the use of knowledge capture, lessons learned, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond.
• Lead and drive efficiency through process review, teamwork, and implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work.

Who we're looking for

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
• Knowledge/experience of Safety & Reliability engineering techniques.
• Demonstrates sound engineering judgment and knowledge of the Sector.
• Demonstrates effective leadership & engineering skills.
• Capable of building high performing teams and effecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviors.
• Understanding of Company Quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group.
• Experienced in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements.

*To work for Rolls-Royce you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don't currently have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality.*

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 realize their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

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

Job Category: Engineering for Services

Posting Date: 22 Apr 2025; 00:04

Posting End Date: 05 May 2025