Senior Quality Leader, Aftermarket & HSE

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Annual Leave

Retirement Savings through Rolls-Royce

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Employee Share schemes

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Senior Quality Manager for Aftermarket to lead quality and HSE across Derby, with secondary sites in Bristol or Solihull. The role is part of the Senior Leadership Team, aligning with the SVP Quality, HS&E within Aftermarket Operations.

You will drive governance, supplier maturity, and process improvement to ensure compliance and customer satisfaction, with a strong focus on Right First Time and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified with relevant experience in either Quality, MRO or Aerospace.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of Six Sigma, Lean, 8D or similar problem-solving methods.
• Ability to influence strategy in a challenging operations environment.
• Understanding of Human factors and Human Performance.
• Experience leading teams and building relationships at different levels.
• Understanding of safety culture and its promotion.
• Broad knowledge of Rolls-Royce product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop people capability and culture within the reporting team to ensure process compliance.
• Lead governance systems including metrics and KPIs to maximise efficiency and meet requirements.
• Ensure compliance strategies are understood and deployed into the Operating System and suppliers.
• Provide proactive assurance that regulatory, business and customer requirements are met through an assurance strategy.
• Drive changes to the OS, Management System and SABRe/GS3001 to mitigate risks and reduce cost/waste.
• Enable Right First Time through defect prevention methodologies.
• Lead Health, Safety and Environment strategy and governance.
• Provide quality leadership to drive supplier maturity and performance.
• Transfer mindset to enact cultural change in Quality and HSE as a business partner.

Skills

Quality leadership

Supplier quality management

Problem solving

Change management

Leadership

Education

Quality/MRO/Aer aerospace qualification

Tools

AS9100/ISO9001 knowledge

Job description

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Senior Quality Manager for Aftermarket to lead quality and HSE across Derby, with secondary sites in Bristol or Solihull. The role is part of the Senior Leadership Team, aligning with the SVP Quality, HS&E within Aftermarket Operations.

You will drive governance, supplier maturity, and process improvement to ensure compliance and customer satisfaction, with a strong focus on Right First Time and risk mitigation.