Service Maturity & Integrated Product Support - Technical Specialist - Submarines

Rolls-royce; Sandiacre; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Technical Specialist to influence cross-business teams and ensure service objectives are met. This role requires expertise in Service Maturity and Integrated Product Support for complex engineering products. Candidates should possess strong stakeholder management abilities and hold a BEng degree. Exceptional benefits and a collaborative working environment are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in complex engineering products with IPS principles.
• Strong knowledge of IPS methods and industry standards.
• Ability to lead projects and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and training to peers and junior professionals.
• Lead capability projects, capturing requirements and obtaining approvals.
• Resolve technical, compliance, and business problems.

Skills

Service Maturity & Integrated Product Support (IPS)

Stakeholder management

Project Leadership

Training and mentoring

Education

BEng degree or other national equivalent

Job description

As the Technical Specialist, you will proactively drive and influence teams across the business to avoid unexpected service cost and disruption by ensuring products and services are mature at entry into service and achieve the service business objectives (e.g. Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (AR&M), Time on Platform, Maintenance Cost, Maintenance Support Strategy). You will provide technical expertise in 'design for support' using supportability and Integrated Product Support (IPS) principles (e.g. AR&M, Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) etc.) and integrate across the whole business. You will also provide expertise in proactive reliability and technical surveillance to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectation. We're a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. Join us and we'll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career. You will be supporting the development and execution of the EfS strategy, collaborating with both internal and external networks.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical direction, supporting and delivering training to peers and more junior professionals, and technical leadership to teams and projects (including the Integrated Product Support team).
• Leading the definition of capability projects including capturing requirements, creating proposals, achieving stakeholder approval, acquiring funding and aligning partner support.
• Supporting the development of the Integrated Product Support team and application of new capabilities; leading capability development projects within the wider business.
• Leading the resolution of new and emerging technical, compliance and business problems using analytical processes and professional judgement.
• Ensuring appropriate policies, standards and best practices are defined, shared and adopted.
• At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Qualifications

• Strong experience of Service Maturity & Integrated Product Support (IPS) in complex engineering products.
• Detailed knowledge of the IPS principles, methods and industry standards.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities.
• Project Leadership and experience of training and mentoring others.
• Professionally qualified Engineer (UK minimum BEng degree or other national equivalent).

Security & Eligibility

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don't currently already 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. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Benefits

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

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