Depot Manager jobs in United Kingdom

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.

Lead, inspire, and drive excellence. Join us as a Production Leader at the state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce Bristol Turbine Facility. Taking charge of a dynamic team within defined manufacturing cell, you’ll optimise production performance and help us achieve Zero Harm and Zero Defects while delivering world-class products to our customers.

• Leading a culture of Zero Harm, ensuring safety, environmental, and wellbeing standards are met.
• Driving quality and efficiency, working towards Zero Defects and compliance with engineering and safety standards.
• Managing team performance and, optimising productivity, headcount, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure on-time delivery, using capacity planning and workflow management to meet customer commitments.
• Developing and empower the team, fostering continuous improvement, lean leadership, and digital manufacturing adoption.

• You have a safety-first mindset, with knowledge of health and safety standards and product integrity.
• With broad experience across disciplines, you’ll have a company-wide outlook and are comfortable dealing with different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• You can demonstrate a proven track record of improving operational performance and leading cross-functional teams.
• You’ll have continuous improvement expertise, ideally with Lean/Six Sigma experience (Green Belt preferred).

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

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at careers.rolls-royce.com

Closing Date: 2nd January 2026

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category Manufacturing Posting Date 09 Dec 2025; 00:12 Posting End Date 02 Jan 2026