Job Description

Manufacturing Manager

Full Time

Barnoldswick

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a for an experienced Manufacturing Manager in Barnoldswick.

You will be part of our Senior Leadership team within Rolls-Royce Civil Operations and you lead, inspire and coach a broader team of functional leaders within the manufacturing plant and be accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HS&E, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

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

What you will be doing:

In this role you will be a ccountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant and ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standards. As well as being responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan and actively involving all the plant in wellbeing activities , in addition you will:

Be accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organisation.
Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects for the plant. Ensure cross-functional teams integrate to reduce risk and drive right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
Develop agreed operational and financial budgets for the facility and monitor and control the performance to ensure the budget is met.
Develop and execute an effective load and capacity planning regime, balancing near and long term planning horizons in line with strategy. Manage plant bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the plant. Drive plant inventory targets and eliminate slow moving WIP.
Ensure that plant leadership cross functional team members receive training, coaching and development in order to carry out their roles effectively. Ensure that robust people plans (succession, recruitment pipeline) are in place for key roles in the business. Drive plant flexibility by optimising training plans across the plant.
Ensure that relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives. Coach the cross functional team to continuously improve. Ensures the seeking and sharing of best practice internally and externally.
Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours. Motivate, delegate and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
Ensure that potential threats to the objectives of the plant are regularly and clearly identified, assessed and managed to acceptable levels, and that effective controls are maintained to keep threats at those residual levels. Ensure that robust Business Continuity Plans are in place for all key resources (including e.g. building & infrastructure, equipment, input materials, IT, people) and are refreshed and tested regularly.
Optimises the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand.
Understand and lead the deployment and use of digital systems and processes to improve product cost, quality and performance. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage area and people performance and leads compliance to digital standards and processes. Ensures business strategy aligns to RR digital manufacturing standards and strategy. Communicate to the plant leadership team using digital tools, and able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.
Facilitate the development and operation of the manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement) within the facility.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

Has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
Held significant manufacturing roles across a range of relevant functional areas, demonstrating breadth of experience and of implementing change at pace.
Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilising cross-functional teams.
Leadership of major transformation projects and an exponent of continuous improvement methodologies such as six sigma and lean (Black Belt accreditation and/or Lean Coach desirable but not essential).
Ideally, but not essential, broad management experience in a high technology engineering industry.
Attended higher education and leadership development programmes for senior or high potential leaders.

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 Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Manufacturing