## **Supply Chain Quality Manager**## Location: Hybrid, based from Derby, Manchester or Warrington Salary: £63,750 – £78,750 dependent on experience + 12.5% bonus + £2,200 flexible allowance## Our mission is to deliver clean, affordable energy for all. Rolls‐Royce SMR provides a British solution to a global energy challenge, leading the way in Small Modular Reactor technology and shaping the UK’s premier green export opportunity.## Our Supply Chain Quality function is fundamental to enabling a capable, compliant and high‐performing supply base that can safely and predictably support our first SMR delivery and future fleet deployment. Playing a critical assurance and governance role, Supply Chain Quality ensures that suppliers are fully approved, controlled, and aligned to stringent nuclear, regulatory and Rolls‐Royce SMR quality expectations.## To strengthen this, we’re looking for a Supply Chain Quality Manager to lead supplier approval, change governance, assurance activity and ongoing quality control across our expanding global supply chain. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Quality & Development, you’ll provide leadership, oversight and direction to our Supplier Quality Professionals — ensuring that supplier assurance, compliance and quality governance is executed to the highest standard.## ## **What you’ll be doing*** ## Lead supplier onboarding, qualification and approval, ensuring suppliers meet all required quality, regulatory and Supplier Management System Requirements (SMSR) before entering the supply chain.* ## Ensure robust assurance, auditability, traceability and evidence quality underpin all supplier approvals and ongoing controls.* ## Manage and allocate Supplier Quality Professionals to supplier assessments, surveillance activity and issue closure.* ## Ensure non‐conforming products or services do not enter the business through strong assurance, governance and preventative controls.* ## Govern supplier change control (product, process, tooling, location, sub‐tier), ensuring Zero Uncontrolled Change across all supplier activity.* ## Lead resolution of supplier non‐conformances, concessions and escapes, ensuring effective containment, root‐cause analysis and corrective/preventative actions.* ## Identify, assess and escalate supplier quality risks, maintaining predictable and stable external quality performance.* ## Act as escalation point for suppliers and internal teams on assurance, onboarding, change control and governance matters.* ## Build strong, trust‐based supplier relationships to support transparent conversations on quality, risk and compliance.* ## Coordinate cross‐functional collaboration with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supplier Development to address supplier risks and performance gaps.* ## Maintain high standards of evidence control, documentation, reporting discipline and adherence to wider quality and assurance frameworks.* ## Feed lessons learned and improvement opportunities into central governance to drive continuous improvement.* ## Lead, support and develop Supplier Quality Professionals, ensuring consistent assessment quality and strong one‐team behaviours.* ## Champion a strong nuclear safety culture, operational discipline, integrity and high‐quality decision making.## ## **What you’ll bring*** ## Significant experience in Quality, Supplier Quality or Assurance within a complex, regulated or industrial environment (e.g. nuclear, aerospace, defence, energy).* ## Experience conducting structured supplier assessments, audits, issue investigations or assurance reviews.* ## Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems and auditing (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 19443, AS9100).* ## Experience leading root‐cause analysis, corrective/preventative actions and structured problem‐solving (e.g. DMAIC, A3, 8D).* ## Ability to interpret technical, regulatory and quality information to make clear, evidence‐based decisions.* ## Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with suppliers and internal functions alike.* ## Experience working within strong governance, evidence‐based and compliance‐led environments.* ## Degree (or equivalent experience) in Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline.* ## Training in Lean, CI, auditing, risk management or operational assurance frameworks.* ## Beneficial: Six Sigma Black Belt/Lean Practitioner, APQP/PPAP/FAIR, IRCA Lead Auditor, H&S training, and international or multi‐region supply chain experience.## ## **Location & Ways of Working**## This role can be based from our Derby, Manchester or Warrington office. We operate a hybrid working model with regular weekly office attendance expected. Some travel may be required based on supplier or programme needs.## ## Salary: £63,750 – £78,750 depending on experience Bonus: 12.5% performance‐related bonus Allowance: £2,200 flexible benefits allowance## You’ll also receive:* ## 12% employer pension (6% employee)* ## 28 days annual leave + public holidays (option to buy/sell up to 4 days)* ## Private Medical Insurance (BUPA)* ## Life Assurance – 6× pensionable pay* ## £250 home office setup payment## ## You’ll join a forward‐thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness and innovation, offering:* ## A flexible, inclusive and supportive working environment* ## Opportunities for development and career growth in a scaling business* ## A culture built on diversity, collaboration and continuous learning## You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:• A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment. • Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business. • A culture that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning.We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch – we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.**Our Application Process**Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance • Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check • Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check## **#LI-LK1 #LI-Hybrid****We are Rolls-Royce SMR**A career with Rolls-Royce SMR offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an exciting organisation delivering a transformational mission. Rolls-Royce SMR is a radically different approach to proven nuclear technology. Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will generate 470MW of low-carbon energy - equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes for over 60 years. With its Rolls-Royce SMRs will play a vital role in supporting renewable energy by helping to overcome intermittency and ensure a stable, sustainable energy future. We’re proud to be one of the few employers that can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation. Our people are here because of what makes them exceptional - and our role is to help them make the most meaningful contribution of their careers, doing work they love. We offer opportunities that go beyond traditional career paths. At Rolls-Royce SMR you can develop your career by exploring roles and challenges that
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