Job Description VP Manufacturing - Inchinnan Full time Inchinnan What you will be doing You will lead, inspire and coach a broader team of functional leaders for a number of manufacturing plants or regional business. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards. You will be the first point of escalation for other Manufacturing Managers and will have full accountability for ensuring that agreed current and future customer quality, cost, delivery and responsiveness requirements are met in their region. They will have authority to allocate resources across the plants in their region, with allocation of functional resource being agreed as required. They will be the single point of contact for the EVP with respect to the plants within their region. The Manufacturing Executive will be involved in a broader role in looking at the long term strategy for their site, acting as an ambassador for RR in the local community. They will also be a key interface with Trade Union on site/in region/across sites and in managing employee relations. Responsibilities HSE - Accountable for defining & implementing the Zero Harm plan for the plant. Ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standard PRODUCT SAFETY - 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 QUALITY - Design, influence and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects for the plant. Ensure cross-functional teams integrate to reduce Cost of Non Quality. Understands the technical and legislative elements associated with their area of responsibility and ensures compliance COST - Creates and agrees the budget; Implements robust monitoring and controlling of the areas financials to ensure the budget is delivered DELIVERY - Leads the planning and balancing of load and capacity to meet customer demands and achieve business strategy PEOPLE - 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 LEAN - 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 LEAD - 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 BUSINESS - Ensure that robust business continuity plans are in place for all high risk/SPOF manufacturing resources. Optimises the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand. Where applicable, accountability for site wide activities (e.g. Group property, purchasing, community related activities, etc.) DIGITAL MANUFACTURING - 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 SCU & supply chain strategy aligns to RR digital manufacturing standards and strategy. Communicate to the leadership team using digital tools, and able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING - Facilitates the development and operation of the manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement) to deliver conforming product Why Rolls-Royce? Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week. Who we’re looking for Someone who has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working Held significant manufacturing roles - understanding/knowledge of multiple operational disciplines demonstrating breadth of experience - appreciation of product integrity Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions; utilising cross-functional teams Has experience of deploying continuous improvement methodologies such as lean and six sigma (Green Belt accreditation) Management experience in a high technology engineering industry is ideal, but not essential Attended higher education and leadership development programmes - committed to continuing professional development Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business. Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role. 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. Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy Grade: Management Level A For further information, please contact: Alison Connaughton Job Category Manufacturing Posting Date 27 Mar 2026; 00:03 Posting End Date 03 Apr 2026