Chief of Service Analysis & Life Cycle Engineering – Derby
Full time – Hybrid.
About the Service Analysis & Life Cycle Analysis (SA & LCA) Department
The SA & LCA department is committed to ensuring operational excellence, product reliability, and cost‑effective lifecycle management. Accountability spans across safety, reliability, fleet performance and cost optimization, ensuring that all products and services meet the highest standards of safety, quality, airworthiness (Part 21 & Part 145) and performance throughout their lifecycle.
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.
What We Offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, including bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Hybrid working allows you to balance your time between the office, home or another remote location. You are expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on an average of three days per week.
What You Will Be Doing
You will lead, develop and engage the assigned engineering personnel to meet current and future business requirements; deploy staff to approved business activities; and own and support the definition of the relevant section of the engineering strategy.
Responsibilities
* Provide business‑level capability and strategy aligning the businesses.
* Provide capability leadership to the engineering resource group and ensure robust deployment and maintenance of capability throughout its life‑cycle.
* Leverage data for decision‑making, apply advanced analytical methods and lead cross‑functional collaboration to ensure the highest standards of safety, reliability and customer satisfaction.
* Identify, lead and integrate digital and AI solutions to enhance business outcomes.
* Create and maintain strategic and/or tactical resource plans in line with the Do/Buy strategy to meet overall delivery commitments.
* Ensure sufficient resource is available to meet current and future business needs and budgets; ensure integration with partners and other resource groups on people and resource issues.
* Own the overall capability strategy and associated roadmap, and ensure resources necessary to deliver the roadmap.
* Help define, develop and maintain the capabilities taxonomy with the Engineering for Services Group Capability to ensure sufficient specialist and SMEs capability exists to support the business and strategic workforce plan.
* Ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that required skills are sustainable for the future through multi‑skilling, staff rotation, competency framework tools, training and professional networks and standards.
* Ensure effective knowledge management in line with company KiD policy through knowledge capture, lessons learned, and best practice guides for the resource group and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond.
* Lead and drive efficiency and quality through implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work.
* Own the relationship between engineering, external customers, partners, legal and regulatory authorities and the supply chain; ensure it is managed and integrated on behalf of the capability group.
* Apply Health, Safety and Environment policy and product safety process, commitment to continuous improvement and safety assurance.
* Ensure compliance to all HS&E safety requirements for delivered engineering capability.
Qualifications
* Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
* Sound engineering judgment and knowledge of the business customers and programmes.
* Effective leadership and engineering skills; capable of building high‑performing teams and affecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviours.
* Knowledge of company quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group.
* Experience in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements.
We are an equal opportunities employer
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 crucial to innovation and problem solving and that a more diverse perspective makes us more successful. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone the opportunity to realise their full potential.
You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls‑Royce.
Job Category: Engineering for Services.
Posting Date: 24 Nov 2025; 00:11.
Posting End Date: 06 Dec 2025.
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