Job Description

Manufacturing Manager - Test & CDC

Derby (on site)

Full Time

Why join Rolls-Royce ?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Manager to join the Team in Derby, managing the Test and Customer Delivery Centre (CDC) value stream. This is a Senior Leadership and Delivery Role reporting to the VP Operations.

As the Manufacturing Manager - Test & CDC, you will lead, inspire and coach a broader team of functional leaders within PTF and be accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards. The Test and CDC role is the final step of our civil large engine supply chain and is a truly exciting opportunity to work with our finished product in a customer critical role.

What you will be doing:

As Manufacturing Manager - Test & CDC, key accountabilities will include:

HSE - Accountable for achieving the Zero Harm plan for the plant. Ensuring full compliance to health, safety and environmental standards. Responsible for the delivery of the HSE strategic plan. Actively involves all the plant in well-being activities.
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 - Drive and deploy the strategic plan for Zero Defects for the plant. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
COST - Develop agreed operational and financial budgets for the facility and monitor and control the performance to ensure the budget is met.
DELIVERY - 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.
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 plan (succession, recruitment pipeline) are in place for key roles in the business. Drive plant flexibility by optimising training plans across the plant.
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.
LEAD - Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours.
RISK & BUSINESS CONTINUITY - 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 and are refreshed and tested regularly.
MANUFACTURING SERVICES - Optimises the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand.
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 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.
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING - Facilitate the development and operation of the manufacturing engineering processes (Capability Acquisition, Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement) within the facility.

Preferred requirements:

Has Companywide 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

What we offer:

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

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.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing date: 26th February 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