Chief of Component Engineering

Job Title: Chief of Component Engineering

Working Pattern: Full Time, Hybrid

Working location: Bristol

Grade: Level C

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chief of Component Engineering to join our Bristol team, supporting Mature programmes. This is a key role where you’ll act as the prime engineering and programme interface on behalf of Component Design, working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to deliver safe, compliant, and high-quality solutions across the component lifecycle.

You will own and deliver validated Technical Component Designs across the whole Gas Turbine and Naval Packages to satisfy requirements within Systems and Sub-systems.

You’ll provide technical and programme leadership to your work package team, ensuring robust delivery to plan, effective risk management, and strong governance throughout. This role offers a strong mix of engineering leadership, strategic influence, and stakeholder management, making it ideal for someone looking to deepen their impact within a high-performing engineering organisation.

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.

This role sits within our Bristol site, supporting component engineering leadership across Mature programmes and key delivery activities.

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.

You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering team where your insight and expertise will be valued. You’ll have opportunities to shape delivery strategy, influence technical decisions, interface with the Defence Delivery Task Force, and progress your career with training and development support in one of the UK’s most respected engineering businesses.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, 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.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Act as the prime Engineering and Programme interface on behalf of Component Design
  Own and deliver validated Technical Component Designs across the whole Gas Turbine and Naval Packages to satisfy requirements within Systems and Sub-systems
  Manage the safety aspect of any solution, ensuring HS&E policy is applied with a commitment to continuous improvement

• Be the prime interface with commodity groups and external supply chain for component design, manufacturing and sub-system integration

• Provide programme and technical leadership to the Work Package team, complying with Engineering Function policies throughout the work package lifecycle

• Maintain a programme to ensure all activities are fully compliant with the RRMS

• Develop and communicate the plan and budget to deliver the work on time, managing costs and resources to ensure delivery of the plan

• Implement effective Risk Management and Project Gated Review processes for the package

• Interface with the Defence Delivery Task Force to support delivery priorities and escalation routes

• Ensure appropriate resources are deployed to meet programme commitments

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:

• Be qualified to at least degree level

• Have domain knowledge commensurate with the focus and size of the work package, ideally within component engineering in an aerospace, defence, manufacturing, or similarly regulated environment

• Demonstrate understanding of Product Change Control including PCB, Technical Review (DTA), APQP, and Product Introduction Lifecycle Management

• Have project management experience in planning, controlling budgets, and driving to schedules

• Bring engineering and technical competence sufficient to enable decision making commensurate with the size and complexity of the package

• Have experience applying a systems approach or equivalent (e.g., Robust Design lead, Black Belt, etc.) and detail component design experience

• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage, influence, and align stakeholders across engineering, commodity groups, and the external supply chain

• Have experience leading, developing, or coaching an engineering team to deliver through others

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

For more information contact: Kris Goode