Job Description

Head of Delivery – EC&I – Submarines

Full time, hybrid, 3 days a week in the office

Derby

Our nuclear business is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority, managing all aspects of plant design, safety, manufacture, performance, and through-life support.

For over 50 years, Rolls-Royce has been successfully designing and maintaining the control and instrumentation systems for the nuclear reactors that power the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. We currently have multiple generations of reactor control and instrumentation in service and are delivering the next generation of systems to be used in the Dreadnought class of submarines and starting the development of the next class.

To sustain our capability and products for the next 50 years, we are engaged in an active programme of research and development into control system technologies of the future.

A role within Submarines will offer you the opportunity to work across all phases of the product life cycle, solving technical challenges across a wide range of digital, software, programmable hardware and electronics technologies, systems, and applications. We want you to maximise your potential and will support your technical development through coaching, experience, and training. This will include professional mentoring to continue your professional development.

You will be encouraged to bring in fresh ideas and generate creative ways of working to make a stepped improvement in our effectiveness, allowing you to make an impact in delivering programmes that are strategically important to the nation.

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.

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.

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, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

Identify internal and / or external customer product and / or service needs, and develop a strategy to meet those needs

Successful delivery to cost, quality, time and scope for defined range of control account(s)

Executes the developed strategy on behalf of the Head of Programme to meet identified and anticipated customer requirements

Informing and leading the business to make the right priority decisions for the best programme outcomes

Provide credible forecasts of delivery performance to all stakeholders

Lead CAM reviews to provide quality information to programme reviews, contract packs and customer reports

Ensure that the relationships across functional workstreams and organisational boundaries are in place and support the CAMs to secure the required resource and dependencies

Ensure that programme demands flowed into the business unit are coordinated through the CAM teams and have followed the correct commit/accept processes

Provide strategic leadership, direction and knowledge and able to work through ambiguity to focus the teams on the right priorities

Form part of the Senior Leadership team.

Ensure that best practices are developed or deployed across the programme and key interface business units.

Lead integration of major work packages to deliver collective control account objectives

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.

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.

Qualified to degree level or equivalent industry experienceMember of a professional body Association of Project Management MAPM / FAPM and obtained Chartered Qualification ChPPSignificant experience in the management of programmes / projects of increasing complexityExperienced in all stages of a programme lifecycle and has been responsible for the delivery of one or more of those stagesExperience of or detailed exposure to other professional functions (i.e. Commercial, Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Services)Demonstrable experience of leading large, multi-faceted teams towards effective delivery of complex business requirementGood interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex information with individuals at all levels within the organisationExperience of identifying strategic direction.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance.  Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.  Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

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

Project Management

Posting Date

10 Feb 2026; 00:02

Posting End Date

20 Feb 2026