Programme Lead – Capital Works

Project Lead

Full time

Bristol

Staff Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Programme Lead to join our Defence Aerospace business in Bristol. In this role, you will report directly to the Programme Manager within the Infrastructure team (Capital Works), which operates within the GCAP Programme (ELC), and will support the delivery of our infrastructure projects, including business management, budget control, Risk and integrated master schedule. You will be delivering on the requirements against UK MoD programmes of work.

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.

As a Programme Lead, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Programme Manager with the coordination of engineering projects. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams and key business stakeholders to drive the successful achievement of programme milestones, directly contributing to the delivery of our Defence strategy. Your responsibilities will encompass project planning, risk management, and budget oversight for your programme areas, as well as leading integrated teams to ensure the effective delivery of your assigned projects.

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.

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Deliver a key work package for new infrastructure with advanced capabilities for our MoD Customer
• Lead on the establishment of the required control accounts needed to manage the Capital Works budgets, including the required SAP management
• Flow down the relevant budgets and Coupa orders for the internal and external supply chain teams
• Prepare the required internal and external cost reporting deliverables, including actuals versus budget and deltas from baseline
• Develop and report associated financial and schedule metrics
• Integrate Package Order changes into the Control Accounts and report deliverables
• Work with the Project delivery leads, prepare and report the infrastructure integrated master schedule, highlighting critical path and key dependencies.
• Lead the risk identification and risk management process for the Capital Works contract.
• Provide the risk information required to support Package Order applications and on-going review.
• Provide the required information for the Capital Works Operational Reviews and internal reporting requirements.
• Support change management activities.

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:

• Have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and have the ability to easily build rapport within all levels of the organisation since networking across business groups and developing key relationships is critical to this role
• Demonstrate a passion and desire to grow within project management in the Defence industry, with project management experience/qualifications highly desirable
• Demonstrate…