Integrated Project Team Lead - Submarines

Job Description

Integrated Project Team Lead

Full time 

Derby

 

Why Rolls-Royce?

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Integrated Project Team Lead to join Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby.
 

Submarines business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You can find out more about the amazing projects that we are working on here:- https://youtu.be/x19YSPecrf8

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

 

The EC&I Control Account Team within the Rolls-Royce’s Submarines business is looking to recruit an IPTL to support and lead a multi-displined team tasked with driving critical new technical development programmes. The role will be responsible for leading a range of projects, demonstrating programme/project management skills such as planning, budgetary control, risk management and team leadership. 

We offer excellent development, 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:

• Generate the plan of work with input from the IPT by creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS) and Responsibility Accountability matrix (RAM) for the IPT and deploy to Project Management Plan (PMP) to ensure successful delivery and verification of all the IPT requirement
• Understand the critical path; Drive task completion, communicate process and escalate issues
• Deploy, direct and coordinate resource to complete the planned and agreed scope of work, Capture, understand, agree, document and flow down requirements.
• Accountable for the successful delivery to Cost, quality and delivery for a defined package of work
• Implement effective risk and opportunity management within the IPT by contributing and managing the Project Risk Register through ARM
• Provide resource demand to the resource managers and agreement gained through a CAM
• Manage the allocated budget for the IPT and act as CAM for the IPT, feeding back up to the CAM
• Provide Programme and Technical leadership and support to the cross functional IPT delivering the allocated work scope
• Establish a project baseline for the IPT work scope and manage change to the baseline

Who we’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Degree in a relevant engineering or business discipline or equivalent level of continuous professional development and experience (ideally in the defence engineering environment).
• Project Management experience, showing an understanding of the project lifecycle, risk management, cost management, planning and programming and ability to successfully lead and motivate a team and other stakeholder.
• Strong planning and organising skills to manage short, medium- and long-term activities and deliverables.
• An experienced communicator with the ability to influence and develop strong relationships within cross functional team working, establishing objectives and specific outcomes
• Knowledge of Electrical commodities and design/make processes is preferred.
• Previous experience of coordinating teams of engineers and design processes is preferred. With a proven track record in project delivery and the ability to operate in a complex environment within the submarine’s enterprise.

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

 

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

 

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

NGS 8-10

Job Category

Project Management

Posting Date

10 Nov 2025; 00:11

Posting End Date

23 Nov 2025