Design Safety Manager

Job Description

Design Safety Manager

Full Time Bristol

Management Level C

We’re a market leader in aero engines for military transport and patrol aircraft, and also has significant scale in naval, and strong positions in combat and helicopter applications.​  We are pioneering more advanced and innovative power system to ensure future combat air systems remain at the forefront of mission capability throughout their service.

Design Safety engineers influence design through understanding how failures will affect system operation, and analyse the resulting design, providing feedback on any impact this will have to the safety or reliability of the system and ensuring that meet the appropriate standards.  We are looking for a Design Safety Manager to supervise the Bristol team.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and remarkable 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

The Design Safety Manager will manage the team of Design Safety Engineers supporting New Product Introduction within the Defence UK division.  This includes:

• To lead and develop the members of their team within and beyond their respective disciplines, including individual and professional development, training, performance and reward management, HSE and security.
• To ensure staff are suitably qualified and experienced and that the required skills are sustainable for the future through: multi-skilling, staff rotation, and the competency framework tools and professional networks and standards.
• To provide technical leadership to the Engineering resource group and ensure compliance to process throughout the life cycle activity
• To ensure that world class capability is effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements and contribute to the Design Safety Strategy.
• To create and maintain resource plans to meet the overall delivery commitments.
• To ensure that sufficient resource is available, through subcontract and recruitment (whilst adhering to Company manpower policy) to meet current and future business’ needs and budgets.
• To ensure effective knowledge management through the use of knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the resource group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond
• To lead and drive efficiency through process review, teamwork and implementing continuous improvement and operational best practice within the field of work.

Key Experiences and any Qualifications

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.

In addition, the following role specific skills are preferred:

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent
• Knowledge / experience of Safety & Reliability engineering techniques.
• Demonstrates sound engineering judgement and knowledge of the Sector
• Demonstrates effective leadership & engineering skills
• Capable of building high performing teams and effecting a positive shift in attitudes and behaviours
• Understanding of Company Quality policies and processes deployed within the resource group
• Experienced in applying process improvement techniques and driving business improvements

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse team 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 Defence 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.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. 

The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. 

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.  

If you’re a member of the Rolls-Royce UK Pension Fund (Defined Benefit/Final Salary Scheme), then changing jobs could affect your future pension benefits. To find out more, please click: www.rolls-roycepensions.com. Further detail on the Standard All-Inclusive Rate (AIR) Pensions splits can be found in Appendix 1: The Pension Protection Arrangements Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) – the MOU explains the arrangements when employees transfer to a different pay structure or to a new job in the same structure when the individual has a different AIR split to the standard for that area.

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 careers.rolls-royce.com

Grade:  Management level C

For further information please contact:  Lizzie Moore - [email protected]

Job Category

Engineering for Services

Posting Date

22 Apr 2025; 00:04Posting End Date05 May 2025