Project Delivery Professional - Submarines

Job Description

Project Delivery Professional - Reactor Engineering-Submarines
Full time
Derby

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Delivery Professional within Future Programmes, in the Reactor Engineering Control Account Management (CAM) team. This role involves working across a range of submarine programmes, including SSN AUKUS, Dreadnought, and Research and Technology (R&T).

Why Rolls-Royce?

This is a great opportunity for innovative, flexible, self-motivated project people at any stage of their project management careers to work on a number of different programmes, enabling delivery through effective integrated working and project management.  This will include taking a pragmatic and collaborative approach to project management, delivery, risk, cost, budgeting and dependency management, whilst driving delivery of the specific work packages and working with the wider programme teams and functions.

Building a better World with Nuclear:

We are uniquely placed to help build a better world with nuclear using world-leading technologies for power and propulsion solutions.  What we do really matters.

It’s not every day that you can say that the work you do helps keep the UK safe, but that is just one of the unique benefits of securing a role within Rolls-Royce Submarines. We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

In addition, our hotbed of innovation and problem-solving solutions mean our diverse and exciting range of growth opportunities is on the increase.  These range from expanding our current product and service offerings through to entering new markets, including space exploration, and sustaining the environment through the development of clean energy solutions, such as the deployment of micro reactors, synthetic fuel production and the power of hydrogen.

Watch our Submarine Story and visit our Defence Website to learn more about our ambitious world-leading successes and purpose.

What we offer:

We believe in bringing pride, accomplishment and prosperity to our people and the communities we work in by offering 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 and where hybrid working is possible, we support ways in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. 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:

You’ll be focused on collaborative working within a dynamic team, ensuring the effective deployment of programme management. You will be working alongside technical teams to define work scope, create plans of work and execute, managing risk and opportunities and ensuring a cross functional team deliver against the requirements set by the programme using the business processes available:

- Enable delivery through effective integrated working and project management.

- Interfacing across all work scope stakeholders, using Integrated Product and Production Readiness (IPPR) to drive the work in the programme.

- Responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of project / critical component delivery schedules in P6 Primavera planning software.

- Deliver to cost, specification and time for defined packages of work.

- Leading or supporting weekly/monthly planning updates and Integrated Project Team (IPT) meetings - responsible for objective assessment of project status/performance updates including progress, forecast, recovery actions.

- Critical path and schedule variance analysis for project performance measurement.

- Key contributor to various performance reviews with an understanding of key performance metrics and a proactive approach to recovery planning.

- Provide input to financial management, including monthly monitoring, quarterly forecasts, budgets and estimates to complete.

- Maintain, develop & communicate the plan in the designated planning tool (Primavera P6) and use this to drive delivery and reporting.

- Data extraction from corporate and local toolsets, and analysis of this data to provide high-quality project information to enable decision making and direction-setting.

Who we are 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.

- A degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Economics or STEM-related subject.

- A project management professional qualification or professional standard (ChPP, MAMP, APM PMQ or equivalents) or willingness to work towards achieving this.

- Knowledge of Project Management areas such as planning, scheduling, project controls, infrastructure, new product introduction and product development. Experience of working in a project team or cross / multi-disciplined delivery team is desirable.

- Experience of handling, collating, and presenting data using appropriate tools.

- An open-minded, curious, collaborative, and creative approach to problem-solving, and a desire to learn, develop and apply new perspectives to your work.

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.

NGS 7-9

Job Category

Project Management
Posting Date

06 Nov 2026; 00:11

Posting End Date

13 Nov 2026