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Project Manager

🏒 Rolls-Royce β€’ πŸ“ Derby, England β€’ πŸ•’ Sep 14, 2026
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Position Overview & Specifications

Job Description Project Manager Full Time Hybrid/Warrington or Derby Why Rolls-Royce? Rolls-Royce offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to work within the Civil Nuclear business. Our world-class engineers design, develop and refine our products in an environment that is curious, challenging, and able to change to meet the world’s vital power needs. 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. This role will be project focused, delivering critical programmes with EDF for the Hinkley Point C project, the successful outcome of which is crucial for the UK infrastructure. We consider this to be a unique opportunity within Rolls-Royce to be involved in the design, procure, manufacture, construction and commissioning of a large complex β€˜turnkey’ project. You will be involved throughout the project lifecycle and play a pivotal role, delivering right through to the successful handover to the client. This is a chance to work closely with stakeholders at all levels internally as well as externally. We are committed to exceeding our customer expectations to deliver products and services of the highest quality, safely, on time, in full and at a globally competitive cost.

Any role at Rolls-Royce is truly international. Working together in global teams, we develop strategies and deliver cost-competitive supply chain solutions across all our sectors. Along with eliminating waste and developing breakthrough technologies, we also manage and reduce costs throughout the product lifecycle. 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, so we encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work. What you’ll be doing: You will be reporting to the Programme Manager Civil Nuclear and as a Project Manager you will be responsible for:
  • Day-to-day project management of all Civil Nuclear activities, (excluding DS+S led activities).
  • Maintaining and developing effective project management processes within the Civil Nuclear business and delivering the approved scope of work in accordance with specified objectives.
  • Taking action in order to ensure the Civil Nuclear contracts meet business and customer requirements on delivery, quality, cost, profit, turnover and cash, such as confirming and acquiring the means to achieve customer requirements and developing and communicating the scope and specifications for work change.
  • Preparing Project Management Plans and developing detailed plans, budgets and statements of work to meet the overall project objectives after which you will communicate the plan and budget for delivering the work on time and manage project cost and implement and maintain Risk Management in accordance with the Civil Nuclear Risk Management Plan.
Who we are looking for: At Rolls-Royce 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
  • You will have demonstrable experience in a relevant discipline, preferably on project work (either within an Integrated Programme Team, or functionally based).
  • You should have coupled with experience in the application of specific project management processes (e.g. cost or scope management).
  • You will have sound knowledge of project management processes and good knowledge of the project control process.
  • You will have a good understanding of SAP IPM and ideally will have completed SAP training in a CAM and/or PM role.
We’re 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. We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at careers.rolls-royce.com Closing Date: Wednesday, 3rd May 2023 Job Category Project Management Posting Date 26 Apr 2023; 00:04

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