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You will also help shape the future capability and effectiveness of Development Engineering.\nWhat you will be doing:\nSupporting the Chief Development Engineer in the leadership and governance of Fleet Development activities.\nActing as delegate for the Chief Development Engineer when required.\nLeading the planning, coordination and delivery of Development Engineering activities across Fleet programmes and product support initiatives.\nEnsuring robust verification strategies and development plans are established and executed to meet technical, certification and business requirements.\nLeading multidisciplinary teams in the resolution of complex technical issues affecting fleet performance, reliability and customer operation.\nDriving effective prioritisation of resources, development hardware, test capability and engineering effort across competing business demands.\nProviding technical leadership and direction to Development Engineers and Project Development Engineers.\nEnsuring appropriate management of technical risk and opportunity throughout programme execution.\nSupporting product safety, airworthiness and certification activities in accordance with Rolls-Royce processes and governance requirements.\nDeveloping and maintaining strong working relationships with Engineering, Programmes, Customer Team, Services, Safety, Certification and external stakeholders.\nChampioning continuous improvement and driving adoption of best practice across Development Engineering.\nPosition Qualifications:\nDegree-qualified in an engineering or relevant STEM discipline.\nSignificant experience within Development Engineering, Verification & Validation, Test & Experimental Engineering or related engineering functions.\nSound understanding of engine development, verification strategy development and certification processes.\nExperience leading complex technical activities involving multiple stakeholders.\nStrong programme and delivery management skills.\nExcellent communication and influencing capability.\nAbility to make balanced engineering decisions under pressure and in ambiguous situations.\nExperience managing technical risk and driving issue resolution.\nStrong understanding of product safety, quality and engineering governance requirements.\nPreferred Requirements:\nPassion for developing people, capability and organisational performance.\nOur vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.\nRolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.\nPlease be aware that priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.\nThis job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. 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