Job Description

Job Title: Quality Technician

Working Pattern:

Monday – Thursday 8am – 16:45

Friday – 8am to 12pm

Working location: Winsford

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within the Defence sector therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

The role is required over and above existing QA resource to support the fulfilment of newly secured business/contracts. This has created the requirement for additional resource to successfully deliver the customer commitments and contract deliverables. The focus will be ensuring our business has robust, compliant and repeatable high quality across the supply chain.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role is responsible for ensuring that the business unit external supply chain deliver the required levels of quality consistently and repeatedly for the required products and services. Ensuring that external suppliers are positioned to meet all regulatory, customer and contractual requirements.

The role will require accountability for the delivery of benefits to the business through the deployment of best practice and improvement activities within the external supply chain.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls Royce offer excellent benefits and the opportunity to learn, develop and grow within the company. The Winsford business is currently working on some very exciting opportunities that will inevitably provide opportunity for individual growth within the business.  

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, 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.

Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

What you will be doing

Provide oversight and governance of nominated suppliers to ensure product and/or service integrity. Ensure the requirements of our QMS with regards to suppliers is understood and complied with. Establish quality requirements for each supplier that align with customer contractual requirements, working in collaboration with the purchasing team.Identify and take appropriate action when suppliers do not meet quality related requirements. Present solutions, share good practice and facilitate gap closure to ensure improvements are implemented.Professional courage to highlight areas of concern and risk with regard to suitability of a process to meet its requirements for safety and fitness for purpose.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Ideally degree qualified in a relevant Quality/Engineering discipline or equivalent experience based knowledge.Good knowledge of manufacturing processes and systems as may apply to the production and maintenance of (reciprocal engine driven) power generation, electrical control and distribution equipment.Understanding of applicable Regulatory and Industry Codes and Standards.Able to make sound, logical decisions, based on available data.Aptitude to develop functional understanding of complex products/systems at pace.

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, 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 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.

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.

Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy

Closing date: 11/07/25

For further information please contact: Chris Jefferies

Job Category

Quality

Posting Date

02 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

10 Jul 2025