Process Operator - Submarines at Rolls-Royce

What you will be doing

• Operate and monitor machine work centres, systems processes (eg Chemical Clean and Heat Treatment), support Inspection processes (eg Putty Replication for Profile inspection) and Assembly of components in accordance with detailed Technical or Work Instructions.
• Use of any specialist equipment, machine work centres and testing and the relevant training will be captured via the 5 Step Pack.
• Responsible for applying the appropriate Health and Safety practices and maintaining a safe environment at all times.
• Required to work as part of an integrated team to achieve cell targets and focus on continuous improvement across the products and processes.

Key Accountabilities:

HS&E

• Perform operations in a safe manner complying with all HS&E requirements
• Keeps work area safe, tidy and clean
• Follows all fire, conventional HS&E and where applicable the Nuclear licensed site conditions, procedures and regulations
• Identify and report any matter that indicates that the safety of an operation or the safe condition of any plant may be affected.

PRODUCT SAFETY

• Responsible for delivering a defined set of tasks, complying with procedures to apply established methods to plan.
• Understand and interpret manufacturing engineering drawings, technical instructions and written specifications.
• Can safely deal with any problems / discrepancies while following the correct procedures. Makes decisions and provides suitable justification for those decisions and conclusions.

QUALITY

• Ensures that the completed tasks for components meets the quality standards & drawing requirements and that the relevant paperwork & documentation is completed in full.
• Deliver right first time quality for each operation
• Comply with the procedures for control of non-conformance for their area
• Works in an integrated team to effectively resolve quality issues.

COST

• Works within the team to drive productivity and achieve the cell financial targets.
• Aware of consumable costs and supports in the reduction of waste.

DELIVERY

• Works closely with manufacturing engineering on design and manufacturability problems to quickly resolve issues
• Understands cell performance metrics and be involved with improvement activities to enable improved performance in cell
• Supports activities to enable on time delivery to the customer and is flexible to perform other duties when assigned.

PEOPLE

• Supports with or provides on the job training and technical support to other team members as required.
• Be engaged when receiving communications from cell and business leaders.
• Understand any knowledge & skill gaps and be proactive in addressing these through the relevant training and development pathways to become a Suitably Qualified Experienced Person (SQEP).
• Where applicable ensure qualifications that require external bodies to certify (eg PCN, CSWIP) or a validation from internal authority (eg eye tests) are kept upto date.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Ensures that any equipment and measuring tools, used when performing tasks, are in calibration
• Ensures equipment is fit for purpose both before and after use
• Ensure all breakdowns are reported appropriately.

Who we’re looking for:

• Knowledge/Experience of monitoring or application of Chemical or Heat Treatment processes is beneficial.
• Knowledge/Experience of machine work centres to pre-loaded programmes is beneficial.
• Awareness of HS&E requirements, including risk assessment processes.
• An awareness of the importance of sustaining and contributing to a strong safety culture.
• Manage a number of tasks simultaneously, following guidance from the Production Leader.
• Demonstrate the ability to get things done in an ever changing environment.   
• Display confident communication skills and experience of team working  
• Project a positive ‘can do’ attitude to deliver on objectives and commitments  
• Be flexible and willing to multi skill with a desire to grow, learn and develop new skills.
• May be required to gain further knowledge of chemical process and legislation through training                
• Flexibility to learn and adapt to new processes and areas of work Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.     
• In certain areas of RRSL this role is classed as a Nuclear Baseline (NB) Post as defined in Functional NB Statement - Appendix P: Core Production - Lower-Tier Manufacturing (Document Ref. EDNS97040279868). Where this is a NB Post then competency requirements as listed in RRMPOL Licensed Site Competency Framework (EDNS9701692658) apply.
• Will be required to work Shifts  
• Will be required to work reasonable amount of overtime  
• Key stakeholders will be Production Leads, Manufacturing Engineering and Quality Engineers   
• The environment provides opportunities for development as you will be engaging with key stakeholders ie Manufacturing cells, Regulatory Bodies, Manufacturing Engineering and Maintenance Services.