Job description
Job Description
Agile Coach
Bristol
Fulltime
Why Rolls-Royce?
Future Programmes UK and International is at the heart of securing the future growth of the Defence business. We are delivering tomorrows technology fast, by bringing together the company’s best engineers, programme managers and business professionals. Working in partnership with Governments, primes and new technology companies across the globe, we deliver future solutions to meet the customers emerging requirements.
In all areas these roles involve working with a range of key business stakeholders to support the delivery of key programme milestones thus enabling the delivery of our Defence Combat strategy for the next 50 years.
We are looking for an Agile Coach to join the Bristol Future Programmes Transformation team to help facilitate and embed this change in approach.
Rolls-Royce’s customers and the company have entrusted us to deliver the future technologies, people, processes and programmes. Successful delivery of these programmes will ensure both the UK and Rolls-Royce retains combat capability, ensuring freedom of action for the UK and enabling the company to maintain our market share in the Naval, Defence Aero and combat markets.
Future Programmes is looking for someone with drive, passion and commitment who can:
- Embrace agility – you will be able to respond quickly to challenges and be able to manage progress despite, missing, ambiguous, or changing requirements.
- Bold – you believe in yourself and the team to bravely push the boundaries, and feel comfortable with ‘failing fast’ to pursue rapid knowledge capture.
- Pursue collaboration – you find strength in working with others, both inside and outside of our business, and value the diversity of people and perspectives.
- Seeks simplicity – you keep it simple and remove complexity, in how you communicate and the way you work.
What you will be doing:
These roles provide you with a fantastic opportunity to;
- Responsible for effective deployment and execution of agile management system and high performance culture as Agile Ways of Working (WoW) across multiple integrated project teams
- Facilitates effective integration and coordination of mission, roadmaps and plans, including preparation and readiness of major planning cycle events
- Leads continuous improvement of Agile WoW for team including research, translation, development and experimentation of Agile for team context, including coaching of team leader roles e.g. Scrum Master and Product Owners.
- Coordinates with other programmes and functions ensuring seamless integration of Agile management system with traditional business operations
- Supporting delivery and development of training and coaching to improve the knowledge of Agile approaches and tools in our teams.
Who we’re looking for:
- Experience in application of a variety Agile methodologies and frameworks to novel contexts including: Scrum, SAFe, Disciplined Agile, Lean Start-up, etc.
- Proven track record of delivery in fast paced product development including experience in complex hardware projects
- Great communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong personal philosophy for what makes great teams - happy to challenge and be challenged
- Original and creative problem solver with passion for learning and for supporting the learning of others
- Qualification to a degree level in a STEM subject would be great, but not essential, if equivalent experience and qualifications can be demonstrated
You should be highly numerate with strong technical and analytical skills, problem-solving ability and capable of systems level thinking, including personal drive, excellent communication and presentation skills, and will need to contribute effectively in a team environment. You will be expected to take the lead in identifying project requirements, specifying and executing packages of work.
To work for the Rolls-Royce Defence Business there may be a requirement for an individual to hold a level of National Security Vetting (NSV). If the requirement is identified Rolls-Royce will support the application for NSV if the individual does not currently already have this in place.
Join us & Power Our Future
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.
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: 19th March 2023
Job Category
Digital
Posting Date
09 Mar 2023; 00:03Rolls-Royce
careers.rolls-royce.com
London, United Kingdom
Tufan Erginbilgic
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Aerospace & Defence
1906