Join Rolls-Royce as a Workshop Team Leader – Rail Power Pack MRO in Winsford, United Kingdom. In this full-time, permanent, onsite role, you will provide visible daily leadership to a multi-skilled production team, ensuring safety, quality, and delivery objectives are met while building a robust rail power pack MRO capability.
Requirements
Relevant engineering or manufacturing experience required.
Appropriate level of technical competency for the activities being supervised required.
Relevant leadership or supervisory experience required.
Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent technical qualification desirable.
IOSH / NEBOSH or equivalent, and Lean / Six Sigma qualifications desirable.
Relevant rail industry competencies desirable.
Skills & Responsibilities
People Leadership: Lead, engage, and develop a multi-skilled MRO production team, setting daily expectations and allocating resources effectively.
Safety Management: Provide proactive safety leadership, ensuring strict adherence to HSE standards, risk assessments, and safe working practices for heavy lifting, electrical, and engine systems.
Production Delivery: Own day-to-day delivery of rail power pack overhauls, coordinating mechanical, electrical, cleaning, painting, inspection, and testing operations.
Process Improvement: Establish and develop robust MRO capabilities by embedding standard work, capturing lessons learned, and driving continuous improvement.
Potential transition routes: People from production supervisor, mechanical engineering team lead, or rolling-stock maintenance roles may bring strong technical supervision and operational skills, alongside meeting relevant engineering experience requirements.
Job description
Job Description
Workshop Team Leader – Rail Power Pack MRO
Location: Winsford
Full time Onsite
Job Description
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
The Team Leader will provide effective day-to-day leadership of a multi-skilled MRO team responsible for the repair, overhaul, refurbishment, testing and return to service of rail power packs and is accountable for delivering the agreed production plan safely, to the required quality standard and within agreed timescales.
The role will provide visible leadership across the shop floor, ensuring that people, processes, equipment and materials are effectively coordinated to achieve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People objectives.
You will play a key role in establishing and developing a robust rail power pack MRO capability, embedding standard work, lessons learned and continuous improvement into future overhaul programmes
What you will be doing:
Safety & Environment
Provide visible and proactive safety leadership within the MRO facility.
Ensure all activities are undertaken in accordance with company HSE requirements, risk assessments, COSHH assessments and approved methods of work.
Ensure appropriate PPE and safety controls are in place.
Challenge unsafe behaviours and conditions.
Stop work where an immediate safety risk exists.
Ensure safe working practices are followed for:
Engine removal and installation
Heavy lifting and handling
Pressure washing and cleaning
Decontamination activities
Fuel and oil systems
Electrical systems
Running and testing of power packs
Working with chemicals and hazardous substances
Support incident, near-miss and safety investigations.
Maintain high standards of housekeeping and 5S.
People Leadership & Development
Lead, engage and develop a multi-skilled MRO production team.
Ensure work is carried out to approved technical instructions and engineering requirements.
Ensure components are correctly identified, inspected and controlled.
Ensure defective or non-conforming components are identified and appropriately managed.
Ensure critical dimensions, inspections and checks are completed.
Ensure correct torque, assembly and configuration requirements are followed.
Ensure traceability is maintained throughout the overhaul.
Support engine and power pack testing activities.
Capture lessons learned from completed overhauls.
Drive consistency between individual power pack overhauls.
Support the development of standardised MRO processes.
Position Qualifications
Essential
Relevant engineering or manufacturing experience.
Appropriate level of technical competency for the activities being supervised.
Relevant leadership / supervisory experience.
Desirable:
Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent technical qualification.
IOSH / NEBOSH or equivalent.
Lean / Six Sigma qualification.
Relevant rail industry competencies.
Preferred requirements:
Proven experience leading a production, engineering or MRO team.
Experience working within a safety-critical or engineering environment.
Demonstrable experience of managing competing production priorities.
Strong understanding of quality and engineering standards.
Experience of problem solving and root-cause analysis.
Strong communication and people leadership skills.
Ability to interpret technical documentation and engineering instructions.
Demonstrable commitment to continuous improvement.
· Rail engineering or rolling-stock experience.
· Diesel engine or power generation experience.
· Engine overhaul / refurbishment experience.
· Mechanical and electrical engineering experience.
· Heavy engineering or MRO experience.
· Experience of complex lifting and handling operations.
· Lean / Six Sigma experience.
· Experience implementing new production processes.
· Previous experience establishing a new production or MRO capability.
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
Power Systems is the Rolls-Royce business which provides world-class power solutions and complete life-cycle support under our product and solution brand mtu. Through digitalisation and electrification, we strive to develop drive and power generation solutions that provide answers to the challenges posed by the rapidly growing societal demands for energy and mobility.
We deliver and service comprehensive, powerful and reliable systems, based on both gas and diesel engines, as well as electrified hybrid systems. These technologically advanced solutions serve our customers in the marine and infrastructure sectors worldwide.
Our 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.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
