Rolls-Royce
Cost Estimating Specialist - Submarines
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Cost Estimating Lead - Submarines
Working Pattern: Full time
Working Location: Derby – Jubilee House
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cost Estimating Lead to join Rolls-Royce Submarines in Derby.
To support our engineering teams, we now require a highly motivated project team to deploy and execute the full breadth of project management practices in this rapidly growing, fast-paced engineering programme. You will be a key member in the project team in the early phase of the project, leading the definition and execution of the performance measurement baseline. You will take a key role in establishing and delivering fuel and the fuel facility infrastructure for nuclear products of the future.
If you want a dynamic role, with the opportunity to learn and grow, in a creative and innovative environment, with real accountability and influence to deliver success, this is the role for you.
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.
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.
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What we offer:
- Excellent development opportunities
- Competitive salary
- Exceptional benefits including 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.
What you will be doing:
- Recognised as local authority in relation to cost estimating and maintaining that status by continuing professional development, monitoring the external environment for opportunities, and liaising with group and other sector functions.
- Develop and maintain implementation plans in the area of cost estimating.
- Lead the creation and maintenance of project artefacts in the area of cost estimating.
- Coach and develop others where appropriate in the cost estimating discipline or provide expert guidance and authoritative leadership to small/medium teams.
Ideal Candidate:
- Ideally attained Degree level qualification in PM or APM Project Management Qualification or can demonstrate equivalent PM knowledge.
- Ideally 5 years’ experience with the majority of years’ experience in Cost Estimating.
- Data analytics experience is advantageous but not essential.
- Demonstrate good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and interpret information from different sources.
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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.
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.
Job Category: Project Management
Posting Date: 29 Sept 2026; 00:09
Posting End Date: 08 Oct 2026
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