Rolls-Royce

Job Description

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Rotatives Operations

Working Pattern: Fulltime

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

As the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for a team of Manufacturing Engineers supporting production in the manufacturing facility. You will act as the Technical Authority, assuring the initial and continuing capability of the method of production to produce product conforming to design intent, and ensuring the resolution of technical issues/problems/arisings, to meet business and customer requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate, and lead-time.

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.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Act as the Technical Authority - Specify Manufacturing Engineering and process requirements and make technical decisions in relation to the area of accountability and chair the Control Authority(s) governing change for area of accountability, subject to appropriate delegation.
• Quality - Promote a culture of zero defects within the area of accountability and ensure that manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are developed and deployed to support Right First-Time manufacture; coaching the community in the use of RRPS, RCCA and Systems Engineering tools
• Improvements - Identify, evaluate, and govern the requirements for improvements and innovations in manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within their area of accountability.
• Deploy capability - Maintain and/or govern Production Technical Packages (technical instructions, programs, tooling, etc.) for all parts/assemblies which clearly define the manufacturing process whilst ensuring manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are capable of meeting and continuing to meet requirements for quality, cost, delivery rate and lead-time.
• Product Safety - Responsible for ensuring that product safety risks are understood and mitigated to meet the required safety levels and reduce the safety risks so far as is reasonably practicable and champion product safety and promote a product safety culture in the supply chain, ensuring learning related to product safety is embedded.
• Develop talent - Act as a professional mentor of the manufacturing engineering community ensuring required competences are in place and promoting the development and growth of the community.

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.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, OR;
• Master's degree with 3+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, OR;
• JD/PhD, OR;
• In lieu of a degree 9+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident to be considered for this role

Preferred Requirements:

• Good mentorship, interpersonal relationship, and communication skills
• Demonstrated technical project planning and mentorship experience
• Has provided technical and professional mentorship to a team of Engineers
• Demonstrated evaluative thinking and problem solving abilities. Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
• Experience with manufacturing change in a suitable combination of ways, such as facility re-design, facility move, technology insertion, new product introduction, process revalidation, or quality improvement
• Experience with aerospace materials, tolerances, and manufacturing processes
• Knowledge of GD&T and experience with Design for Manufacture

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.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date: June 26, 2025

Job Category

Manufacturing Engineering

Job Posting Date

12 Jun 2025; 00:06

Pay Range

$115,443 - $187,595-Annually

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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