Production Leader

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Job Description

Job Title: Production Leader: Manufacturing Services

Working Pattern: Onsite 9/80

Working Location: Indianapolis, IN

Lead, inspire and coach a team within a defined manufacturing maintenance environment. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness to asset availability standards.

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

• Supervisor over multi-trade skilled workforce accountable for manufacturing and test facility preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Ensure that all Manufacturing Services personnel and other reports are appropriately, resourced, trained and developed using company standard processes.
• Work closely with the Manufacturing facility, Test Engineering and Manufacturing teams to ensure that facilities and test cells are fit for purpose and are managed via an asset care program
• Effectively interface with Group Property and their service providers partners to ensure all services are enacted to the business requirement.
• Ensures that agreed performance targets for all manufacturing services accountability are monitored using standard tools and appropriate actions are take where targets are not achieved.
• Ensure that Manufacturing Services area comply to the latest HS&E standards and business requirements including fulfilling specific roles such as Responsible Person (RP) for specific activities
• Ensure that both planned and corrective maintenance actions are carried out in accordance with company procedures through the deployment of internal or third-party resource, maximizing asset availability
• HSE - Drive towards a performance and culture of Zero Harm. Ensuring our teams are trained and compliant to safety standards, driving environmental targets and promoting wellbeing.
• PRODUCT SAFETY - Accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organization.
• QUALITY - Drive to Zero Defects. Work with all functions to reduce risks and drive product and service right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
• COST - Develop and manage agreed people budget (headcount, productivity, absenteeism). Understand and manage the cell cost center budget and work with the team to drive productivity and reduce consumable cost.
• DELIVERY - Deliver our products and services to customer commitments on time. Plan using load and capacity tools and manage bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the cell. Understand WIP and inventory levels and drive to meet business targets.
• PEOPLE - Optimize the capability and capacity of the cell by developing a flexible team. Develop and motivate team members ensuring they are trained, capable and effective.
• LEAN - Ensure that all relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives and coaching the team to fully participate in continuous improvement.
• LEAD - Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviors. Motivate, delegate and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
• ASSETS - Optimize the performance of manufacturing assets to maximize facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand. Understand current constraints and develop a future state.
• DIGITAL MANUFACTURING - Understand the IT systems we use to drive our management and leadership activity. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage cell and people performance. Communicate to the team using digital tools and be able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.
  
  

Basic Requirements

• An Associate's degree in Engineering or Manufacturing with 7 years of experience in a manufacturing environment OR;
• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Manufacturing with 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment OR;
• A Masters degree in Engineering or Manufacturing with 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment OR;
• JD/PhD
• In lieu of a degree, 9 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• In order to be considered for this role, you must be a US citizen
  
  

Preferred

• Knowledge of Maximo System for Maintenance repair tracking
• Strong experience in the maintenance of CNC Machines, Heat Treat, Foundry and other Production Equipment.
• Strong understanding of asset availability
• Elements of Program Management helpful
• Has Companywide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Understanding/knowledge of multiple disciplines demonstrating breadth of experience.
• Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favorable and unfavorable conditions, utilizing cross-functional teams.
• Has experience of deploying continuous improvement methodologies such as lean and six sigma, ideally with Green Belt accreditation.
• Management experience in an engineering industry is ideal, but not essential. Attended higher education and/or leadership development programs.
• Appreciation of product integrity.
  
  

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

No relocation is available for this position.

Job Expires: 11/14/25

Job Category

Manufacturing

Job Posting Date

07 Jan 2026; 00:01

Pay Range

$103,844 - $168,747-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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