Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Title: Supplier Quality Engineer

Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 in office days a week

Working Location: Indianapolis, IN

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will promote and maintain Quality in the aligned business area through a strategy of Assure, Protect and Enable activities, so that the business can achieve its goals, enhance its reputation and deliver customer satisfaction. This leader must maintain an independence reflecting the business and regulatory. In this role, you will have up to 25% domestic travel.

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:

• Support and lead (where appropriate) the deployment of the Quality strategy for the aligned business area to achieve its goals, enhance its reputation and deliver customer satisfaction.
• Support the development and deployment of Quality capability (skills & knowledge) and culture of the aligned business to meet future regulatory, customer and business requirements.
• Deploy metrics, key performance indicators; ensure appropriate governance and support is in place within the aligned business area to drive Quality performance to meet requirements, business goals and enhance its reputation.
• To drive change to the Operating System (process, culture & leadership, governance & risk) and SABRe to mitigate risks, maximize effectiveness and eliminate cost / waste through insight obtained from proactive assurance and problem themes.
• Protect the business and customer through performing, managing and coaching of problem containment and resolution, to minimize impact and to ensure the necessary corrective and preventative actions are completed and verified in a timely manner.
• Conduct product audit and process walks and review effectiveness of supplier’s internal assurance programs

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:

• Associate degree and 4 years of experience with root cause and corrective action investigation, OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience with root cause and corrective action investigation, OR
• Master's degree, OR
• JD/PhD, OR
• 6 years of experience with root cause and corrective investigation, in a quality field experience in lieu of a degree
• In order to be considered as eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

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.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Closing date: January 2, 2026

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.