What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer - External Supply Chain position at Rolls-Royce?
Job Description
Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer - External Supply Chain
Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 office days a week)
Working Location: Indianapolis, IN
With this attractive opportunity you will act as Technical Authority for the Supplier Management Team by integrating Manufacturing Engineering activities across the product lifecycle and through the supply chain. Professionally accountable to the Supplier Technical Assurance Manager, you will evaluate Methods of Manufacture and compliance to Design Intent while ensuring consistency delivering 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
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
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 will be provided if applicable.
Closing date: June 9, 2026
Job Category
Manufacturing Engineering
Job Posting Date
26 May 2026; 00:05
Pay Range
$94,160 - $153,010-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.
Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer - External Supply Chain
Working Pattern: Hybrid (3 office days a week)
Working Location: Indianapolis, IN
With this attractive opportunity you will act as Technical Authority for the Supplier Management Team by integrating Manufacturing Engineering activities across the product lifecycle and through the supply chain. Professionally accountable to the Supplier Technical Assurance Manager, you will evaluate Methods of Manufacture and compliance to Design Intent while ensuring consistency delivering 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
- Ensure product integrity for component or system is delivered through alignment of method of manufacture with design intent by interfacing with the appropriate design engineering organization
- Utilize technical packages to establish best practices and influencing commodity strategies and sourcing decisions with technical knowledge
- Ensure method of manufacture for new components are developed which meet the customers' requirements for quality, cost, delivery and responsiveness, and ensuring the level of performance is sustainable
- Validate the supplier’s method of manufacture and capability, through deployment of FAIR process and facilitate approval/change control of method changes through Method Verification process
- Approve component airworthiness through the processing of critical data associated with component definition, associated specifications, and compliance to Rolls-Royce procedures
- Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally
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 with 4 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience, OR
- Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience, OR
- Master’s degree in, OR
- PhD, OR
- 6 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience in lieu of a degree
- In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident
- Experience working with castings and/or forgings either producing or processing downstream
- Demonstrated ability to discuss both technical and business issues with all levels of management within the supply chain and with customers
- Experience bringing diverse groups together to resolve technical issues and problems and perform root cause analysis
- Understanding of metal removal and processing of Aerospace components
- Knowledge of FAIR (First Article Inspection Report) process, APQP, and PPAP
- Practical knowledge of source/method change and classified parts control
- Experience solving problems using a structured approach
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and / or Black Belt certification
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 will be provided if applicable.
Closing date: June 9, 2026
Job Category
Manufacturing Engineering
Job Posting Date
26 May 2026; 00:05
Pay Range
$94,160 - $153,010-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.
Salary : $94,160 - $153,010