What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Quality Manager position at Rolls-Royce?
Job Description
Job Title: Manufacturing Quality Manager
Working Pattern: Full Time (onsite 9/80 schedule)
Working location: Indianapolis, IN
A new opportunity has arisen for a Quality Manager within a Manufacturing Business Unit at Rolls-Royce. In this role, you will be a partner with manufacturing and engineering teams to ensure products and processes consistently meet regulatory, customer, and business requirements. You will provide leadership and direction on all aspects of quality, driving continuous improvement, strengthening the operating system, and enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals while enhancing customer satisfaction.
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.
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.
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 behaviors 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.
A 9/80 compressed work week means an employee works 80 hours over nine days in a two‑week period. Generally, this means working nine hours Monday ‑ Thursday, with alternating eight‑hour Fridays and “off” Fridays.
Relocation assistance is not being provided for this role at this time.
Global Grade/Level: Level C
Closing Date: 06/12/2026
Job Category
Quality
Job Posting Date
29 May 2026; 00:05
Pay Range
$119,520 - $194,220-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 Quality Manager
Working Pattern: Full Time (onsite 9/80 schedule)
Working location: Indianapolis, IN
A new opportunity has arisen for a Quality Manager within a Manufacturing Business Unit at Rolls-Royce. In this role, you will be a partner with manufacturing and engineering teams to ensure products and processes consistently meet regulatory, customer, and business requirements. You will provide leadership and direction on all aspects of quality, driving continuous improvement, strengthening the operating system, and enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals while enhancing customer satisfaction.
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.
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.
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
- Lead and develop a team of quality engineers and inspection leaders, building capability and a strong quality culture.
- Ensure compliance with management systems, regulatory requirements, and customer standards through effective assurance and audit strategies.
- Govern and improve quality performance, driving KPIs and implementing corrective actions where targets are not met.
- Reduce Cost of Non-Quality through defect prevention, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies such as 8D problem solving.
- Own and report quality performance metrics, providing clear insight to stakeholders and leadership.
- Drive product quality planning and approval (e.g., APQP and PPAP), ensuring robust processes and controls are in place to meet specifications.
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviors 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 in Engineering with 7 years of Quality, Engineering or Manufacturing experience, OR
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 5 years of Quality, Engineering or Manufacturing experience, OR
- Master's degree in Engineering with 3 years of Quality, Engineering or Manufacturing experience, OR
- PhD in Engineering, OR
- 9 years of Quality, Engineering or Manufacturing experience in lieu of a degree
- In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen
- Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
- Experience of GD&T system
- Experiencing reading blueprints
- Experience employing inspection techniques
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma tools
- Experience with problem solving techniques such as 8D
- Leadership and team development skills
- Effective communication, collaboration, and cross-functional problem-solving skills, as well as a commitment to core company behaviors (putting safety first, doing the right thing, keeping it simple, and making a difference).
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
A 9/80 compressed work week means an employee works 80 hours over nine days in a two‑week period. Generally, this means working nine hours Monday ‑ Thursday, with alternating eight‑hour Fridays and “off” Fridays.
Relocation assistance is not being provided for this role at this time.
Global Grade/Level: Level C
Closing Date: 06/12/2026
Job Category
Quality
Job Posting Date
29 May 2026; 00:05
Pay Range
$119,520 - $194,220-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 : $119,520 - $194,220