Team Lead - Rotatives MRB

Job Title: Technical Lead – MRB Design, US Defense Ops

Working Pattern: Onsite/Hybrid In Office 3 days/week

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

As a Team Lead for Rotatives in US MRB Design, you will be responsible for leading a team of design engineers to deliver engineering solutions to manufactured and procured non-conforming product to ensure delivery of safe, quality, functional parts to production assembly and aftermarket for all of US Defense Programs (T56, Helicopters, US Naval, LiftSystem, AE Engines, etc.).  You will work directly with Engine Programs, Operations, Supply Chain, and various specialist groups to ensure that nonconforming Rotatives commodity parts and their applications are assessed appropriately. You will also be responsible for reviewing engineering justifications for accuracy, robustness, and overall quality to ensure safe operation of our products.

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:

Here you’ll have the opportunity to work on the following:

• Author, review, and sign Technical Analysis Reports (TARs) and Concessions to enable final disposition of nonconforming hardware across all Indianapolis Production Programs

• Function as a delegate of the Chief Design Engineer as a TAR & MRB Critical Design Approver

• Lead a small team of engineers in assessment of nonconforming hardware for the Rotatives (Turbine & Compressor Wheels, Shafts) group

• Ensure proper communications with key stakeholders within US Defense Operations, US Defense Programs, and Global Procurement/Supply Chain organization to deliver MRB solutions consistent with Defense divisional priorities

• Manage workload, prioritization of team members’ workload, and ensure work is performed to the appropriate technical standards/processes and required time frames

• Ensure knowledge capture, lessons learnt, and best practice guides for the MRB group, and encourage knowledge sharing within the group and beyond

• Where appropriate, manage the relationship between engineering and the supply chain representatives to ensure effective/efficient MRB solutions are implemented both internally and externally

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, coaching and mentoring to assigned engineers to enable them to be their best

• Develop, deliver, and demonstrate your sub-team’s delivery performance metrics, and be a champion for continuous improvement

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 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in design, manufacturing and/or quality OR

• Master’s degree and 3+ years of experience within design, manufacturing and/or quality OR

• JD/Ph.D.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident to be eligible for consideration

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 10+ years of experience in design, manufacturing and/or quality or

• Master’s degree in engineering and 8+ years of experience within design, manufacturing and/or quality, or

• JD/PhD in Engineering with 5+ years experience in design, manufacturing and/or quality

• Design experience with Critical Rotating Parts strongly preferred

  Product design, manufacturing, and quality assurance experience and knowledge of US Defense product lines, regulatory framework and customers

• Experience with the non-conforming material process and dispositioning of non-conforming product, including associated quality management system understanding

• Breadth of gas turbine engineering experience across engineering functions:  design, performance, manufacturing, test, certification/qualification, maintenance & overhaul, repair, field service, etc.

• Proven ability to exercise sound technical and business judgement.

• Experience in building/managing/leading/coaching people and teams to successful outcomes and customer satisfaction

• Demonstrated ability to influence others, internal and external stakeholders, through effective and positive engagement on technical and business issues and managing expectations

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 is available for this role if appropriate

Job Expires:3/13/26

Mechanical Systems $114,400 - $185,900-Annually 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.