Job Description
Capability Lead - Systems Engineering & Product Performance
Indianapolis - Hybrid (3 days on site per week)
The Capability Lead - Systems Engineering & Product Performance lead, develop and engage Engineering personnel to meet current and future business requirements. In this role you will support definition of the product performance engineering strategy. In conjunction with your global peers, you will ensure that world class capability is effectively utilised to provide products and services that satisfy business requirements.
We’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.
Innovate & Power the World
To ensure we continue to be pioneers of our industry, Rolls-Royce has a team of over 16,500 engineers around the globe. They include everyone from world experts in their field to those who manage hundreds of people and millions of dollars’ worth of investments. We recruit engineers at all levels and in a range of disciplines. And while we encourage specialization, we also offer freedom to cross-specialize and develop skills across a number of different areas.
At Rolls-Royce, we look beyond tomorrow. We continually pioneer integrated power and propulsion solutions to deliver cleaner, safer, and more competitive power.
Rolls-Royce is a Military Friendly Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. You can learn more here.
Key Accountabilities:
Provide technical leadership & technical assurance of the Product Performance group; ensuring compliance to processes through the life-cycle, maintaining delivery commitments for the Programmes and Capability development activities.
Lead the Operational running of the function, representing the assigned group in the Global Capability organisation, through regular governance of Safety, Quality, Budgets, Capability Development, Risk & People competency.
Deploy assigned staff to approved business activities and technical programmes; confirming that staff are suitably qualified and experienced for both current and future business requirements, through a combination of competency framework tools, training, skill development and staff rotation.
Deliver effective Performance Management for the group; ensuring that employees have relevant and appropriate objectives aligned to both the Performance Capability, Programme objectives & Company strategy.
Drive forward the Capability Development of the Product Performance function in line with the overall Capability strategy and Business requirements and priorities, driving efficiency and the development of a Continuous Improvement culture.
Provide people leadership for the Product Performance group, including individual and professional development, Performance & Reward management, HS&E and Security
Basic Requirements:
Bachelor`s degree in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics with 5+ experience in thermodynamics, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and/or engine design OR;
A Master`s degree in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics 3+ experience in thermodynamics, gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and/or engine design OR;
A PhD in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics
Proficiency in computer programming language such as FORTRAN, Visual Basic, and/or C++/Matlab
In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a US Citizen
Preferred Requirements:
Experience in the performance-related support of the design and/or development of gas turbines
Simulation/modelling of gas turbine cycles, hybrid electric systems, cycle analysis, engine operability, sizing and/or preliminary design analysis
Has provided technical and professional leadership to a team of engineers and other management level personnel.
Pioneer the next generation of innovation. Join us and you’ll develop your skills and expertise to the very highest levels, working in an international environment for a company known the world over for its brilliance.
Our People are our Power
We are pioneers of power. At Rolls-Royce we impact the world by being free to innovate, explore and be brilliant. Our excellence today, builds on our strong heritage and makes us advance “beyond tomorrow”.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realize their full potential.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.
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 is available for this role
Job CategoryMechanical Systems
Job Posting Date13 Feb 2025; 00:02
Pay Range$115,443 - $187,595-Annually
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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.