B-52 / F130 Lifecycle Engineer

Working location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid - 3 office days per week)

About the role

To provide world-class technical support for in-service/delivered products and to influence maturity throughout the product life cycle to meet customer and business needs. Ensure Design Intent is met and maintain safe, reliable, and cost-effective product attributes through life modeling of product reliability, deterioration mechanisms, and costs. Help implement robust and cost-effective solutions.

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world, at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build, and service systems that provide critical power where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

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.

Responsibilities

• Management of known and potential safety issues (SAR & RT) and appropriate involvement in safety boards as defined in the Safety Management Plan.
• Provide technical support to resolve technical queries and operational arisings.
• Lead investigation of operational issues to establish root cause, introduce containment actions, and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide technical surveillance and quality assurance audits to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectations.
• Develop and approve the technical content of technical publications/communications (used by OEM, build/commissioning/maintenance bases, and customers), including acceptance limit development.
• Set reliability targets (such as operational disruption metrics) based on historical data and monitor performance against targets.
• Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution, and fly-forward analysis.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining lifecycle engineering policies and associated maintenance planning documentation.
• Manage issues affecting Maturity, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability, Maintainability, and maintain Design Intent.
• Provide lifecycle technical data (build/in-service/decommissioning) and model/support modeling of through-life performance, deterioration mechanisms, and service attributes to create and maintain time-on-platform prediction, identify optimization opportunities, and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
• Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g., presentations and/or reports) to platform providers, regulators, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements and identify requirements for new Health Monitoring System or capability.
• Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and adhere to technical and business requirements of internal and external stakeholders.
• Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning, and maintenance activities.
• Gather in-service data and carry out continuous improvement by identifying Best Practice and Learning from Experience activities, feeding back into future programs and product design teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 2+ years of relevant experience, OR
• Master's degree in Engineering, OR
• JD/PhD
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Willingness to travel infrequently on a scheduled and unscheduled basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and demonstrated capability in root cause investigation, including evidence-based methods
• Experience in safety investigations (Red Tops) involving Rolls-Royce products
• Experience and knowledge of BR700-Series product line
• Breadth of gas turbine engineering experience across engineering functions: design, performance, validation/verification, customer application, certification/qualification, maintenance & overhaul, repair, field service, etc.
• Proven ability to exercise sound technical and business judgement
• Knowledge of components/systems functionality and numerical methods
• Experience in support/lead cross-functional teams (e.g., specialists, suppliers, customers, partners)

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes:

• Base pay and a discretionary bonus plan
• Health, dental, vision, disability, life, and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Flexible spending account and health savings account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off and certain paid holidays
• Paid parental and family care leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Long-term incentive plan

Options may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and collective bargaining agreements.

Pay

$94,160 - $153,010 annually

Schedule

Full-time, hybrid (3 office days per week)