Manufacturing Engineering Technical Specialist, Gears & Shafts

Agma; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Rolls-Royce North America is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Technical Specialist for Gears & Shafts in Indianapolis, IN. This hybrid, full-time role leads a cross-functional manufacturing team and drives producibility, supplier readiness, and quality for external gear and shaft manufacturing within the North American supply chain.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in gear and shaft processes, problem solving, and knowledge of APQP/PPAP.

Qualifications

• Basic requirements include degrees with years of related experience or extensive work experience in lieu of a degree.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for eligibility.
• Experience in gear and shaft manufacturing and associated processes is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team with manufacturing emphasis to meet program objectives and deliver products on time and within cost and quality targets.
• Provide gear and shaft manufacturing input to design engineering to ensure producibility and facilitate design-for-manufacture events.
• Represent manufacturing perspective on sourcing strategy and supplier readiness.
• Develop and conduct supplier manufacturing readiness and technical risk assessments.
• Provide support to suppliers on quality requirements (FAIR, PPAP, SABRe).
• Perform supplier hardware delivery source inspections and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Manufacturing expertise

Problem solving

Lean Six Sigma

Quality awareness

Sourcing strategy input

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Experience in lieu of degree

Job description

Manufacturing Engineering Technical Specialist, Gears & Shafts
Full-Time – Hybrid (3 office days a week)
Indianapolis, IN

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.

• As the Manufacturing Engineering Technical Specialist for Machining, you will have the opportunity to use your ideas to help shape the future for Rolls-Royce North America’s external supply chain gear and shaft manufacturing.
• You will lead all technical aspects of the gear and shaft external supply chain manufacturing activities in both development and production with accountability to ensure quality, cost, and delivery requirements are met.
• You will be instrumental in ensuring technical and procedural processes and organizations are ready for industrialization.
• The technical specialist will be recognized as an authoritative source of gear and shaft manufacturing technical expertise and advice in the North American external supply chain and viewed as a key member of the broader team of technical expertise by senior capability leadership.
• In this role you will travel domestically and internationally up to 20%.

What you will be doing:

• Lead a cross-functional team, with manufacturing emphasis, to achieve program objectives and deliver products to the customer at the right time, cost, quality and responsiveness
• Provide gear and shaft manufacturing input to design engineering to ensure component designs are producible & facilitate design for manufacture supplier events
• Lead & represent manufacturing perspective regarding sourcing strategy
• Develop & conduct supplier manufacturing readiness and technical risk assessments
• Provide support to supplier with quality requirements (fixed process, FAIR, PPAP, SABRe)
• Perform supplier hardware delivery source inspections
• Create the environment for continuous improvement with the emphasis on sharing and searching for best practice

What 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 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 with 7+ years of Operations, Manufacturing, Quality or Purchasing experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of Operations, Manufacturing, Quality or Purchasing experience, OR
• Master’s degree with 3+ years of Operations, Manufacturing, Quality or Purchasing experience, OR
• PhD, OR
• 9+ years of Operations, Manufacturing, Quality or Purchasing experience in lieu of a degree
• In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong understanding of gear, spline and shaft manufacturing processes, special processes related to gears and splines, and inspection techniques, including analytical gear chart interpretation.
• Strong problem-solving skills related to gear and spline manufacturing.
• Familiarity with industry gear and spline specifications. I.e. ISO, AGMA, ANSI
• Strong understanding of product industrialization, APQP/PPAP, and FAIR
• Experience of operating within a global volume manufacturing environment and with teaching & mentoring gear and shaftmanufacturingprocesses/inspectionoperations
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt