Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Single Crystal Casting Foundry

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Single Crystal Casting Foundry

Working Pattern: Onsite

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

In this role, you will guide Manufacturing Engineering activities across the full product lifecycle for single crystal, ensuring compliance with all company, regulatory, and technical standards while driving step-change improvements in foundry performance.

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:

• Act as the Technical Authority - Specify Manufacturing Engineering and process requirements and make technical decisions in relation to the area of accountability and chair the Control Authority(s) governing change for area of accountability, subject to appropriate delegation.
• Own foundry process capability standards, qualification strategies, and revalidation plans.
• Quality - Promote a culture of zero defects within the area of accountability and ensure that manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are developed and deployed to support Right First-Time manufacture; coaching the community in the use of RRPS, RCCA and Systems Engineering tools
• Ensure robust, capable investment casting processes including wax pattern production, grain control, solidification, and defect mitigation.
• Lead technical strategy for single crystal yield improvement, defect reduction and process robustness.
• Partner with Materials, Quality, and Design Engineering to align casting process capability with design intent and material requirements.
• Improvements - Identify, evaluate, and govern the requirements for improvements and innovations in manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within their area of accountability.
• Deploy capability - Maintain and/or govern Production Technical Packages (technical instructions, programs, tooling, etc.) for all parts/assemblies which clearly define the manufacturing process whilst ensuring manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are capable of meeting and continuing to meet requirements for quality, cost, delivery rate and lead-time.
• Product Safety - Responsible for ensuring that product safety risks are understood and mitigated to meet the required safety levels and reduce the safety risks so far as is reasonably practicable and champion product safety and promote a product safety culture in the supply chain, ensuring learning related to product safety is embedded.
• Drive measurable improvements in foundry performance including yield, scrap, CoNQ, throughput, takt adherence, and lead time.
• Identify, evaluate, and govern investments in process improvements, automation, digital tools, and technology insertion.
• Translate technical improvements into sustained operational results through standardization and control.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Manufacturing Engineers, building depth in investment casting and single crystal expertise.
• Set clear expectations linking technical rigor to operational outcomes.
• Act as a mentor and role model for disciplined problem solving, accountability, and 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 Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, OR;
• Master's degree with 3+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, OR;
• JD/PhD, OR;
• In lieu of a degree 9+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident to be considered for this role

Preferred:

• Demonstrated leadership experience in investment casting and/or single crystal foundry operations
• Proven track record of driving measurable operations performance improvements in yield, scrap, cost, or delivery
• Experience serving as a technical authority or leading process governance for complex casting operations
• Demonstrated use of data-driven problem solving methods such as Six Sigma, RCCA, and statistical process control
• Experience with manufacturing change including technology insertion, new product introduction, process requalification, or capacity expansion
• Knowledge of aerospace materials, tolerances, GD&T, and Design for Manufacture principles
• Strong mentorship, interpersonal, and communication skills with experience developing engineers

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 position if appropriate

Job Expires: 3/16/26

Manufacturing Engineering $119,520 - $194,220-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.