Technical Lead - Life Cycle and Safety

Job Description

Technical Lead – Lifecycle and Safety, T56/Helicopters

Indianapolis, IN

As the Technical Lead of Lifecycle and Safety for T56/501K Program and the Helicopters Program, you will support the T56/Helo Chief Lifecycle Engineer and be responsible for leading and line managing a functional team of lifecycle, safety, reliability, and fleet/MRO/customer technical support engineers to deliver fleet product safety and service solutions to cost, schedule and quality for both programs.

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 specialisation, we also offer freedom to cross-specialise 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:
 

• Line manage the engineering team comprised of Lifecycle Engineering, Design Safety & Reliability, and Service Operations to effectively and efficiently:
• Execute safety processes, risk assessments, root cause analysis, engine investigation, containment activities, corrective actions, lessons learned, and deliver high quality engineering reports and effective customer communications
• Evaluate in-service engines and hardware with conditions outside of current manual limits (TVs), support depot-level technical queries (TQs) or issues, and initiate technical publication changes
• Contribute to the formation of cost-effective technical policies to resolve operational issues and to meet life cycle cost targets, including repair development and capability        
• Ensure proper communications with the customer field service teams and Defense Operations Center on technical issues/queries including customer program reviews and technical integration meetings
• Manage workload, prioritization, resource allocation, and budget for the combined T56/Helo Lifecycle & Safety Team and ensure work is performed to the appropriate technical standards/processes, to the required time frames
• Ensure lifecycle and safety engineering load and capacity are consistent with combined programs budgets
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, coaching and mentoring to assigned engineers to enable them to be their best
• Work with the core function Capability Leads to identify training, skills gaps or competency needs with the team and provide skill development opportunities
• Champion engineering performance metrics, including commitment to continuous improvement
• Represent the T56/Helo Chief Lifecycle Engineer (as required) internally and with customers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Math or Engineering Technology and 5+ years of experience or
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, Math or Engineering Technology and 3+ years of experience
• PhD or JD
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident to be eligible for consideration

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• Knowledge of key processes required to deliver product safety and service attributes
• Experience and demonstrated capability in root cause investigation, including evidence-based methods
• Experience in safety investigations (Red Tops/SARs) involving Rolls-Royce products.
• Experience and knowledge of T56/501K product line and/or Helicopters product line, regulatory framework and customers
• 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.
• Experience in managing/leading/coaching people and teams to successful outcomes and customer satisfaction
• Demons