LibertyWorks Safety and Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: LibertyWorks Safety and Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Full time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN/Hybrid - 3 Office Days/Week)

To ensure, at all phases of the product lifecycle, that the Safety & Reliability attributes of the product are understood and that the risks arising from it are managed to an acceptable level. Contribute to the capability acquisition / improvement as well as to the technical and process governance of the S&R capability.

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.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving 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

• Understand the product's degradation and failure mechanisms, their associated consequences and the hazards they contribute to. Where applicable, develop and deploy models to characterize them using deterministic or probabilistic / data mining techniques.
• Lead and conduct the assessment of new and derivative design solutions/architectures, product operation and maintenance practices to evaluate their impact on product Safety & Reliability. Develop and deploy models at component, system and asset levels in order to characterize the product's Safety & Reliability attributes. Support the associated part / function classification activities.
• Analyse and quantify risks associated with human / system interaction addressing both Human Error and the hazards arising from errors committed by personnel and also Hazards to personnel arising from system / equipment malfunction, damage or features inherent in the design.
• Extract actionable insights from these analyses and generate improvement proposals in order to influence the product's design, its development and its in-service management.
• Support product development and entry into service phases through the coordination and/or provision of Safety & Reliability documentation (e.g. FHA, FMECA, SSA, TLD, safety class analysis, fault schedules, OCL, etc).
• Support product in-service phase through the coordination and/or execution of the S&R work required to address specific in-service issues or concerns (e.g. SAR, Red Top) and to through the support Periodic Safety Review activities.
• Support the FRACAS or relevant event management system both in development and in-service phases.
• Provide mentoring, expert guidance and authoritative leadership to engineers in the same technical discipline or to related multi-disciplinary teams.
• Identify (both inside and outside the company) new approaches and techniques that enhance the efficiency and business impact of the discipline and capitalize on these opportunities to advance the state-of-the-art. Maintain breadth of knowledge to understand interactions with related areas.
• Derive lessons learnt, identify and develop improvements in tools, methods and processes and support their globalization.
• Plan, technically lead and coordinate the overall S&R work effort for a programme or product. Lead safety case structuring, coordination and integration of safety case documents. Support product development, entry into service and in-service phases through the coordination, provision and update of safety and reliability documentation (e.g. FHA, FMECA, SSA, TLD, safety class analysis, fault schedules, OCL, etc.).
• Coordinate with customers, suppliers and regulatory authorities on Safety