Test Facility Mechanical Engineer

Test Facility Mechanical Engineer

Working Pattern:
Onsite
Working

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

As a Test Facility Mechanical Engineer for Rolls‑Royce you’ll work with all aspects of test facility life cycles. The test facility lifecycle consists of work related to new facility creation, conversion and adaptation of test equipment, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, capability improvements, and facility decommissioning activities.

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.

• Evaluates, selects and applies standard engineering techniques, procedures and criteria using judgment in making minor adaptation and modifications to existing test equipment.
• Applies, sizes, selects, installs, uses, and troubleshoots process control systems, load absorbers, valves, piping, fittings, tubing, pumps, motors, pneumatic systems, fuel systems, cooling systems, and hydraulic systems.
• Creates specifications, cost/schedule estimates, obtains vendor quotations, and initiates procurement/fabrication process.
• Performs job oversight during the test facility conversions or test equipment installations. Provides direction for internal personnel and/or contracted personnel. Organizes safety meetings related to installation efforts. Coordinates to ensure installations do not interfere with other testing that may be in progress or planned.
• Documents work through concept sketches, layouts, drawings, reports, memos, best practice guides, and regular status updates/emails.
• Developing solutions to routine technical problems of limited scope. Working without constant or direct oversight, but under the general guidance of the team manager or more senior engineers.

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.

• An Associate’s degree in Engineering or Technology with 3+ years of engineering experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology with 1 year+ of engineering experience OR;
• Master’s degree in Engineering or Technology OR;
• JD/PhD
• In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires US Citizenship

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…