Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Single Crystal Casting Foundry

Job Description

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,…