LiftSystem Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer - Specialist

LiftSystem Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer - Specialist

Indianapolis, IN

Rolls-Royce Corporation is at the heart of securing the future growth of the Defence business. We are delivering tomorrow's technology fast, by bringing together the company's best engineers, program managers, and business professionals. Working in partnership with Governments, primes, and new technology companies across the globe, we deliver future solutions, new and innovative power and propulsion concepts, technology, and applications to meet the customers emerging requirements.

The Systems Engineering, Validation & Verification group (SEVV) is recruiting Systems Engineering & Verification Engineers to fulfill exciting roles across our Defence Programs. In all areas, these roles involve working with a range of key business stakeholders to support the delivery of key program milestones, enabling the delivery of our Defence strategy for the next 50 years.

As an LiftSystem Systems Engineering & Verification Engineer, you will plan, coordinate, and execute key technical activities for the LiftSystem program in support of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter. As part of this role, you will be expected to interface across a number of stakeholders both internally and externally to extract and understand technical requirements to develop potential solutions which can be used to serve business and customer needs. As part of this team, you will explore and deploy Systems Engineering practices within the company to assist in the understanding of potential business and technical architectures and solutions.

To ensure we remain at the forefront of our industry, Rolls-Royce has a team of over 17,000 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 specialization, we also offer options to cross-specialize and develop skills across a number of different areas. Create an enduring legacy. Join us and you'll develop your skills and expertise to the very highest levels, working in an international environment for a company known the world over for excellence and innovation.

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

• Lead Systems Engineering activities across the entire life-cycle. Integrate with and provide Systems Engineering coaching or training to engineers from other functions.

• Facilitate the elicitation, maturation, and validation of stakeholder requirements including customer, business, and technical to ensure robust problem and solution space understanding.

• Develop the System Engineering strategy for the project and ensure this is reflected in the project governance and project master schedule.

• Establish and maintain an appropriate information structure for the project (Customer, Business, System, Sub-System, and Component) and develop/maintain associated management plans.

• Work with the System Design team to ensure product requirements are understood and requirement trades are defined. Understand repercussions of potential system definition against the wider system/business.

• Provide project management support to various work packages within the Whole Engine team

• Represent Rolls-Royce as required on specific customer and partner working groups related to the project.

• Ensure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain, and timescale) are identified, managed, and escalated in accordance with risk management plan.

• Develop product verification strategies and compliance statements.

• Develop and manage engine verification, certification/qualification plans and programs.

• Deploy and leverage Systems Engineering tools, such as Cameo (MBSE) and DOORS, on agreed programs.

• The ability to deal with ambiguity, take decisions and make recommendations with minimal data is a key skill, as is the ability to quickly understand the key technical issues in potentially complex technical problems on unfamiliar subjects.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 5+ years of relevant engineering experience; OR

• Master's degree in Engineering with 3+ years of relevant engineering experience; OR

• JD/PhD in Engineering.

• Systems Engineering or Development Engineering experience.

• Must be a US citizen.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a New Product Introduction (NPI) program

• Experience with US Department of Defense (DoD) programs and DoD customer interfacing experience

• Experience with Systems Engineering tools, such as Cameo and DOORS

• Demonstrated project planning and management experience and ability to work without supervision on an extended, multifunctional Engineering project team.

• Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills.

• Ability to deal with ambiguity.

• Gas turbine engine installation, verification, and performance experience.

• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.

• Knowledge of commercial engine certification/military engine qualification.

Pioneer the next generation of innovation. Join us and you'll develop your skills and expertise to the very highest levels, working in an international environment for a company known the world over for its brilliance.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realize their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.

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.

Relocation assistance is available for this position if applicable.

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.