B-52 / F130 Lifecycle Engineer
Rolls-Royce•Indianapolis, IN
•Hybrid
About The Position
To provide world-class technical support for in-service/delivered products and to influence maturity throughout the product life cycle to meet customer and business needs, ensuring Design Intent is met and to ensure the safe, reliable and cost-effective product attributes are defined and maintained by means of through life modelling of product reliability, deterioration mechanisms, costs and help implement robust & cost-effective solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 2+ years of relevant experience, OR Master's degree in Engineering, OR JD/PhD
- Must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for this role
- Willingness to travel infrequently on a scheduled and unscheduled basis.
Nice To Haves
- Experience and demonstrated capability in root cause investigation, including evidence-based methods
- Experience in safety investigations (Red Tops) involving Rolls-Royce products.
- Experience and knowledge of BR700-Series product line
- 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.
- Knowledge of components/ systems functionality and numerical methods
- Experience in support/lead cross-functional teams e.g. specialists, suppliers, customers, partners
Responsibilities
- Management of known and potential safety issues (SAR & RT) and appropriate involvement in safety boards as defined in Safety Management Plan.
- Provide technical support to help resolve technical queries and operational arisings- Lead Investigation of operational issues to establish root cause Introduce containment actions and recommend corrective actions
- Provide technical surveillance and quality assurance audits to support continuous product enhancement for customer satisfaction and business expectation.
- Develop and approve the technical content of technical publications/communications (used by OEM, build/commissioning/maintenance bases and customers) including acceptance limit development.
- Set reliability targets (such operational disruption metrics) based on historical data and monitor performance against targets.
- Predict future safety and reliability performance based on failure rates, adopting statistical techniques to support Numerical Risk Assessment, Parametric Distribution and fly forward analysis.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities by reviewing and maintaining life cycle engineering policies and any associated maintenance planning documentation.
- Manage any issues that affect the Maturity, Lifecycle Cost, Reliability and Maintainability and maintain Design Intent.
- Provide lifecycle technical data (build/in-service/decommissioning) and model/support modelling of through life performance, deterioration mechanisms and service attributes to create and maintain time on platform prediction, identify opportunities for optimization and support the generation of the Service Operation Validation Strategy.
- Prepare and deliver technical communications (e.g. presentation and/or reports) to platform provider, regulators, customers, internal stakeholder.
- Lead and integrate Health Monitoring system requirements.
- Identify requirements for new Health Monitoring System or capability.
- Ensure compliance with requirements specified by regulatory authorities and to adhere to technical and business requirements of internal & external stakeholders.
- Where delegated, act as the Technical Authority providing assurance on build, commissioning and maintenance activities.
- Gather in-service data and carry out continuous improvement by identifying Best Practice and Learning from Experience activities, feeding back into future programs and product design teams.
Benefits
- bonus
- employee support assistance
- employee discounts
- 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
- a long-term incentive plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
