Life Cycle Engineer – Naval Services – GT Modules

Job Title: Life Cycle Engineer – Naval Services – GT Modules

Working Pattern: Fulltime - Hybrid

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

To provide in-service support of the Naval Gas Turbine Modules. This role is responsible for leading engineering investigations (EI), safety related “red top” investigations, and resolving customer technical issues.  While also supporting the development and drafting of technical publications, including technical manuals, service bulletins, technical queries, and technical variances.

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.

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:

With this attractive opportunity, as part of the Engineering for Services (EfS) team, the Life Cycle engineer will provide in-service product engineering support to internal and external customers on naval marine gas turbine engines, and associated GT packages, under the technical authority of the Chief Life Cycle Engineer. Additionally, this role will contribute to sustainment initiatives including, but not limited, to product lifing analysis, data driven equipment health prognostics, and as-maintained product configuration management.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage and execute Root Cause Analysis of Engineering Investigations.
• Creation of high quality technical engineering reports.
• Creation and delivery of effective customer presentations within the Safety Process framework.
• Acting point of contact for both external customers and internal RR field service teams on technical issues, including occasional off-hour support and travel.
• Develop Service Bulletins and Technical Publication updates as required, or serve as peer reviewer for others on the team.
• Support in-service customer program reviews, and/or technical integration meetings.
• Identify and execute improvements to process, tools, and methods for Service Engineering to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Liaise with the Engineering Leadership and System Design Engineer(s) to drive design improvements from issues or opportunities identified from in-service experience.

Who we’re looking for:

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering and 2+ years experience, or
• Masters Degree in Engineering, or
• JD/PhD
• Engineering experience in the area(s) of gas turbine, industrial, or marine machinery accessory systems (such as fuel, lubrication, fire suppression, cooling water, ventilation, support structures, electrical, control, etc.).
• Must be US Citizen to be considered for this role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or familiarity with US Naval Surface Ship Gas Turbine Modules (Ship Service Gas Turbine Generator Sets and Propulsion Gas Turbines).
• Experience in the marine industry, covering technical support, technical documentation, problem-solving, Naval standards, and Mil-Specifications
• Experience with electrical power generation equipment.
• Self-motivated, confident individual with strong interpersonal, written and oral communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to make well-informed, rational decisions and demonstrate problem-solving skills within organizational policies and procedures.
• Willingness to travel infrequently on a scheduled and unscheduled basis. Comfortable working periodically in an industrial, shipyard, or shipboard environment.

What we offer:

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.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

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Engineering for Services $90,985 - $136,477-Annually Indianapolis, IN

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.