AE Defense - Component Design Engineer Transmissions & Structures
Rolls-Royce is a leading company known for its innovation in power systems, and they are seeking an AE Defense - Component Design Engineer for their Indianapolis location. The role involves mechanical design of components for gas turbine engines, including gears and structures, and requires strong technical knowledge in design methodologies and cross-discipline engineering concepts.
Responsibilities
- Design Engineer will operate as part of a broader AE Design team that will stretch the designer to apply their skills to components beyond the immediate needs of the gearbox mechanicals, including but not limited to externals (brackets, tubes, harnesses, etc.), gearbox structures and lubrication systems
- Support of supply chain efforts to procure hardware from multiple suppliers including concession consultation and execution of DARs
- Provide engineering support of development and/or service related hardware issues including engine Investigations and Technical Variance consultation
- Deliver Design Solutions to the AE Program within the DTA Process, which includes (but is not limited to) preparing technical presentations and documents, creating design concepts, optimizing concepts to a final definition, supporting creation of drawings, delivering hardware for validation and release to the field
- Participate in or Lead Root Cause and Corrective Action teams
- Hardware condition assessment following engine and/or rig testing, and documentation thereof
- Interface with both internal and external customers
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 1+ years of experience in design engineering OR
- Master's degree in Engineering with 0 years of experience in design engineering OR
- PhD in Engineering with 0 years of experience in design engineering
- In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires US Citizenship
- Experience working with gas turbines
- Experience with PCB process
- Orchestrate Design Technical Reviews (DTA) and communicate solutions to the project/customer
- Create hardware design concepts and perform trade studies to optimize hardware for gears, shafting, structures, sumps and bearings
- Experience with ANSYS Workbench for quick component level assessments
- Experience with compressor component design methods and practices
- Experience working with Siemens NX and/or Teamcenter
- Experience with GD&T
- Experience with computer programming and design optimization
Benefits
- Bonus
- Employee support assistance
- Employee discounts
- 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.
- 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.
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