Supplier Technical Assurance Manager

Location: Indianapolis

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** Job Description
***
* Job Title:

** Supplier Technical Assurance Manager
** Working Pattern:
** Hybrid – 3 in office days a week
** Working

Location:

** Indianapolis, INAs the Supplier Technical Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for leading the manufacturing engineering and product quality activity for the supply chain teams to enable supplier performance.  This role will also provide technical / quality leadership and expertise both internally and at suppliers, to define and deploy strategies that drive quality and supplier improvement at pace as well as act as technical authority, assuring the initial and continuing capability of the method of production to produce product conforming to design intent, and ensuring the resolution of technical issues / problems / arisings, to meet business and customer requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time (SQCD).  

Additionally, you will integrate all manufacturing engineering & quality activities across the product lifecycle and through the supply chain.

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  part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

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:**
* ** HSE
- ** Responsible for ensuring that all operating processes within the area of accountability are in full compliance to Health, Safety & Environmental standards and meet the expectations of the Zero Harm program.
* ** 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.  Champion product safety and promote a product safety culture in the supply chain, ensuring learning related to product safety is embedded across Rolls-Royce and the supply chain.
* ** Quality** - Lead a culture of zero defects within the area of accountability.  On behalf of the supplier management teams, work with underperforming suppliers to drive high impact quality improvements, using tools such as APQP & ASQ.  Ensure that manufacturing processes and methods of manufacture within the suppliers are developed and deployed to support Right First Time manufacture.  In conjunction with the SQM, contribute to sourcing decisions by performing pre-selection assessments (ESCCA).

Ensure suppliers conform to Rolls-Royce and Regulatory requirements eg SABRe,  and AS13100.
* ** Improvement** - Coach the community in the use of RRPS (Lean), DMAIC (Six Sigma) and Systems Engineering tools.  Ensure compliance to all relevant company, legislative and technical policies and standards.  Drive & coach supplier maturity development, using tools such as the Supplier Maturity Assessment tool kit.
* ** Technical Authority** - Specify Manufacturing Engineering and process requirements and make technical decisions in relation to the area of accountability.  Chair the Control Authority(s) governing change for area of accountability, subject to appropriate delegation.  In conjunction with the SQM, conduct technical surveillance actvity within the supply chain (eg Critical Part Audits, ESCCAs, etc).
* ** Planning** - Deploy mechanisms to govern the achievement of Manufacturing Engineering and Quality deliverables, report status, and ensure issues and risks are resolved to meet project timescales.  Manage resource plans and budgets.
* ** Develop capability** - Buy-off the production readiness of new manufacturing capabilities or methods of manufacture for new parts and assemblies.  Develop numerate, real…