Supplier Technical Assurance Manager

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Job Title: Supplier Technical Assurance Manager

Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 in office days a week

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Location:

Indianapolis, IN

Posting Date: 19 Dec 2025

Closing Date: January 14, 2026

• 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 activity 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 time methods for capturing process capability, and ensure it is available and acted on within the supply chain and in new product design.
• Deploy capability: Govern production technical packages within the supply chain to ensure business outcomes are achieved. Ensure manufacturing processes and/or methods of manufacture within the business and suppliers are capable of meeting and continuing to meet requirements for quality, cost, delivery rate and lead time. Co‑ordinate the technical support to suppliers such that problems and arisings are resolved in a structured and timely manner.
• Deploy standards: Work with the supply chain and subject matter experts in Rolls‑Royce to drive processes towards identified consistent best practice.
• Build external relationships: Manage, develop and maintain effective relationships within internal and external supply chain, regulatory bodies and applicable industry forums, ensuring that requirements are understood and delivered. Coach when required to deliver a successful outcome in line with Rolls‑Royce's requirements.

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.

• Associate degree and 7+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Supplier Management, or Procurement OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Supplier Management,…