Job Description
Job Title: Test Facility Mechanical Engineer
Working Pattern: Onsite
Working location: Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis, IN
As a Test Facility Mechanical Engineer for Rolls-Royce you’ll work with all aspects of test facility lifecycles. The test facility lifecycle consists of work related to new facility creation, conversion and adaptation of test equipment, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, capability improvements, and facility decommissioning activities.
This is an exciting new position where you’ll work with test engineering and project groups to help ensure Rolls-Royce has the test facility capabilities ready when they are needed. You will design and deliver mechanical test equipment for; gas turbine whole engine/subsystem/component, hybrid electric propulsion, thermal management, directed energy, and energy storage system testing.
You will also perform stress, strain, thermal, and life calculations or analyses to ensure equipment design is fit for purpose while doing 3D modeling and drafting work with participation as a team member in operational improvement projects.
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.
Be 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:
Here you will have the opportunity to work on the following:
- Evaluates, selects and applies standard engineering techniques, procedures and criteria using judgment in making minor adaptation and modifications to existing test equipment.
- Applies, sizes, selects, installs, uses, and troubleshoots process control systems, load absorbers, valves, piping, fittings, tubing, pumps, motors, pneumatic systems, fuel systems, cooling systems, and hydraulic systems.
- Creates specifications, cost/ schedule estimates, obtains vendor quotations, and initiates procurement/fabrication process.
- Performs job oversight during the test facility conversions or test equipment installations. Provides direction for internal personnel and/or contracted personnel. Organizes safety meetings related to installation efforts. Coordinates to ensure installations do not interfere with other testing that may be in progress or planned.
- Documents work through concept sketches, layouts, drawings, reports, memos, best practice guides, and regular status updates/emails
- Developing solutions to routine technical problems of limited scope. Working without constant or direct oversight, but under the general guidance of the team manager or more senior engineers
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 Requirements :
- An Associate’s degree in Engineering or Technology with 3+ years of engineering experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology with 1 year+ of engineering experience OR;
- Master’s degree in Engineering or Technology OR;
- JD/PhD
- In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance, which requires US Citizenship
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.
For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.
Job Expires: 3/6/26
Relocation is available for this position if appropriate
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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.
