Job Title: Production Planning & Control Manager (Manufacturing Operations)

Working Pattern: Full Time (onsite 9/80 schedule)

Working location: Indianapolis, IN

As a Production Planning & Control Manager for Rolls-Royce, you’ll Support S&OP in evaluating the impact of demand changes including preparation of response, undertaking scenario planning, as required, to evaluate the impact of potential future load scenarios. You’ll ensure changes that impact on the supplier/customer are accepted and that the team has robust & credible plans in place that meet customer requirement and are deployed to support delivery. Identifying and driving actions required to deliver total load on Turbines Manufacturing while ensuring awareness within the value stream of delivery issues, mitigations, and recovery plans. You’ll also work closely with the Manufacturing Manager and Manufacturing Engineering Manager to ensure delivery requirements are met.

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.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you gives 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

• Ensure the ERP system reflects current schedule requirements. Drive ERP compliance with the team, using the standard, mandated Work Instruction, to ensure robustness of plans through high integrity
• Ensure supply chain risks that have potential to impact delivery are identified, prioritized and escalated, where appropriate, within the Turbines
• Manage and lead a team of MRPC professionals ensuring alignment to generic roles and development of competency in role to the required
• Drive inventory optimization while ensuring customer deliveries are being met.
• Deploy standard inventory planning processes in the management of excess / surplus & ensure adherence to stock audit
• Support appropriate CoP's and process councils, ensuring sharing of best practice and continuous improvement of standard processes. Help identify, document and deliver areas for supply chain
• Ensure appropriate scheduling and resourcing of standard P&C related assessments and closure of related actions arising. Support IPPR assessments

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 behaviors 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:

• Associate’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain with 7+ years of Supply Chain experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain with 5+ years of Supply Chain experience, OR
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain with 3+ years of Supply Chain experience, OR
• JD/PhD, OR
• 9+ years Supply Chain Experience in lieu of degree
• In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Previous experience of managing teams and people
• Demonstrated ability to deliver under challenging circumstances
• Understanding of different roles/functions/processes (e.g., Manufacturing, Purchase, NPI, ME)
• Implemented improvement activity, participated in dealing with change (e.g., process)
• Experience of production planning and control
• Knowledge of and working experience with MRP
• MS Office or equivalent working skills 
• Effective communication, collaboration, and cross-functional problem-solving skills, as well as a commitment to core company behaviors (putting safety first, doing the right thing, keeping it simple, and making a difference).

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

A 9/80 compressed work week means an employee works 80 hours over nine days in a two‑week period. Generally, this means working nine hours Monday ‑ Thursday, with alternating eight‑hour Fridays and “off” Fridays.

Relocation assistance is not being provided for this role at this time.

Closing Date: September 23, 2026

Pay Range

Pay ranges for remote employees are based on the state where the employee resides and may vary from the posted range.

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.