Rolls-Royce plc

Production Planning & Control Manager (Manufacturing Operations)

Rolls-Royce plc$107K — $174K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree in Engineering, Business, or Supply Chain plus 7+ years of Supply Chain experience OR Bachelor's degree with 5+ years OR Master's degree with 3+ years OR JD/PhD OR 9+ years of Supply Chain experience without degree
  • Eligibility to work in the U.S. required.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure ERP system accurately reflects scheduling requirements and drive compliance across the team
  • Identify and escalate supply chain risks that may affect delivery
  • Lead and manage a team of MRPC professionals to align with designated roles and develop competencies
  • Drive optimization of inventory while meeting customer delivery demands
  • Implement standard inventory planning processes for managing excess and ensure compliance with stock audits
  • Participate in CoP and process councils to promote best practices and continuous improvements
  • Schedule and resource P&C assessments with closure of related actions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards package including base pay and discretionary bonuses
  • Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and AD&D coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
  • Employee Assistance Program and Paid Time Off
  • Paid parental and family care leave and tuition reimbursement
  • Structured work schedule with a 9/80 compressed work week
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

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: July 31, 2026

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Job Posting Date

17 Jul 2026; 00:07

Pay Range

$107,520 - $174,720-Annually

Location:

Indianapolis, IN

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.

About Rolls-Royce plc

Rolls-Royce plc is a British multinational engineering company that designs, manufactures, and distributes power systems for aviation, marine, and energy markets. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in London, England. Rolls-Royce is a leading provider of power systems for civil and military aircraft, and is also a major supplier of power systems for marine vessels. The company's energy division provides power systems for the oil and gas industry, as well as for power generation and other industrial applications. Rolls-Royce has operations in over 50 countries and employs over 50,000 people worldwide.
Learn more about Rolls-Royce plc
Size
44,000 employees
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