Senior IT Project Manager (Network Towers)

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager (Network Tower)

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN  (Onsite/Hybrid role)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior IT Project Manager to join our Network team based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Digital and IT Tech Platforms– Network Services team require an experienced Network Project Manager to manage network infrastructure related projects from inception through closure. 

The Smart Refresh project is a multi-year project to refresh network infrastructure across a number of manufacturing and office locations within the North American region.

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

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Manage and coordinate the overall solution and activities of all technical resources, suppliers, business stakeholders, and business users (including requirements gathering and design activities), ensuring consolidated delivery across all suppliers by tracking and driving their progress throughout the life of the project.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and lead the project team to meet time, cost, and quality targets, taking appropriate action where team performance deviates. 

• Ensure that project, quality, and integrated program plans are prepared, provide regular consolidated reports to stakeholders, maintain status of the plan to ensure there is alignment to achieve the required objectives, and facilitate all project and steering board meetings to ensure stakeholders are informed of project activities.

• Monitor and control financial management plan, resources, revenue, and capital costs against the project budget and manage expectations of all project stakeholders. 

• Identify, assess, and manage issues, risks, and escalations with stakeholders internally and with any suppliers, using standard project management documentation such as a RAID log.

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:

• Associates degree in technical or related field with 7+ years of project management experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree in technical or related field with 5+ years of engineering experience, OR
• Master’s degree in technical or related field with 3+ years of engineering experience, OR
• PhD in degree in technical or related field
• To be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience managing Network infrastructure projects
• Ability to drive business roadmap activities
• Organized, demonstrates being in control, and takes charge
• Manage a team of technical subject matter experts
• Good communicator
• Experience of working in a complex working environment

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.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date:  June 30th, 2026

Information Technology04 Jun 2026; 00:06$119,520 - $194,220-AnnuallyIndianapolis, 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.