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A Day In The Life of an Engineer working at Rolls Royce

August 24, 2021 at 1:30pm ET

About This Event

Sam Tilakasiri is a Mechanical Engineer with a 10+ year experience in the aerospace industry as a diverse engineer and program manager at Rolls-Royce.  In his current role as IPT, Lead – Defense Future Programs, Sam functions as the business leader for new technology programs within Defense, pioneering new technologies and new ways of working to deliver exciting results.

Sam has project management experience on a number of projects, working across Germany, the UK, Spain and Singapore including fundamental project management experience (schedule, cost, risk, change) as well as preparing business cases for capital expenditure and leading cross-functional teams.  His main engineering experience is as Systems Engineer and Validation & Verification.  This includes leading verification teams, executing complex tests (Fan Blade Off tests), managing requirements on new projects, deploying systems engineering and developing new technologies for testing.

Sam has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London (2010) and a Postgraduate certificate in Aerospace from the University of West England (2014), which was sponsored by Rolls-Royce.  He has been accredited as a Chartered Engineer as part of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) since 2015.  Sam also used to be the IMechE Young Member Representative for Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany and is currently mentoring young MEs to achieve chartership themselves.

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