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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company seeks a Manufacturing Engineer Senior to bridge design engineering and production in an advanced aerospace environment. You will shape processes, layouts, and integration strategies for tomorrow’s aircraft using automation and digital work instructions.
You will influence decisions with MB E methodologies, support design verification and V-Model compliance, and contribute to continuous improvement across the Skunk Works facility.
Standard Job Description Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, the home of the legendary Skunk Works® transforms visionary aircraft concepts into reality. We are world-renowned for building the finest military platforms, a reputation earned through relentless research, breakthrough design, and low-cost, high-performance manufacturing strategies. Our mission-critical customers count on us to keep their fleets Ahead of Ready throughout every phase of the product life-cycle. As a Manufacturing Engineer Senor in the Skunk Works®, you'll be at the nexus of imagination and execution. Your ingenuity will shape the way tomorrow's aircraft are built, while your creativity will spark continuous improvement across the factory floor. If you thrive on pushing the envelope, love collaborating with elite engineering teams, and want to see your ideas fly‑literally‑this is the place to make an immediate, high-impact contribution. In this role, you will immediately impact the business with your ingenuity, creativity, and ideas that will be the catalyst for future business. If you are craving an opportunity where you are invited to be passionate, push the envelope, and think outside of the box, this opportunity may be just for you. We ensure those we serve always stay Ahead of Ready. As a Manufacturing Engineer in Skunk Works®, you will play a critical role as liaison between our design engineering teams and the production team responsible for building tomorrow's future in an advanced manufacturing and technology facility. Performs in a collaborative environment to develop and implement manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, fabrication, and material handling. Drives adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement. Creates and analyzes 3D based model data environment to optimize manufacturing process and digital work instructions. Leverages understanding of materials and automatic processes to define operations procedures and build sequences to drive operational excellence. Evaluates performance (including IoT devices, etc.) of equipment and tools to verify their efficiency and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure operational excellence. Leverages factory data to develop statistical process control approaches and integrates reporting and data analytics solutions for continuous improvement. Provides input to product design regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques. What's In It For You: