Chief Engineer Mgr (L5) | Grand Prairie, TX | 14567

Lockheed Martin; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Flexible work arrangements

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Spending Accounts

Education Assistance

Job summary

Lockheed Martin's IAMD-AP program seeks a Program Chief Engineer to lead a Navy surface ship UAV, launcher, and fire control subsystem development. The role guides a fast-moving team through fielding milestones and ensures integration with modular payloads and RF components.

You will mentor cross-functional engineers, manage technical reviews, coordinate with USG customers, and maintain sound risk and safety margins to deliver robust system designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• CAM and manpower forecasting experience.
• Experience interfacing with the ENGX organization.
• Experience briefing external customers.
• Hardware development experience utilizing a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
• Available for occasional domestic travel.
• Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to meet capture, development, and rapid fielding milestones on schedule.
• Provide technical support and work with the USG customer.
• Guide IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and lifecycle reviews.
• Ensure program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective.
• Collaborate with Engineering Excellence management to ensure milestones are completed.
• Lead program technical reviews and participate in monthly E&T meetings and other activities.
• Communicate lessons learned and ensure synergy across Chief Engineer staff.

Skills

Program leadership

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional coordination

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MBSE environment

Job description

Standard Job Description

IAMD-AP is seeking a Program Chief Engineer to support a Navy surface ship based Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and Launcher development program. The role will lead a fast-moving team for a Navy development program in fielding the air vehicle, launcher, and fire control subsystems to the surface ship fleet. The role will also lead the continuous R&D integration and development activities for the modular payloads, including radio frequency (RF) components for continuous capability improvements. The role will report to the IAMD-AP Chief Engineer programmatically and be expected to work closely with the other members of the IAMD-AP Chief Engineer staff as well as the Advanced Programs and customer community.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing technical leadership that enables the team to meet and demonstrate all capture, development, and rapid fielding milestones on schedule
• Providing technical support and working with the U.S. Government (USG) customer
• Guiding IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews
• Ensuring program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective
• Collaborating with Engineering Excellence management to ensure program milestones are successfully completed
• Supporting and/or leading program technical reviews and participating in monthly E&T meetings, staff meetings, and other critical program activities
• Communicating lessons learned and ensuring synergy across the Chief Engineer staff

Accountable for all aspects of engineering and technology activities within a program, program area, or line of business to ensure mission milestones and business objectives are met. Serves as the primary technical authority / technical interface with internal program management and external customers. Ensures proposals have sound technical solutions and schedules and drive affordability. Leads a technical team of cross functional engineers to ensure successful proper system/product development and execution. Evaluates and ensures complex issues are resolved in a cost effective, innovative way. Champion mission success and drive a mission success culture. Directs a team into exploration of new problem solution areas with novel concepts and approaches, guiding scope definition and prioritizing problems for investigation. Determine appropriate risk posture and develop mitigation strategies for complex projects. Ensure selected designs are robust and include appropriate margins to facilitate safety, performance, producibility and operational availability/supportability. Ensures program plans and technical baselines are consistent with Program Control processes and Modern Engineering Practices. Responsible for key decision making that impact businesses, the failure to achieve the objectives result in critical impact of program capabilities. Ensures identification of lessons learned, and corrective action are initiated and implemented to improve future and ongoing programs. Provides technical mentoring and career development support of team and allocates resources effectively. Leads and directs the technical execution efforts of the program or LOB.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidate must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience
• Candidate must have CAM and manpower forecasting experience
• Candidate must have wide experience interfacing with the ENGX organization
• Candidate must have prior experience briefing external customers
• Candidate must have hardware development experience utilizing a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
• Candidate must be available for occasional domestic travel.
• Candidate must have a Secret clearance

Desired Skills

• An advanced degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is desired
• Experience with Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) system development, integration, and testing. This must include experience with developing all aspects including the air vehicle, the launcher, RF systems, and the control systems.
• Familiarity and knowledge of the US Navy Surface Ship Systems customers and products is strongly desired. Familiarity with Electronic Warfare concepts is desired.
• Experience in a functional leadership role such as Engineering Technology Manager (ETM)
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience in missile design/development and flight testing is desired.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $148300.00 - $275500.00

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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered:

Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
• For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.