ChiEngineering Senior Manager - L6

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 183,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation in the United States seeks a Chief Engineering Senior Manager to lead PAC-3 Evolutionary Development Integration across Patriot, IBCS, and THAAD/MSE programs. You will guide cross-functional engineers through system analyses, flight tests, software development, and reviews with customers and subcontractors.

The role requires a strong leadership track record, program management expertise, and the ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM).
• 8+ years of proven leadership experience of large multi-functional teams.
• Plan and lead technical efforts for program capture and development, hardware/software development, and verification activities.
• Lead complex missile algorithm, fire control, and tactical software development efforts and QA activities.
• Familiarity with Engineering 8L Technology organization.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with internal and external customers.
• Secret clearance within past five years and ability to travel domestically.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and technology activities within a program to meet milestones and business objectives.
• Serve as technical authority with internal PM and external customers.
• Ensure sound technical solutions, schedules, and affordability.
• Direct cross-functional engineers to ensure robust system/product development.
• Mentor and develop team members and allocate resources.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Communication

Agile methods

Risk management

Domestic travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Secret clearance (within last 5 years)

Tools

PAC-3 missile systems

Job description

Standard Job Description Chief Engineering Senior Manager position to fill the PAC-3 Evolutionary Development Integration programs role across the Patriot, Integrated Air & Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), and THAAD/MSE Integration Programs. The candidate will have a proven ability to lead technical efforts for complex weapon system development, integration, test, and fielding activities across fire control, launcher, and missile products. This position requires excellent leadership skills and the ability to coordinate with internal and external customers to ensure mission success. Demonstration of all the tenants of Full Spectrum Leadership in previous assignments is critical. Candidate must possess experience and initiative to ensure technical leadership and support is provided for the development and production processes. The candidate will provide leadership to the team to achieve successful demonstration of program development milestones to include program technical reviews with customer and subcontractors, system analyses and algorithm development, flight tests, software development, system integration and test, Software Functional Qualification Test (FQT) and Functional Configuration Audit (FCA). The successful candidate will programmatically report to the PAC-3 LTIAMD Director and be expected to work closely with the other members of both the LTIAMD and UTIAMD Chief Engineering staff to ensure synergy across tasks and to communicate lessons learned. Standard Job Description Chief Engineering Senior Manager position to fill the PAC-3 Evolutionary Development Integration programs role across the Patriot, Integrated Air & Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), and THAAD/MSE Integration Programs. The candidate will have a proven ability to lead technical efforts for complex weapon system development, integration, test, and fielding activities across fire control, launcher, and missile products. This position requires excellent leadership skills and the ability to coordinate with internal and external customers to ensure mission success. Demonstration of all the tenants of Full Spectrum Leadership in previous assignments is critical. Candidate must possess experience and initiative to ensure technical leadership and support is provided for the development and production processes. The candidate will provide leadership to the team to achieve successful demonstration of program development milestones to include program technical reviews with customer and subcontractors, system analyses and algorithm development, flight tests, software development, system integration and test, Software Functional Qualification Test (FQT) and Functional Configuration Audit (FCA). The successful candidate will programmatically report to the PAC-3 LTIAMD Director and be expected to work closely with the other members of both the LTIAMD and UTIAMD Chief Engineering staff to ensure synergy across tasks and to communicate lessons learned. 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM), or related field
• 8+ years of proven leadership experience of large multi-functional teams
• Candidate must possess ability to plan and lead the technical efforts associated with program capture and development efforts, program Hardware and Software Development, Qualification activities, and Requirements Verification/Validation activities.
• Candidate must possess a demonstrated ability to plan and lead complex technical efforts associated with missile algorithm, fire control, and tactical software development efforts, program execution and reporting activities, Formal Test and Qualification activities, and Requirements Verification/Validation activities.
• Candidate should have wide experience/familiarity in dealing with the Engineering 8L Technology functional organization.
• Candidate must possess a demonstrated ability to identify and resolve needs or issues that could be an impediment to success of the team.
• Candidate will be required to communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership, and functional leadership, as well as externally to the customer and subcontractor, and thus must possess strong oral and written communication skills.
• Candidate must have familiarity and knowledge of the PAC-3 missile and associated systems, PAC-3 Systems and Software Engineering, and the PAC-3 software Release processes.
• Candidates must possess experience and initiative to ensure technical leadership and support is provided for the algorithm and software development processes, including Agile techniques.
• Candidate must have a secret clearance with an investigation in the past five years.
• Candidate must be available for potentially frequent domestic travel.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop planning, maintenance, and execution.
• Familiarity and knowledge of Air & Missile Defense systems, and interceptors is strongly desired
• Familiarity with the Lower Tier IAMD Missile Segment and its requirements combined with a working knowledge of the Army customer is strongly desired.
• Familiarity with the IAMD Battle Command System (IBCS) and its requirements combined with a working knowledge of the IFMC customer is strongly desired.
• Familiarity with the THAAD Weapon System and its requirements combined with a working knowledge of the MDA TPO customer is strongly desired.
• Cross Business Area experience within Lockheed Martin is strongly desired.
• Working knowledge of dealing with subcontractors and subcontract technical management is desired.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00

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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.