Manufacturing Engineer Staff - E4

Lockheed Martin; Palmdale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, CA, seeks a manufacturing engineer to drive corrective actions and close process gaps across subsystems installation and integration. The role emphasizes collaboration with quality engineering, production operations, and engineering teams to reduce variation and ensure operational excellence.

You will leverage lean six sigma methodologies, SP-C tools, and advanced CAD/PLM systems to optimize manufacturing processes, tooling, and work instructions while supporting

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment with cross-functional collaboration across disciplines.
• Lean manufacturing and process improvement experience.
• Experience with composite part and assembly manufacturing processes.
• Ability to obtain a secret security clearance and suitability for LM programs.

Responsibilities

• Work corrective actions for discrepancies in a manufacturing environment across multiple portions of the build.
• Conduct critical reviews of processes to identify gaps and close the process gaps to reduce variation and discrepancies.
• Collaborate with quality engineering and production operations to triage repeat failure modes.
• Utilize lean six sigma toolsets to identify root causes and develop corrective action plans.
• Collaborate with team members to support product improvement initiatives.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

Manufacturing experience

Statistical process control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

iBase-t (Solumina)

Teamcenter

SFM

CATIA

Job description

Standard Job Description

We are Lockheed Martin

Skunk Works is on the leading edge of manufacturing innovation. We continually look for ways to improve processes and performance while extracting cost by focusing on the areas of subsystems installation and integration.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work corrective actions for discrepancies in a manufacturing environment across multiple portions of the build.
• Conduct critical reviews of processes to identify gaps and close the process gaps with the intent of reducing variation and discrepancies in the build.
• Collaborate with quality engineering and production operations to triage repeat failure modes in a production environment.
• Utilize lean six sigma toolsets to identify root causes and develop corrective action plans.
• Collaborate with team members to explore out-of-the-box thinking and contribute to product improvement initiatives.

What’s In It For You

We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security.

Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus -if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

Who You Are

You are a multi-faceted teammate able to communicate and function effectively on an engineering team to create a collaborative environment that allows for the establishment of mission goals. Self-motivated and inspired, you thrive in an environment where you are empowered to work your craft, never settling for the bare minimum.

This position is located in Palmdale, CA.

We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment working cross functionally with other disciplines including industrial engineering, planning, scheduling, Quality Assurance &/or production operations.
• Experience with some combination of the following: experience with manufacturing processes and procedures including composite fabrication, structural assembly, machining, bonded assemblies &/or installations.
• Experience with MRP system or SAP or other Manufacturing Execution System (MES) application-Ability to obtain a secret security clearance after offering acceptance and willing to stay in current role/employment throughout the clearance processing period.
• Candidate must have a full secret clearance prior to start.
• Ability to obtain special program access within 3 months of start date with LM.

Desired Skills

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or other related technical field with 7+ years’ experience
• Previous experience with lean manufacturing and process improvements
• Experience with composite part and assembly manufacturing process.
• Experience with composite part and assembly tooling.
• Experience with shop floor setup and optimization.
• Experience with various PLM systems including SAP, iBase-t (Solumina), Teamcenter, and/or SFM
• Experience with CATIA or other related CAD software.
• Experience supporting various projects and coordinating activities related to the full life cycle of projects from conception to delivery
• Working knowledge of one or more organizations including: Operations, Planning, Production Control, ERP, MRP, Quality or systems integration.
• Demonstrated ability to drive issues to closure and develop preventative action plan to limit failures in the future.
• Demonstrated ability to solve logistical issues and lead efforts to drive mission success.)}