PAC-3 Launcher Integration Chief Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation in Grand Prairie, TX seeks a Chief Engineering Manager for PAC-3 Launcher Integration across Patriot, IBCS, and THAAD/MSE programs. Lead hardware and software development, ensure program milestones, and coordinate with internal and external customers to achieve mission success.

The role reports to the PAC-3 Integration Program Area Chief Engineer and requires deep systems engineering leadership, strong communication, and willingness for domestic travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in the field.
• Ability to plan and lead technical efforts across program capture and development.
• Experience with missile algorithm, fire control, and tactical software development.
• Familiarity with the Engineering & Technology organization.
• Ability to communicate technical status to leadership and customers.
• Familiarity with PAC-3 missile and related systems.
• Experience with Agile techniques.
• Secret clearance with a recent investigation.
• Willingness to travel domestically.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to achieve milestones, R&Is, system analyses, and software development.
• Provide technical leadership for hardware design, development, integration, and test.
• Coordinate launcher development with other Line of Business efforts.
• Communicate lessons learned and maintain synergy across Chief Engineer staff.
• Provide design and development leadership from system architecture to qualification.
• Develop and execute detailed program plans, schedules, and trade studies.
• Lead or support customer briefings, IPT status updates, and Technical Interchange Meetings.
• Participate in Failure Review Boards, Risk Management, and Mission Reviews.
• Support technical reviews with customer, internal teams, and suppliers.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Systems engineering

Technical communication

Secret clearance

Domestic travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced engineering degree

Job description

Standard Job Description

This position is for a Chief Engineering Manager for the PAC-3 Launcher Integration activities 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 while ensuring execution and collaboration on the hardware (M-903 Launcher Mod Kit (LMK), Laucher Interface Network Kit-on-Enhanced Launcher Electronics System (LINK-on-ELES) and associated software products.

Standard Job Description

This position is for a Chief Engineering Manager for the PAC-3 Launcher Integration activities 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 while ensuring execution and collaboration on the hardware (M-903 Launcher Mod Kit (LMK), Laucher Interface Network Kit-on-Enhanced Launcher Electronics System (LINK-on-ELES) and associated software 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 successful candidate will report programmatically to the PAC-3 Integration Program Area Chief Engineer and be expected to work closely with the other members of Chief Engineering staff to ensure synergy across tasks and to communicate lessons learned.

What You Will Be Doing

As the PAC-3 Launcher Integration Chief Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Providing leadership to the team to achieve successful demonstration of program development milestones to include program technical reviews with customer and subcontractors, system analyses and software development, flight tests, software development, system integration and test, Software Functional Qualification Test (FQT) and Functional Configuration Audit (FCA).
• Providing technical leadership for electrical and mechanical hardware design, development, integration, and test. This candidate will also coordinate with other Line of Business efforts regarding launcher development as it relates to PAC-3 missile integration.
• Communicating lessons learned and ensuring synergy across tasks with the entire Chief Engineer staff
• Provide technical leadership for design and development efforts, from system architecture through design and qualification
• Develop and execute detailed program plans, schedules, and trade‑study analyses
• Lead or support customer briefings, weekly IPT status updates, Technical Interchange Meetings, Technical Readiness Reviews, and other critical program reviews
• Participate in Failure Review Boards, Risk Management, and Mission Success Reviews
• Support technical reviews internally, with the customer, and external stakeholders, and at supplier locations

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience
• 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 & 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 domestic travel.

Desired Skills

• An advanced degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is desired
• 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: $148300.00 - $275500.00

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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.