Propulsion Engineer Sr Stf

Lockheed Martin; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 162,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Lockheed Martin is seeking an experienced propulsion engineer in Colorado to design, manufacture, procure, and test propulsion components and assemblies. You will coordinate with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and related fields including manufacturing, quality, and systems engineering.

Independent design solutions using CAD and analyses are expected. The role involves leading integration, developing performance specs, and supporting reviews with program personnel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience with 1st order analysis in fluids, statics and dynamics, heat transfer/thermal.
• Experience with mechanical CAD modeling in CREO or equivalent.
• Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of Requirements development and management.

Responsibilities

• Subsystem Integration
• Lead propulsion component design and development
• Develop specifications, statements of work and supplier data requirements
• Maintain engineering drawings, specs, and analyses
• Provide design solutions using solid models and drawings
• Review requirements to ensure proper flow into detailed design
• Support production meetings and resolve anomalies
• Evaluate and own technical aspects of procurement from hardware suppliers
• Provide data packages and support reviews and technical interchange meetings

Skills

Systems integration

Propulsion experience

Flight telemetry data

Program management

CAMEO/DOORS

AI prompting

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

CREO CAD

CAMEO

DOORS

Job description

Standard Job Description

Your duties will include responsibility for design, manufacture, procurement and testing of the propulsion system components and assemblies. This job requires coordinating with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields including manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities.

Standard Job Description

Your duties will include responsibility for design, manufacture, procurement and testing of the propulsion system components and assemblies. This job requires coordinating with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields including manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities.

Other Duties May Include

• Subsystem Integration
• Lead the conceptual development, requirements definition, and design of propulsion components
• Develop product performance specifications, statements of work, and supplier data requirements for components
• Maintain engineering drawings, specifications, and technical analyses to support systems and components
• Independently develop and provide design solutions, of varying complexity, using solid models, detailed drawings, and release of engineering work products.
• Independently review requirements, from various sources (instrumentation, dynamics, stress, systems, thermal, manufacturing, etc.) to ensure that applicable requirements are flowed into the detailed design of assigned products.
• Support production meetings and manufacturing & test anomaly/discrepancy resolution
• Evaluate, select, and own the technical aspects of the procurement from the selected hardware supplier
• Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design review.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or in related discipline
• Experience with 1st order analysis in fluids, statics and dynamics, heat transfer/ thermal
• Experience with mechanical CAD modeling in CREO or equivalent
• Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• 8+ years of related experience
• Knowledge of Requirement development and management

Desired Skills

• Experience with propulsion component development and system integration experience
• Ability to collaborate effectively with adjacent fields (systems engineering, electronics, stress/thermal analysis, configuration management, production, test, quality…)
• Experience with using flight telemetry data for analysis and processing
• Experience with supply chain management and subcontracts
• Familiar with design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Experience developing Proposal documents and Basis of Estimates (BOE’s)
• Experience with propulsion subsystem architecture development
• Experience with anomaly management with standard root cause tools (e.g. fishbone or fault tree analysis)
• Experience presenting to program leadeship and customers during Design Reviews
• Experience with Program Management and/or Control Account Management
• Experience with CAMEO and DOORS for requirement management
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $145100.00 - $269500.00

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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.