Quality Engineer Staff

Lockheed Martin; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 118,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to lead quality assurance for materials, packaging, and subcontractors, ensuring compliance with contract and government requirements. You will perform supplier audits, drive CAPAs, and collaborate with engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing to uphold high reliability.

Travel about 25% is expected. This role requires a degree in a technical field, ERP familiarity (SAP), and experience in quality engineering or

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; relevant experience considered in lieu of degree.
• Familiar with Procure-to-Pay or SAP.
• Experience in Quality Engineering, Systems Engineering, Materials Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Proficient in ERP & Microsoft Office.
• Ability to obtain Interim Secret clearance to start and ultimately a Secret Clearance.
• Ability to travel approximately 25%.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, direct and report on supplier quality activities for raw materials, packaging, service providers, contract manufacturers, and laboratories to ensure contract and PO requirements.
• Maintain control of supplier nonconforming items; analyze and monitor corrective actions.
• Develop, apply and maintain quality evaluation and control systems for processing materials.
• Collaborate with internal program quality, engineering, supply chain management, and suppliers to ensure quality standards; monitor supplier facilities.
• Perform source surveillance audits, supplier assessments, and validation of special process audits; ensure corrective actions meet reliability standards.
• Prepare and review procurement quality assurance procedures to ensure compliance with customer and government requirements.

Skills

Project leadership

Root cause analysis

Quality mindset

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

SAP

Tableau

ERP systems

Job description

Standard Job Description

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Plans, organizes, directs and reports on all supplier quality related activities such as raw materials, packaging materials, good manufacturing practices service providers, as well as contract manufacturers, and laboratories to assure fulfilment of contract, purchase order requirements. Ensure control of supplier nonconforming items, conduct analyses and monitor effectiveness of corrective actions. Translates engineering, manufacturing, and quality requirements. Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality evaluation and control systems and protocols for processing materials into partially finished or finished product.

Collaborates with internal program quality, engineering, supply chain management, and manufacturing functions and external suppliers to ensure quality standards are in place. Monitors quality control activities and systems at supplier and subcontractor facilities and maintains feedback loops. Performs source surveillance audits, supplier assessments, and validation of special process audits and selection of sub-tier suppliers. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements. Prepares, maintains and reviews procurement quality assurance procedures to assure compliance with customer and/or government requirements.

May be certified in lean and six-sigma. Coordinate with Supply Chain Management to ensure they are reviewing and updating all active Suppliers Subcontractors approvals per the Procurement Requirements. Review and approve or reject New Capability Requests for new Suppliers Subcontractors, check and challenge their accreditation certification. Visit suppliers as required for face-to-face engagement to support the job duties. (Note: On average, travel is approximately 25% but it is in short trips during the month. (e.g. One day at one supplier + Two days at another supplier on a different or the same week during a month.))

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Technical field in lieu of degree, relevant experience will be considered.
• Familiar with Procure-to-Pay or SAP.
• Experience in one of the following disciplines: Quality Engineering, Systems Engineering, Materials Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Proficient in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to obtain an Interim Secret clearance to start and ultimately a Secret Clearance
• Ability to travel approximately 25%.

Desired Skills

• Project Leadership/Management experience
• Creating, developing visualization for, or using metrics
• Experience with tableau
• Experience with propulsion systems
• Experience working with Global Supply Chain / Supply Chain Management
• Defect resolution through implementation of effective root cause corrective action.
• Quality Material Review Board (MRB) certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Program Quality Engineering Experience
• Supplier Quality Engineering Experience
• Survey/Supplier Auditing Experience
• RCCA Certification
• ASQ Certification (CQE, CSQP, CMQ/OE, CSSGB, CSSBB, etc.)

Pay Information

GeoZone Definition: GeoZones are geographic groupings created by Lockheed Martin to align compensation ranges with regional labor markets and cost-of-labor differences across the United States. Locations are assigned a Geo Zone based on the primary work location of the role.

• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 1):$131100.00 - $243500.00
  • Includes metropolitan areas such as Sunnyvale CA; Pal Alto, CA; New York City metropolitan area; Newark, New Jersey; etc.
• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 2): $118000.00 - $219100.00
  • Includes metropolitan areas such as Denver, CO; King of Prussia, PA; Stratford, CT; Moorestown, NJ; etc.
• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 3): $104900.00 - $194700.00
  • Includes metropolitan areas such as Dallas–Fort Worth, TX; Orlando, FL; Grand Prairie, TX; Marietta, GA; etc.
• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 4): $94400.00 - $175200.00
  • Includes metropolitan areas such as Camden, AR; Lexington, KY; Lufkin, TX; etc.

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The salary range for this position is aslisted 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.