Space Systems Project Engineer — Throughput & Program Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, CO, seeks an experienced manufacturing program manager to drive throughput and ramp-to-rate for hypersonic missile production. You will coordinate planning, scheduling, and cost alignment across engineering and manufacturing to meet tight cost and schedule commitments.

In this role you will interface with demand management, program planning, and contracts, delivering regular program updates to leadership and customers while ensuring design/test requirements

Qualifications

• Experience on a production program, either on the floor or from a program support perspective or comparable combined experience.
• Manufacturing leadership experience in previous lead roles, supervision, make planning, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering or similar.
• Program/Project Management and/or CAM experience or similar.
• Experience in low-rate and/or high-rate manufacturing or comparable combined experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee throughput initiatives to support demand and ramp to rate from an operations perspective.
• Coordinate planning, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering projects; review design for compliance and release changes.
• Ensure centers have resources needed from the program to meet cost and schedule commitments.
• Provide daily/weekly program status briefs to customer and on-floor manufacturing progress.
• Interface with demand management, planning, program finance, and manufacturing leaders to align build requirements.

Skills

Production program experience

Manufacturing leadership

Project management

Scheduling / planning

Cross-functional coordination

Cost accounting / CAM experience

Tools

AI prompting

Job description

Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, CO, seeks an experienced manufacturing program manager to drive throughput and ramp-to-rate for hypersonic missile production. You will coordinate planning, scheduling, and cost alignment across engineering and manufacturing to meet tight cost and schedule commitments.

In this role you will interface with demand management, program planning, and contracts, delivering regular program updates to leadership and customers while ensuring design/test requirements