Systems Engineering Sr Mgr - L6

Lockheed Martin; Highlands Ranch (CO); On-site; USD 179,000 - 332,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) match

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space seeks a Chief System Engineer to lead the systems engineering on the GeoXO program, coordinating with the Program Manager, Chief Engineer, and NASA customers to deliver high-performance space systems.

The role demands technical and business acumen to balance priorities, drive issue prevention, and communicate status to executives and partners. This is a high-visibility, impactful position within LM Space.

Qualifications

• Ability to balance cost, schedule and technical decisions.
• Experience supporting the Systems Engineering organization on a development program.
• Demonstrated experience building customer relationships and negotiating requirements and scope.
• CAM experience.
• Experience leading technical teams and project management.
• Familiar with Systems Engineering principles and complex space architectures.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation.
• Coordinate recruitment, staffing, and training across teams and suppliers.
• Translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications across life cycle.
• Provide technical direction and interface with program managers, NASA and LM leadership.

Skills

Balance cost/schedule decisions

Leading technical teams

Project management

CAM experience

Systems engineering processes

Multi-vehicle architectures

Job description

Standard Job Description

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

Overview

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

What does this role look like

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an experienced Chief System Engineer (CSE) to support the GeoXO program. The successful candidate will be responsible for the systems engineering effort on this multi-year development program, working in close collaboration with the Program Manager, Chief Engineer, Space Vehicle and Payload IPT Leads, as well as the NASA customer. The CSE will be responsible for technical direction, planning, staffing, interfacing with LM senior management, customers, subcontractors, partners and suppliers, and integration and coordination with all functional organizations involved in system design, integration, assembly, test and delivery. This is a high-visibility position that offers an opportunity to quickly make a significant impact on the future of LM Space. The position requires a high level of technical and business acumen to balance priorities, drive issue prevention/resolution, and clearly communicate status and needs to our customers/partners, and with both Lockheed Martin and supplier executives.

Standard Job Description

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. For positions that perform IT responsibilities, use E646, Systems Engr-IT.

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to balance cost, schedule and technical decisions
• Experience supporting the Systems Engineering organization on a development program.
• Demonstrated experience building effective customer relationships and negotiating requirements and scope
• CAM experience
• Experience leading technical teams
• Project management experience
• Experience implementing System Engineering processes and command media
• Experience with system-level considerations for multi-vehicle architectures and high-performance systems for space applications
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering principles and processes, and their application to complex space architectures through the entire life cycle
• Familiar with technology obsolescence management

Desired Skills

• Experience with fixed price program execution
• C&DH design and integration experience
• NASA customer experience
• Experience as a Chief System Engineer through the entire lifecycle of a development program
• Experience in a formal leadership role
• Development program management experience
• Recognized as an authority in the implementation of System Engineering processes and command media, with the demonstrated ability to apply them to a wide range of sophisticated problems and train others in their application
• Experience with Systems Engineering principles and processes, and their application to complex space architectures through the entire life cycle
• Experience with technology obsolescence management
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $178500.00 - $331500.00

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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.