Reliability Engineer

Requisition ID: 8096

ERP Eligible?: Yes

Relocation: Possible

Type: Exempt

Shift: 1

Clearance Prior to Start: None

Final Clearance: Secret

Pay Transparency: $70,500.00 - $130,900.00

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

FT/PT/Casual: FullTime

Department: MFC-Primary

Business Unit: MFC-Primary

Standard Job Description

Seeking Reliability Engineering candidate that will ensure that the product, processes and systems meet defined reliability standards. You will be the Senior Reliability Engineer for the Reliability & Test Engineering team. Our team drives product reliability from concept to field, delivering robust designs, rigorous testing, and data driven improvements that keep Lockheed Martin systems flying safely and on schedule
What You Will Be Doing
As a Reliability Engineer you will support the reliability agenda across the entire product lifecycle. You’ll partner with cross functional engineers, influence technical boards, and turn reliability data into concrete actions that enhance performance, reduce risk, and meet contractual commitments.

Your responsibilities will include:
• Support Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analyses (FMECA) and produce reliability block diagrams and quantitative predictions.
• Track reliability growth plans; perform growth analysis to ensure program contracts are satisfied.
• Support design reviews, test events, and configuration control processes (ECP, CSB, CCB).
• Participate in Corrective Action Boards (CAB) and Failure Review Boards (FRB) to drive root cause resolution.
• Analyze FRACAS trends, prioritize failure modes, and recommend corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Build mathematical models to flag high risk units, batches, or processes and propose design or formulation changes.
• Define and implement statistical process control procedures and test methods to meet reliability targets.
• Compile performance reports, process control statistics, and detailed reliability documentation for stakeholders.
• Collaborate daily with engineers, program managers, and customers, delivering clear analytical input and written reports.
• Travel occasionally to field sites, test facilities, or customer meetings to support reliability initiatives.

Develops, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (doe) constructs. Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have or be able to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Experience with performing reliability predictions and analyses.
• Experience with reliability FRACAS and statistical data mining.
• Experience with the FMECA process.
• Ability to manage subcontractors in the Reliability field of expertise.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to build effective working relationships.
• Additionally, candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills, technical writing experience, and an ability to perform oral presentations in front of large groups.
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or STEM related field from an accredited college with 3 years of professional experience.

Desired Skills

• Active Secret Clearance
• Strong electrical background with a good mechanical understanding
• Practical hands on experience with hardware test and troubleshooting.
• Analytical thinker with a demonstrated ability of solving complex problems which require ingenuity and innovation.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from an accredited college with 3 years of professional experience.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $ - $

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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.