Operations & Maintenance Reliability Manager

Operations & Maintenance Reliability Manager | Lockheed Martin

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The Work

Lead a Center of Excellence (CoE) and Site Reliability Engineering Team that owns the RMS enterprise-wide program to eliminate risk, optimize maintenance strategy, and drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction across 15+ million key square feet (ksf) of manufacturing, laboratory, and office facilities. You will directly manage 10+ Reliability Engineers (REs) who are embedded at individual sites (solid-line reporting to you, dotted-line collaboration with site leadership). This matrix structure ensures global standards, local execution, and unified accountability. Success is defined by MTBF/MTTR gains, PdM maturity, criticality-based sparing, and capital avoidance through data-driven reliability.

Core Responsibilities

• Build and govern a single RMS Reliability Program (FMEA, RCM, criticality ranking, PM optimization, predictive technologies, RCA discipline), developing a 2–3-year roadmap and ensure delivery and implementation into the RMS maintenance culture.
• Ensure Site Asset Management Improvement Programs such as: Asset criticality Identification, Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Asset Condition Auditing, Preventive and Condition Maintenance Integration, Predictive Strategies, and Asset Refurbishment/Obsolescence Plans are being implemented with measurable success
• Implement current and new methodologies, techniques and work practices as they relate to Condition, Preventive and Predictive Based Maintenance
• Set technical direction, performance goals, and career development for 10+ direct-report site REs.
• Maintain the enterprise maintenance strategy library and enforce adoption via CMMS.
• Deliver reliability input into capital planning (replacements, upgrades, redundancy).
• Accelerate digital reliability (IoT, AI analytics, digital twin, mobile CMMS).
• Manager RMS and site level metrics through KPIs, executive dashboards, and quarterly reliability business reviews and implement practices within sites to deliver results.
• Facilitate the Reliability Community of Practice (training, peer reviews, vendor standards).
• Ensure site audit readiness

Who We Are

Lockheed Martin is a global leader in defense, aerospace, and advanced technologies. Our mission is to solve the world's toughest challenges by providing innovative solutions for our customers. We foster a culture of collaboration and growth, offering employees opportunities to develop new skills, advance their careers, and contribute to projects that make a global impact.

Why Join Us

At Lockheed Martin, you'll be part of a company that's committed to empowering you with the resources, training, and opportunities needed to shape the future of defense.

Desired Skills

• Active CMRP or CRE certification
• 8+ years hands-on reliability engineering or advanced condition-based maintenance in high-uptime manufacturing or R&D facilities environment.
• Mastery of FMEA, RCM, RCA methodologies and criticality analysis.
• Deployed predictive maintenance (vibration, IR, ultrasound, oil analysis, MCSA) at scale.
• Emerging authority on critical MEP infrastructure (chillers, boilers, UPS, generators, CRAHs, switchgear) and production assets (CNC, robotics, process tools, packaging lines).
• The candidate will be required to possess key leadership qualities to lead change within a department and drive employee engagement to deliver results
• Ability to take ownership and accountability of the Maintenance and Reliability programs while driving and implementing a culture of ownership, accountability and results within the sites
• Excellent customer service skills and ability to interpret needs
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all levels of personnel