Component Engineering Manager

Component Engineering Manager | Lockheed Martin

Ahead of Ready 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. 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.

The Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has a long history of supporting the Navy's mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense. With over 70 years of experience, the team has developed a unique expertise in delivering advanced technologies to keep the country and its allies secure. The program is experiencing significant growth, with new opportunities for career development and advancement. By joining the team, individuals can expect to become part of a dynamic and innovative culture that fosters creativity, excellence, and collaboration. Learn more about Trident II D5 fleet Ballistic Missile.

As the FBM Component Engineering Manager at Lockheed Martin Space, you have an immediate impact in shaping the organization's future. This is an opportunity to lead a dynamic Component Engineering and support staff supporting Missile programs. Drawing upon previous leadership experience and your own technical expertise, you will help your team overcome challenges and build the organizational talent to solve the challenges of the future. In this role you will:

• Drive execution of a Parts Engineering & Parts Control teams
• Exercise your expertise in the application of all parts and parts control disciplines in support of FBM development and production
• Staff and assign Component Engineering & support staff personnel (Project Engineers, Engineering Aides, Documentation Engineers, etc.) to technical engineering assignments ensuring program success
• Lead the resolution of critical issues & maintain awareness, engagement and communication of critical issues and their reach across programs
• Perform functional management tasks including coaching, group & individual development, and performance management for your team
• Apply Leadership principles to help the team adjust to a new organizational paradigm.

We're looking for:

• Your expertise coordinating work and personnel across multiple work locations and organizational structures
• A highly motivated individual able to form effective relationships within program, with other enterprise organizations, and with customer personnel
• Experience balancing multiple, competing priorities in a highly dynamic, high-tempo environment
• Balancing programmatic, functional, leadership, and technical tasks
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical and programmatic issues to your team, peers, management and customers
• Experience modeling Leadership imperatives, ownership and accountability
• Proven skills providing technical and administrative direction to other employees

Desired skills:

• Experience in mentoring and supporting career development
• Proven ability to build a team and set a business rhythm to achieve program objectives and priorities
• Experience establishing and implementing technical requirements (specifications, program plans/requirements, etc.)
• Experience with part procurement, qualification and traceability issues
• Experience in review and oversight of Technology Development, Qualification and Insertion in programs
• Experience participating in major program milestone reviews such as SRR, PDR and/or CDR
• Experience providing schedule, staffing, workload, metrics and technical issue briefings to management
• Ability to balance cost, schedule and risk in decision making
• Knowledge of natural and/or man-made radiation effects on EEE parts and/or materials
• Non-conformance and failure analysis disposition experience
• Familiar with using business tools and systems for configuration management and quality control
• Project Leadership/Management Experience throughout the engineering life cycle: scoping, sizing, cost estimation, planning, scheduling, staffing, tracking and earned value management
• Experience working reciprocally with customers and teammates
• Active or Current Top Secret clearance

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.