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Join our Lockheed Martin team where you will lead an Orion team on the contract that will return humans to the surface of moon and establish a permanent human presence at the moon as a stepping stone to Mars through the Artemis III thru VIII missions.
As a Chief Engineer on Orion, you will be leading a team in completing all the in-house hardware builds and material procurement supporting the Artemis III thru Artemis VIII missions. This role will include the following responsibilities:
- Serve as primary technical authority / technical interface with internal program management and external customers.
- Ensure proposals have sound technical solutions, schedules, and justification, with appropriate risk management.
- Collaborate across the Lockheed Martin enterprise to define, develop and deliver products with consideration for common products, affordability, and a roadmap for portfolio level success.
- Lead technical teams of cross functional engineers to ensure successful product and system development and execution, across the program life cycle.
- Ensure standard technical methods are in use and implement appropriate engineering processes aligned to mission success and the program profile.
- Demonstrate in-depth technical skills and drive a mission success culture.
- Management and timely resolution of complex issues and the program top technical issues to include assembling teams, providing technical guidance, engaging the enterprise, and communicating with customers.
- Provide timely communications with LM leadership with a focus on placing events and issues in the right broader context (e.g. relative risk, impacts and implications) as the technical execution quality conscious of the program Engineering Practices.
- Responsible for key decision making that impact businesses, the failure to achieve the objectives result in critical impact of program capabilities. Ensures identification of lessons learned and implementation of corrective actions to improve future and ongoing programs. Serve as a key point of contact and advocate for the Engineering team with program management, other program segments / IPTs, external
partners and subcontractors.
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Demonstrated experience as a technical leader, coordinating across multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to communicate successfully both written and verbally across all levels of an organization from entry level to executive Vice Presidents
- Significant experience in a complex engineering role on spacecraft, missile, or related systems
- Detailed knowledge of engineering and program planning throughout development, design, build, test, and integration phases
- US citizen required to perform this task
- Strong mission and end-to-end systems expertise: system, space and ground integration
- Experience with Mission Operations and on- orbit anomaly resolution
- Experience with troubleshooting test failures
- Prior experience as an LM Space Chief Engineer or Delegate
- Experience across multiple life cycle phases including development and into production, test and operations
- Prior experience leading a team thru development and design reviews
- Strong mentoring skills as evidenced through active mentoring relationships
- Proven experience as a conceptual thinker with the ability to translate into action and results
- Experience as CPE or RSE and delivering space flight or ground hardware or software
- Experience with human spaceflight requirements, design and operations
- Familiarity with LM Space Engineering processes and command media
- Experience interfacing and partnering with NASA customer
- Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex technical issues / challenges
- Experience with internal production operations Material Review Board (MRB) Certification and experience dispositioning non-conformance
- Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $148300.00 - $275500.00
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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.
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