Design Quality Engineering

Program Quality Engineer

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is seeking a full-time experienced Program Quality Engineer to perform as the Design Quality Engineer for a team of quality engineers that will execute Engineering Quality Assurance tasks on new Program Designs. Responsible for ensuring quality engineering input is accounted for and modeled appropriately in all value chains such that the total Cost of Quality (CoQ) is right-sized throughout the life of a program. Working with management, design engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing engineering, and sustainment the design quality engineer provides input to the contract review processes, requirements distillation processes, program planning processes, product design processes, product quality planning processes, supplier quality/sourcing activities, and sustainment operations. This role will need to be able to operate in both model-based and non-model-based programs. This role will need to communicate functional requirements to the 1LMX capability development teams to ensure that the quality design processes are incorporated into new business systems.

Key deliverables of a Design Quality Engineer:

• Leverage keen knowledge of aerospace, mechanical, electrical and/or structural engineering to collaborate with design engineering throughout the design maturing and release processes to identify and define proper datum schemes, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), key characteristics, statistical tolerancing, and other requirements of concern
• Participate in Program Technical reviews and boards
• Identify and correct inspectability issues of designs prior to engineering release
• Create first article inspection datasets for parts requiring first article inspection (FAI) within the product lifecycle management (PLM) system
• Identify inspection technology choices and options to downstream facilities and planning organizations
• Create and manage sampling plans and assign to relevant product characteristics so production planning can plan the details of the shop floor work instructions
• Use the digital thread to model impacts from expected quality performance levels on the program's production system and schedule and coordinate changes as required to product designs or manufacturing plans
• Assess programs' readiness states against quality readiness level (QRL) gates for programs throughout their acquisition lifecycle with respect to the Design and Planning Processes

The model-based quality engineer will accomplish most work and create most deliverables within the PLM (or other Engineering) system in use on the assigned program. Thus, understanding of design release processes and how the results of which are absorbed downstream are critical to performing in this role.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Engineering or Related Field
• Experience in Product Design and Product Design Processes
• Basic GD&T training

Desired Skills:

• Quality Sciences Experiences - FMEA, DOE, SPC, etc.
• Performed RCCA and Continuous Improvement Projects
• F-35 Product Knowledge
• TeamCenter and Catia Experience
• Trained in Interchangeability and Replaceability
• Familiar with Engineering Design Attributes
• Experience with Key Characteristics Management

Security Clearance Statement:

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

Other Important Information You Should Know:

Expression of Interest: 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.

Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.