Manufacturing Engineer Associate Manager

Manufacturing Engineer Associate Manager | Lockheed Martin

The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.

In this role you will have the following daily key responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing engineering team in Denver (Waterton) across multiple factories (electronics, RF, machining, coatings, mechanisms, composites, structures) focused on driving producibility into in-work designs, yielding assemblies with reduced cost and build durations.
• Work with Hardware Engineering teams to drive consistency & identicality into designs across all LM Space Hardware Products.
• Deliver Production and DFX Entry/Exit Criteria and objective evidence for Program SDR, PDR, & CDR events.
• Identify opportunities with existing builds to improve quality and schedule with changes to flow or new tooling.
• Work with all Space production areas to share lessons learned and improve producibility across of all of Operations.
• Recommend capital expenditures based on new technology within industry.
• Support proposal efforts, ensure estimates are consistent with current capabilities, ensure design changes are proposed and "build-to-print" items are evaluated for possible improvements and cost/schedule risk profiles defined.
• Assist in the coordination of employee recruitment, selection, teaming, and training. Conduct performance assessments, set work assignments, salary decisions, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
• Will also provide leadership, direction, guidance, assistance and mentorship to assigned employees. This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility one of the Coolest places to work: Denver, Colorado, and be expected to work in the office.

To be effective, ideally, you should also have:

• Master's degree in technical discipline.
• Manufacturing Engineering experience in mechanical flight hardware production.
• Manufacturing Engineering experience in diverse/multiple hardware types & factories including electronics, RF, machining, coatings, mechanisms, composites, structures.
• Experience in program development with emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and project leadership.
• Ability to present technical concepts to cross-functional teams & executive management.
• Demonstrated skills in team building and leading through influence in a professional setting.
• Experience using Design Profit, Siemens Valor NPI, DFMPro, DFMA, or other producibility software, tools, or plugins.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance.

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, 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.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.