You will be the Electrical Engineer for the Hardware Engineering team at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC). Our team delivers precision engagement aerospace and defense systems, designing, building and fielding the electrical hardware that powers missiles, sensors and other mission critical subsystems for the United States and allied militaries.
What You Will Be Doing
As the Electrical Engineer you will serve as the primary technical liaison for PAC‑3 electronics, lead failure investigations, and coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams to keep the program on schedule, within budget, and compliant with all contract requirements. Your responsibilities will include:
- Acting as the main technical contact for PAC‑3 electronic hardware throughout development and production.
- Leading root‑cause investigations, defining corrective actions, and providing clear disposition recommendations for production hardware.
- Presenting technical issues and status updates to program leadership and, when needed, to SHIELD with concise, audience‑appropriate briefings.
- Coordinating activities between production sites and the program to clear DD250 constraints.
- Managing updates to the Technical Data Package, preparing change proposals, and presenting them to change‑review boards.
- Working with Sub‑Contracts Management to oversee supplier activities, evaluate vendor proposals for technical compliance, and monitor a major subcontractor’s performance.
- Executing Engineering Change and Material Review Board processes, including non‑conformance assessments and failure investigations.
- Supporting obsolescence planning and mitigation to maintain long‑term product viability.
- Conducting risk assessments, trade studies, and recommending technical solutions as issues arise.
- Collaborating with systems, mechanical, software, test, quality, and logistics teams to resolve constraints and drive integrated solutions.
- Mentoring junior engineers and fostering an inclusive, collaborative team culture.
- Travel to production sites (domestic), sometimes on a short notice, to resolve production issues/failure
Why Join Us
Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus. If you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.
We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Further Information About This Opportunity:
This position is in Grand Prairie, TX. Discover more about our Dallas, Texas location.
MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access. The selected candidate must be able to obtain a secret clearance.
- Experience with troubleshooting Analog and Digital Electronics
- Working knowledge of lab equipments such as Oscilloscopes, Power Supplies, DMM, signal Generators, spectrum analyzers
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 9 years of professional experience; or 7 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
- Ability to travel approx. 10% of time domestically.
- Ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance
- DoD Secret or Top Secret.
- Prior experience of PAC-3 program, Production processes, Failure Investigation, Root Cause and Corrective Actions
- Experience with developing BOEs, reviewing suppliers’ BOEs.
- Certified or working knowledge of CAM
- Experience working with suppliers and leading suppliers during failure investigation
- Strong background in cross-discipline systems engineering practices including requirements development/maintenance, architecture, hardware/software design, integration and verification
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00
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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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, with 9 years of professional experience; or a related master’s degree with 7 years of professional experience
- Experience troubleshooting analog and digital electronics
- Working knowledge of oscilloscopes, power supplies, digital multimeters, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers
- Ability to travel approximately 10% domestically
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Prior PAC-3 program, production process, failure investigation, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action experience
- Experience developing and reviewing supplier basis-of-estimate documents
- Certified or working knowledge of CAM
- Experience working with suppliers and leading supplier failure investigations
- Strong cross-disciplinary systems engineering background, including requirements, architecture, hardware/software design, integration, and verification
- Existing DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance
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