This position is for a Chief Engineering Sr. Manager for the JASSM program in the Strike Systems program area. The successful candidate will report to the JASSM Program Chief Engineer programmatically and lead the Engineering & Technology (E&T) team supporting JASSM production. The candidate will work closely with the JASSM Chief Engineering staff to coordinate tasks and share lessons learned, and with other Strike Systems Chief Engineers to support cross-program collaboration.
What you will be doing:
As the JASSM Production Chief Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the E&T team supporting JASSM production, working with suppliers and factories to sustain production operations and meet program and corporate milestones.
- Providing Technical and Programmatic leadership/oversight on production rate increases in support of both USG and FMS customers.
- Providing leadership and oversight for transition to production of new JASSM variants and second source suppliers.
- Developing a productive partnership and trusting relationship with the JPO customer through effective communication and collaboration.
- Partnering with Program Management, Production Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality to communicate engineering assessments and align engineering priorities with program needs.
- Guiding Engineering team, IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews.
- Ensuring program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective.
- Collaborating with Engineering Excellence management to ensure program milestones are successfully completed.
- Supporting and leading program technical reviews and participating in monthly E&T meetings, staff meetings, and other critical program activities.
- Sharing lessons learned and coordinating tasks with the entire Chief Engineer staff
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for production execution, transition to production, and supporting proposal activities.
- Protect system integrity and reliability while supporting opportunities to improve production efficiency and reduce cost.
- Develop and execute engineering plans, schedules, and trade study analyses that support production commitments.
- Lead or support customer briefings, weekly IPT status updates, Technical Interchange Meetings, Technical Readiness Reviews, and other critical program reviews.
- Lead technical investigations with urgency, communicate results to program leadership and the customer, and participate in Failure Review Boards, Risk Management, and Mission Success Reviews.
- Support technical reviews internally, with the customer, and external stakeholders, and at supplier locations.
- Have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience.
- Experience and demonstrated skill set with missile systems design, development, and production support.
- Must possess ability to plan and lead the technical teams/efforts associated with Complex Missile Systems.
- Candidate will be required to communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the USG customer.
- Must be available for occasional domestic travel.
- Candidate must have a Secret clearance..
- An advanced degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is desired.
- Prior experience at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is highly desired.
- Candidate should have wide experience/familiarity in collaborating with the Engineering & Technology functional organization.
- Ability to interface with the USG Customer office and global supply base.
- Ability to support technical reviews internally, with the customer, and external stakeholders, and at supplier locations.
- Experience in leading Failure Analysis and Failure Review Boards.
- Experience leading technical teams through major proposal efforts.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00
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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 engineering from an accredited college or university
- Existing professional engineering experience
- Experience with missile systems design, development, and production support
- Ability to plan and lead technical teams and efforts associated with complex missile systems
- Ability to communicate technical status and issues to program, technical, and functional leadership and USG customers
- Availability for occasional domestic travel
- Secret security clearance
- Advanced degree in engineering
- Prior experience at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
- Experience collaborating with an Engineering and Technology functional organization
- Ability to interface with USG customer offices and the global supply base
- Experience supporting technical reviews with customers, internal teams, external stakeholders, and suppliers
- Experience leading failure analysis and Failure Review Boards
- Experience leading technical teams through major proposal efforts
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