You will be the IT&E technical lead and E&T functional manager at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie, TX, or Orlando, FL. Our team is responsible for driving technical excellence, affordability, and program execution, and you will play a key role in managing and developing a team of engineers to achieve these goals.

What You Will Be Doing
As the IT&E technical lead and E&T functional manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers, providing technical coaching and mentoring, and supporting department initiatives and directorate undertakings. You will drive technical excellence, affordability, and program execution by providing work assignments, employee career development, and continuous employee feedback. You will also be an advocate for your employees during opportunity discussions and coordinate employee recruitment, selection, and training. You will support the planning, organization, and overall execution of the major field and flight test events within Dallas, Orlando, and offsite facilities.
This role would work in conjunction with the IT&E Architect on program, and provide program inputs to a diverse cross-functional team.
Tasks will include (but not limited to) Field Test execution, System and Electrical Block Diagram development, specification development, architecture design, support to Test Plan development, Test Execution, capital expenditures, and inputs to numerous internal and externally driven Design Review events. Targeting a quick learner/high potential candidate, with extensive integration and test experience in a lab environment, and an aspiration to or have previously led technical efforts.


Your responsibilities will include:
• Providing technical coaching and mentoring to team members
• Assigning work and developing employee career plans
• Providing continuous employee feedback and performance assessments
• Coordinating employee recruitment, selection, and training
• Developing and facilitating salary planning and recognition/disciplinary actions
• Driving engineering competency development and supporting program development
• Executing development requirements and adhering to engineering development processes
• Promoting customer focus and serving as the technical conscience for programs


Why Join Us
We're looking for a highly experienced and skilled IT&E E&T Manager to join our team. If you have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, current or prior team leadership experience, and current or prior engineering management or engineering team lead experience, we encourage you to apply. You should also have a current Secret clearance. As a seasoned leader with excellent technical and interpersonal skills, you will thrive in this role, leading a team of engineers and driving technical excellence and program execution. This position offers a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on our programs and our customers, and to develop your skills in engineering management and leadership.

From onsite to remote, 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 open to Dallas. Discover more about our Dallas, Texas location.

This position is open to Orlando. Discover more about our Orlando, Florida location.

The ability to travel to Orlando, Dallas, and Field Test Sites is required (~once a month)


MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access. The selected candidate must have the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance. An Interim Secret Clearance is required to start.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Science, Technology,
Engineering, or Math (STEM) or equivalent
professional experience
• Previous RF Field Test Planning and Execution
experience
• Current or prior team leadership assignment, either in a technical or programmatic leadership capacity.
• Current or prior experience with field and flight test integration (Subsystem or AUR)
• Engineering management or Engineering team lead experience including task planning, budget management, and/or employee development and mentoring
• The ability to travel to Orlando, Dallas, and Field Test Sites is required (~once a month)
• Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
Desired Skills:
• Current Secret clearance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Process Improvement and Affordability experience
• Self-Starter Personality; Ability to multitask
• Strong business acumen, management influence and whole systems thinking
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams (Cross-BA experience preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical systems/programs
• Strong desire to positively influence the career trajectories of direct reports and to build future talent in the IT&E department
• The ability to be self-sufficient, and work independently is required.
• Candidate must be self-motivated, team-oriented and capable of working with minimal direction.
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: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Assembly/Integration and Test
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First