The Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Integration, Test, and Evaluation (IT&E) department in Grand Prairie, Texas is seeking an experienced System Integration and Test Engineer for the Lower Tier Integrated Air Missile Defense (LTIAMD) program area to serve as the Engineering & Technology Manager (ETM).

What You Will Be Doing

The ETM will be responsible for assessing IT&E staff planning, inputting new requisitions, and aligning staff to meet dynamic critical needs. The ETM will also be responsible for career development of current IT&E staff, performance assessments, coaching/mentoring, and providing feedback. The position requires excellent leadership skills and demonstration of all the tenants of Full Spectrum Leadership. The ETM will collaborate with existing IAMD ETMs to support department initiatives as well as driving technical excellence, affordability, and program execution for the Line of Business (LOB).

In addition to the ETM role, the candidate will serve as the program’s Integration and Test Lead and Control Account Manager (CAM). Key responsibilities include: Support Systems Engineering to distill System Level Requirements down to Test Requirements; Generate the Master Test Plan, Resource Allocation Matrix, IT&E inputs to the Program Integrated Master Schedule; Write Test Procedures for Design Verification Tests and Qualification Tests; Coordinate with Test Facilities to schedule testing, to develop tooling and fixtures to support tests; Prepare Test Readiness Review (TRR) Packages; Conduct Development Verification Tests (DVT) & Qualification Tests and Write Test Reports for each test event.
Other responsibilities include Supporting Supplier planning, DVT, and Qual Testing and support subcomponent and subassembly electrical and mechanical integration of pathfinder and flight test hardware for subsystem acceptance testing. As required, support Test Engineering with Test Station Development, Integration, Verification, and Validation using "Golden Units" - qualified Unit Under Test or Hardware-In-the-Loop (HWIL) assets. The effort may include coordinating with external test facilities or ranges depending on the results of make/buy trade studies.

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 minimum of a bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of professional experience, we encourage you to apply. You should also have engineering management or engineering team lead experience, process improvement and affordability experience, strong business acumen, management influence, and whole systems thinking. As a strong leader with excellent communication and problem-solving skills, you will thrive in this role, contributing to the success of our programs and advancing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.

We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

This position requires the ability to travel up to 10% to domestic destination(s) as needed.

Further Information About This Opportunity:
This position is in Grand Prairie, Texas. 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 have the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance. Interim Secret Clearance required to start.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years or more of professional experience.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated Project or Technical leadership experience
• Engineering management or Engineering team lead
experience including task planning, budget management, and/or employee development and mentoring
• Experience with hardware integration and/or hardware testing
• Full Product Lifecycle Development Experience
• Interim Secret Clearance required to start
Desired Skills:
• Strong desire to positively influence the career
trajectories of direct reports and to build future
talent in the IT&E department
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working successfully in a team environment
• Demonstrated Problem-Solving skills
• Engineering team leadership experience including task planning, control account management (CAM), subcontract management and/or employee development and mentoring
• Demonstrated excellence in communicating with Senior Levels of Management
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical systems/programs
• Risk Analysis experience
• Familiarity with Procurement Processes
• Process Improvement and Affordability
experience
• Experience managing and/or leading a multi-functional team in an development environment
• Experience in earned value management or basic budget and schedule management
• Experience performing proposal/BOE development and man-power estimation
• Experience in leading the planning and execution of Missile component and system level Integration & Test activities
• Familiarity with design, integration, analysis, validation, and verification
• Experience in leading the planning and execution of Risk Reduction, Design Verification, and Qualification Test Programs
• Experience preparing and leading Pre-Ship Readiness Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, and Mission Success Reviews
• Current or previous assignment in LTIAMD area
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.
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