Job ID: 701219BR Date posted: Aug. 12, 2025 Program: LRHW
Description:The Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program is one of Lockheed Martin’s outstanding programs that prioritizes partnership, integrity, and reliability. Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, AL to support LRHW Program Production Operations (Prod Ops). The selected candidate will have the opportunity to support electro/mechanical structure assembly, integration and test (AI&T) operations.

This position may require some travel and support to other manufacturing operations.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support the team for shop floor support, maintaining manufacturing plans, tooling requirements, engineering change implementation and coordinating changes in the build process within an electrical/mechanical manufacturing facility.
• Leading the technical team daily to meet engineering requirements, schedule and cost commitments, providing production status to leadership.
• Designing manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, machining and material handling.
• Designing of machine layout within plant facilities to ensure most efficient production capabilities.
• Creating procedures and operations for the fabrication of tools and equipment and other functions that affect product performance.
• Adapting machine or equipment design to factory and production conditions. May incorporate inspection and test requirements into the production plan.
• Providing guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Writing production planning, inspecting and assessing defective hardware, and optimizing production flow to meet program deliverables.
• Interfacing with shop floor personnel to implement process improvements to gain efficiencies and represent manufacturing in peer reviews of engineering drawings to enhance the design for manufacturability.
• Tool design, analysis of shop performance, and supporting Quality Assurance in determining Cause and Corrective Actions for process-related defects.
Basic Qualifications:
• Experience writing or reviewing manufacturing work instructions or similar documentation.
• Experience working in manufacturing, quality, or a production environment.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical and/or electrical engineering drawings, schematics and/or specifications.
• Ability to obtain a secret clearance.
Desired Skills:
• Manufacturing experience involving assembly integration and test or similar types of processes.
• Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience working with Government customers.
• Familiarity with Lockheed Martin Space Systems processes (Earn Value Management Systems, Cost Accounting, Manufacturing Work Instructions, Routings, Production Orders, Bill of Materials, Qnotes, FFMEAs, FOE/FOD, Savant, Specs LMS1000 and EMS200, etc.) or industry equivalent.
• Familiarity with Lockheed Martin Space systems tools (SAP, EPDM, VECAMS, PMP Database, etc.) or industry equivalent.
• Aerospace or defense systems electrical and/or mechanical assembly experience or experience in a similar hardware type processing facility.
• Final secret security clearance.
• Ability to work independently with little to no direction.
• Experience collaborating with a multi functional team.
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First