Associate Manager, Cable and Harness Design

Lockheed Martin•Littleton, CO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an Associate Manager to join our Spacecraft Flight Cable and Harness Design team! The team supports multiple lines of business at Lockheed Martin which means you could be designing wiring systems for the next mission to Mars or the next generation of GPS satellites. This position does not support teleworking; you will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility in Littleton CO and be expected to work a flexible 9x80 schedule in the office full-time. Provide leadership, functional management and technical direction to a team of engineers responsible for electromechanical engineering research, design, development, and production support for the Harness Spacecraft Flight Team. Responsible to provide the functional directorate, program management, and their customers’ effective project management, accurate and detailed plans and schedules and efficient production support. Responsible for working with our Subject Matter Experts to develop training material to be used with our early career engineers and new hires, to help establish consistency across our team. Content will include at a minimum 3D MCAD (Creo Parametric Cabling) best practices, harness design principles, and design for manufacturability content as a few examples. This curriculum will be developed with help from our senior engineers but it will be the responsibility of the Associate Manager to build the training material and maintain it. Responsible for the direct development and training of new team members, to get them proficient in our software tools (Creo Parametric Cabling) and to ensure competence while building them towards mastery, providing them guidance and support along the way.

Requirements

Flight Cable & Harness design or production experience, having lead Program Design teams and been sought after as a Subject Matter Expert.
Considered a Creo Super User/Expert with proven success in working with top vehicle assembly models, cable assembly models, formboard models, stick figure patterns, 3D best practices, 2D drafting best practices.
Must be a US Citizen; this position will require the ability to obtain government security clearance.
Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education with a STEM focus and fundamental principles
Prior experience with Cable/Harness design.
Creo Parametric Cabling proficient.
Prior experience as a technical lead.
Must be a US Citizen; this position will require the ability to obtain government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience generating training material, instructing other, technical mentorship.
Experience in using Zuken schematic/cabling drafting tool (or similar) or MCAD software centered in model-based HARNESS engineering.
Collaborate with subsystems, survivability, environmental, and other specialty engineers to develop unique cables for various space products.
Cable and Harness production experience or working with production centers.
Experience in presenting to leadership and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and administer Spacecraft Harness Design training material to help establish and maintain consistency across our team.
Provide leadership on a fast paced team from requirements through development and production.
Be responsible to assure coordination between functional groups during the product development life cycle.
Communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the customer.
Conducting personnel management for a portion of the Spacecraft Flight team.
Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection, and training.
Responsible for performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
Participate in technical reviews and audits.