Director, SMD Mission Assurance

Lockheed Martin•Littleton, CO

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact. What is the mission? Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more— we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future. By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours. What does this role look like? ➥ Leading a cross-functional technical Mission Success / Mission Assurance team for the SMD Line-of-Business (LOB). ➥ This role includes shaping program requirements across Mission Assurance and Mission Success domains, developing and leading a skilled technical organization, and effectively contributing as an LM Space executive. ➥ The Director will notably lead Mission Success independent engagement across SMD LOB programs, as well as shaping program quality requirements and ensuring adherence to company and contractual requirements. ➥ The Director will also address and resolve SMD portfolio technical Mission Success and Mission Assurance risks and issues in collaboration with Engineering & Technology and other functional organizations. ➥ The Director also ensures technical, anomaly and lessons learned data sharing within the LOB, across the LM Enterprise, and influences customer and industry initiatives regarding Mission Assurance at cross-industry fora. ➥ The responsibilities require somebody with diverse and refined executive leadership skills who can independently measure and assess program technical performance to identify risks, systemic issues and areas for improvement, and lead a technical team that effectively drives effective and rigorous root cause and corrective / preventive action through program Corrective Action Boards (CABs) to enable Mission Success.

Requirements

BS in engineering or related technical discipline.
Diverse and extensive leadership experience in the National Security Space domain with a strong industry and government network and demonstrated experience to address and solve complex problems collaboratively at a national level.
Demonstrated experience in staffing, talent development and mentoring to effectively to address problematic and high-risk areas.
Must have a proven ability to build and manage large teams that are organizationally and geographically dispersed.
Demonstrated experience and extensive expertise with Mission Success and Mission Assurance domains that include missile, space vehicle and ground system functions.
Technical and leadership experience with missile and spacecraft development, design, production, test, and operations and strong competencies across missile and spacecraft subsystems.
Program management experience and demonstrated success balancing cost, schedule and technical considerations.
You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently possess and be able to maintain a US DoD TOP SECRET clearance with SCI access, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

Understanding our missions and how Mission Assurance affects their success.
Experience investigating and troubleshooting piece part, component, subsystem and system-level failures.
Experience building effective teams of subject matter experts to solve complex problems.
Extensive experience identifying and mitigating technical risks.
Experience with both risk adverse and risk tolerant programs.
Experience collaborating across disciplines to resolve technical and process issues.
Experience effectively communicating and promoting potentially unpopular but necessary technical positions.
Demonstrated experience with relationship building and interpersonal acumen to effectively influence change and show thought leadership across multiple organizations.
Experience with multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex development or design issues and experience in the failure resolution/remediation.
Demonstrated exemplary verbal and written communication skills at an executive level.

Responsibilities

Leading a cross-functional technical Mission Success / Mission Assurance team for the SMD Line-of-Business (LOB).
Shaping program requirements across Mission Assurance and Mission Success domains
Developing and leading a skilled technical organization
Effectively contributing as an LM Space executive.
Leading Mission Success independent engagement across SMD LOB programs
Shaping program quality requirements and ensuring adherence to company and contractual requirements.
Addressing and resolving SMD portfolio technical Mission Success and Mission Assurance risks and issues in collaboration with Engineering & Technology and other functional organizations.
Ensuring technical, anomaly and lessons learned data sharing within the LOB, across the LM Enterprise, and influences customer and industry initiatives regarding Mission Assurance at cross-industry fora.
Independently measure and assess program technical performance to identify risks, systemic issues and areas for improvement
Lead a technical team that effectively drives effective and rigorous root cause and corrective / preventive action through program Corrective Action Boards (CABs) to enable Mission Success.