Skunk Works - Manufacturing Engineer Staff

Lockheed Martin Corporation•Marietta, GA

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, home of the world-renowned Skunk Works, turns visionary aircraft into reality and is known for building the finest military aircraft in the world. This recognition is continually earned through our commitment to relentless research and development of high-performance aircraft, continuously seeking innovative, low-cost design and manufacturing strategies, and delivering operational readiness for our customers' missions to ensure continued relevancy for the life cycle of our products. In this role, you will immediately impact the business with your ingenuity, creativity, and ideas that will be the catalyst for future business. If you are craving an opportunity where you are invited to be passionate, push the envelope, and think outside of the box, this opportunity with our Skunk Works may be just for you. We ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready. As a Manufacturing Engineer in Skunk Works, you will play a critical role as liaison between our design engineering teams and the elite women and men responsible for building tomorrow's future in an advanced manufacturing and technology facility. You will work amongst a team of specialized and professional engineers to lead producibility reviews, develop manufacturing plans, and guide work instructions generation to directly support the shop floor. Our team is in development, and there will be an expectation to develop, shape, and document processes for manufacturing engineering standard work. You will also mentor early career engineers on the discipline. We work cross functionally and engage other organizations as needed to support our common program goals. This position is in Marietta, GA Discover Marietta. This role may require infrequent travel, extended hours, and possible weekend/off-hour support. We work full time on site. Our team supports programs that may require additional special access in addition to a DoD Secret clearance. This is required prior to start.

Requirements

STEM Bachelor's degree.
Direct Experience with Production Operations and/or Engineering and/or Production Engineering.
Experience in Aerospace/Space sector.
Active DoD Clearance with an Investigation within the last 5 years AND the ability to obtain and maintain special program access per business requirements.
3D Modeling experience in 3DX / CATIA V5/V6/ SolidWorks or other model based software.

Nice To Haves

7+ plus years experience.
Aerospace Structures experience, design preferred.
Experience defining and reviewing facilities requirements for production operations.
Experience defining and reviewing tooling concepts.
Experience with Interchangeable / Replaceable requirements.
Experience with program start-ups with Manufacturing / Assembly / Production processes.
Composites manufacturing experience.
Project management experience.
Atlassian Confluence and JIRA experience.
Experience with Root Cause and Corrective Action, and FMEA.
Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and set up production work cells and facility layout changes.
Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment or independently to solve problems in a timely manner.
Demonstrated understanding of engineering blueprints, process specifications, manufacturing planning, and developing work instructions.
Ability to effectively present technical information to non-technical people.
Demonstrated ability to drive issues to closure and develop workaround plans or corrective action plans.

Responsibilities

Work in parallel with design engineering, quality engineering, supply chain organizations, and production operations.
Create 3D manufacturing simulations to drive efficiency throughout the build of our product, perform clash detections, and sequence assembly tasks for the lifecycle of the program.
Review critical designs and provide design for manufacturability feedback of all 3D engineering models to reduce cost and positively impact performance at suppliers across the country.
Design factory product and process flows using 6S methodologies to optimize production operations activities.
Create Manufacturing Engineering Statement of Work contractual requirements.
Collaborate and contribute on the design of DA tooling.
Drive collaboration and discussions around producibility and design for cost.
Own Capital Planning forecast for the assigned effort.