Missile Defense Mission Assurance Sr. Manager (TS clearance required)

Lockheed Martin•Huntsville, AL

21h•Onsite

About The Position

As the Missile Defense Programs (MDP) portfolio Senior Manager, you will be the Mission Assurance (MA) authority for the MDP portfolio, including Targets & Countermeasure Programs (TCP) and Need-To-Know (NTK) efforts, and the Huntsville site. This role provides portfolio- and site-wide Program Quality and Mission Success leadership, including Program Quality process oversight, evaluation of risks to Mission Success, and serves as the MDP MA management team member on the VP staff. This is a crucial time for MDP with executive direction to significantly accelerate development efforts to field new capabilities. Additional site process challenges are expected, associated with growth for these and other programs such as NGI and hypersonics. The role is based in Huntsville, AL and integrated with MDP Mission Success support to be responsive and accountable to program needs while ensuring process compliance and product quality. This position is the “face” of MA for our MDA Customer, with daily interaction in orchestrating Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance (QSMA) leadership events and execution of TCP and any future MDP CABs. You will also interact with the Chief Engineers’ office, Program Management, and external customer POCs including DCMA and audit on the quality side. Ability to juggle development and production, hardware and software is critical to success in this role. You will report to the Strategic and Missile Defense (SMD) Mission Assurance Director, and matrixed to the MDP mission area VP. This is a unique, strategic role with the opportunity to shape our Customers’ view of Mission Assurance that builds on Lockheed Martin’s world-class legacy in strategic technology. We are the only company with a proven track record in this space and need a big leader to set a vision and execute on our commitments.

Requirements

Bachelor or Master's degree in science, engineering, business or any other related field from an accredited university.
Ability to work with failure investigations and failure analysis.
Ability to work with risk identification and mitigation.
Ability to drive closure and resolve technical issues/challenges.
Demonstrated customer orientation by learning and understanding customers’ missions, needs, and perspectives.
Speak Up attitude and ability to influence technical leaders and program executives.
Willingness to travel ~25% time.
Current DoD Clearance.
12+ years of related experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Science or Engineering preferred.
Missile Defense mission or MDA-facing experience highly preferred.
Missile Defense system hardware/software development and integration experience.
Experience across all aspects of the program lifecycle, such as design, development, flight test, and production.
Aptitude for Model Based Engineering, Agile processes, and Digital Transformation.
Currently active DoD Top Secret Security clearance or higher clearance.

Responsibilities

Mission Assurance functional management, responsible for ownership for the Quality Management System on these critical programs.
Guiding technical decisions for product development, ground and flight test planning, and design maturity milestone reviews.
Primary interface for MDA QMSA, Huntsville campus operations, DCMA and organization for AS9100, LM internal or customer audits on your programs.
Mission Success Leadership – advocate within the program, serving as the risk conscience for the MDP portfolio providing support for risk assessments to Mission Success issues and being a back-up for MS event management such as flight test preparation.
Quality & Process Subject Matter Expert (SME) – Provide expertise to the program to anticipate, predict, and prevent potential mission risk issues by resolving them as early in the program life cycle and at the lowest program level possible.
Working with Engineering and Operations, develop accurate and actionable processes and metrics to support high-reliability, high-rate production and on-time delivery.
Failure Resolution Cognizance – Review all major anomalies for adequacy of root cause identification, corrective actions, validity of conclusions, and effectiveness of implemented corrective measures.
Potential Reach Across Cognizance – Ensure issues that have the potential of reach across to other Strategic Reentry Products and other missile development programs are known and communicated.
Facilitation of Mission Assurance related site wide actions and support as needed.