Production Machinery Maintenance Engineer - Level 5

Lockheed Martin•Palmdale, CA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

You will be the Production Machinery Maintenance Engineer - Level 5 for the Facilities and Plant Engineering team which is responsible for coordinating labor, overhead, and capital investments in key production machinery. As the Production Machinery Maintenance Engineer - Level 5 you will be responsible for driving reliability, efficiency, and continuous‑improvement initiatives across the plant’s equipment base.

Requirements

Experience in manufacturing, fabrication and the maintenance of critical machinery supporting manufacturing operations.
Experience in Total Manufacturing Practices (TMP), failure and root cause analysis and training.
Experience in planning/scheduling of predictive and preventative maintenance and working with Manufacturing on corrective and emergency maintenance.
Experience analyzing metrics, machinery uptime and performance.
MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing or Fabrication Leadership in a classified or export controlled environment.
Reliability Engineering and/or Machinery Maintenance leadership.
Experience in working with Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Cost Accounting Managers (CAM), particularly regarding eCARDS.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute predictive, preventative, corrective, and emergency maintenance to maximize machine uptime and protect production windows.
Conduct operator failure and root‑cause analyses, develop training, and translate findings into actionable improvement plans.
Implement Total Manufacturing Practices such as Clean As You Go (CAYGO) and convert them into verifiable eCards in partnership with Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Collaborate with Planning & Integration to deploy, maintain, and analyze FORCAM and other machinery‑analytics tools.
Coordinate with F&PE, Production Operations, and Quality leadership to align labor, overhead, and capital investments with strategic manufacturing goals.