Program Quality Sr Manager

Lockheed Martin•Littleton, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

In this role, you will lead the Program Quality teams within the EWC Mission Segment comprising of the Deep Space Exploration, Weather, Commercial, and Nuclear Power Mission Areas. You will support programs including GeoXO, Lightning Mapper (LMX), Dragonfly, DAVINCI, and many others. You will work closely with the Commercial Civil Space (CCS) Mission Success Lead to be responsive and accountable to Mission Segment and program needs, provide independent review, while ensuring process compliance and product quality. You will report to the CCS Mission Assurance Director, working directly with the Mission Area Program Quality leaders, Program Management, Chief Engineering, and program personnel. It is our ultimate responsibility to deliver the capabilities aligned to our customer commitments with compliant processing and exceptional product quality. This position is the “face” of Quality and Mission Assurance for EWC. You will regularly interact with Program Management, the Chief Engineers’ Office, Engineering, Operations, program personnel, and external customer POCs. The ability to juggle engineering development, production support, supplier performance, and hardware nonconformance resolution is critical to success in this role. 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 the right leader to set a vision and execute.

Requirements

Bachelor or Master's degree in Science or Engineering or any related field from an accredited university
Program, Supply Chain, and/or Production Quality experience or anything else related
Experience with failure investigations and/ or failure analysis or anything else related
Demonstrated understanding of risk identification or mitigation
Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve technical issues/challenges
Demonstrated Speak Up attitude and ability to influence technical leaders and program executives
Experience building and/ or leading teams
12+ years of related experience

Nice To Haves

Flight hardware/software development and integration experience
Masters degree in Engineering or Science preferred
Experience across all aspects of the program lifecycle, such as design, development, test, production, and ATLO (Launch Ops)
Previous proposal experience
Cost Account Manager (CAM) experience
Familiarity/prior experience working NASA programs
Strong interpersonal skills with teamwork and transparency as a priority, demonstrable written communication and oral presentation skills
Familiarity with LM Space Quality products/processes & technologies
Experienced with fixed price program execution