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F-35 R&M Senior Manager - Level 6

Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace and Aviation
Fort Worth, TX (On-Site/Office)

Job Number 708819BR

Description:
You will be the Sustainment Engineering F-35 Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Senior Manager.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Sustainment Engineering F-35 Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Senior Manager, you will lead a diverse team of skilled engineers (primarily located in Fort Worth, TX) in the execution of R&M work scope across all F-35 contracts. You will have the responsibility to develop and communicate the vision and strategy for the implementation of processes while leveraging new developments in digital transformation, model-based system engineering, and Engineering for Sustainment. You will empower the team to cultivate and maintain a continuous process improvement culture in meeting schedule, budget, and quality goals that help our customers meet their mission requirements.
You will be responsible for coordinating and managing all organizational staffing actions which include workload analysis, succession planning, recruiting, hiring, and retention initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities also include facilitating and ensuring the professional development of the team by supporting employee career development and growth opportunities. The senior manager will coordinate and manage performance assessments, recognition/disciplinary actions, and skills competency assessments for the organization.
In additional to functional leadership of the team, the selected candidate will be responsible for daily execution of contracted work scope, including pre-award activities of proposal development, Basis of Estimate (BOE) development, and contract negotiations.

The selected candidate will:

- Be the primary point of contact for all F-35 R&M inquiries
- Interface frequently (nearly daily) with F-35 government customers and internal R&M stakeholders
- Coordinate F-35 R&M work scope execution with other Lockheed Martin teams (RMS) and industry partner teams (BAES and NGC)
- Integrate processes and deliverables across four first-line leaders and their teams
- Present R&M concepts, metrics, degraders, and action plans to executive internal and external leadership and stakeholders
- Coordinate with F-35 Program Management and Control Account Managers (CAMs) to ensure work is delivered on time and within the allocated budget

Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with the Joint Program Office are necessary for success in this position. Additionally, the role requires simultaneously progressing short-term goals and long-term goals within a dynamic customer and business environment.

Minimal travel required (about 10%).

What's In It For You:
From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin's comprehensive benefits package here.

Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus -if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

Further Information About This Opportunity

This position is in Fort Worth, TX Discover Fort Worth.
Basic Qualifications:
• Proven ability to drive positive organizational change that delivers business results aligned with Aero 100 objectives.

• Must hold a Final DoD Secret clearance prior to start. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

• Holds previous F-35 program or like platform experience

• Previous experience leading teams or project teams

• Holds at least 10 years of experience within Systems Engineering or Sustainment, or combined experience and education
Desired Skills:
- Holds a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college (Engineering degrees preferred)
- Reliability and Maintainability experience
- Experience interacting with high levels of internal and external leadership and presenting to large (50+ people) groups
- Experience developing Statements of Work (SOWs), Performance Work Statements (PWS) language, and Basis of Estimates (BOEs)
- Knowledge of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) fundamentals
- Experience managing supplier performance and contracting with suppliers
- Experience developing and managing Tier 2 metrics
- Vemo experience
- ALIS/ODIN experience
- Excellent leadership skills and demonstration of all the tenants of Full Spectrum Leadership
- Effective task organization and communication skills
- Experience with operational excellence (continuous improvement) capability.
- Experience leveraging risk management processes to manage emerging challenges.
- The leader must have executive presence and be able to brief to senior customers and internal stakeholders.
- Experience supporting a government customer.
- Experience in leading technical talent and building pipelines to sustain technical expertise within the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to mature and transition technology
- Wide variety of customer experience
- Demonstrated business acumen and understanding of connectivity and support of Sustainment to the overall success of the business.
- Adept at working within matrix organizations for successful execution.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must. The successful candidate will be required to communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally to the customer.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate solutions that produce a positive outcome with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help 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, develop, 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. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you're invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs , and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Product Support
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
group id: lckmtncx

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