Posted today
Top Secret
$180,000 - $309,120
Unspecified
King of Prussia, PA (On-Site/Office)
Job Number 720882BR
Description: The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.
What is the mission?
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more- we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we 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 development 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. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.
What does this role look like?
➥ Leading a cross-functional technical Mission Success / Mission Assurance team for the SMD Line-of-Business (LOB).
➥ This role includes shaping program requirements across Mission Assurance and Mission Success domains, developing and leading a skilled technical organization, and effectively contributing as an LM Space executive.
➥ The Director will notably lead Mission Success independent engagement across SMD LOB programs, as well as shaping program quality requirements and ensuring adherence to company and contractual requirements.
➥ The Director will also address and resolve SMD portfolio technical Mission Success and Mission Assurance risks and issues in collaboration with Engineering & Technology and other functional organizations.
➥ The Director also ensures technical, anomaly and lessons learned data sharing within the LOB, across the LM Enterprise, and influences customer and industry initiatives regarding Mission Assurance at cross-industry fora.
➥ The responsibilities require somebody with diverse and refined executive leadership skills who can independently measure and assess program technical performance to identify risks, systemic issues and areas for improvement, and lead a technical team that effectively drives effective and rigorous root cause and corrective / preventive action through program Corrective Action Boards (CABs) to enable Mission Success.
Basic Qualifications:
To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:
• BS in engineering or related technical discipline.
• Diverse and extensive leadership experience in the National Security Space domain with a strong industry and government network and demonstrated experience to address and solve complex problems collaboratively at a national level.
• Demonstrated experience in staffing, talent development and mentoring to effectively to address problematic and high-risk areas.
• Must have a proven ability to build and manage large teams that are organizationally and geographically dispersed.
• Demonstrated experience and extensive expertise with Mission Success and Mission Assurance domains that include missile, space vehicle and ground system functions.
• Technical and leadership experience with missile and spacecraft development, design, production, test, and operations and strong competencies across missile and spacecraft subsystems.
• Program management experience and demonstrated success balancing cost, schedule and technical considerations.
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently possess and be able to maintain a US DoD TOP SECRET clearance with SCI access, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Desired Skills:
To be effective, ideally, you should also have:
• Understanding our missions and how Mission Assurance affects their success.
• Experience investigating and troubleshooting piece part, component, subsystem and system-level failures.
• Experience building effective teams of subject matter experts to solve complex problems.
• Extensive experience identifying and mitigating technical risks.
• Experience with both risk adverse and risk tolerant programs.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to resolve technical and process issues.
• Experience effectively communicating and promoting potentially unpopular but necessary technical positions.
• Demonstrated experience with relationship building and interpersonal acumen to effectively influence change and show thought leadership across multiple organizations.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex development or design issues and experience in the failure resolution/remediation.
• Demonstrated exemplary verbal and written communication skills at an executive level.
PLEASE NOTE-Other important information:
• By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, 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.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Benefits of Employment:
Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.
Learn more about Lockheed Martin's competitive and comprehensive benefits package here.
We are also committed to enabling transitioning veterans to connect with their communities and find new purpose as they reintegrate into civilian life. By clicking on the link, you can find out more on how we proudly support the Military/Veterans Network:
Hiring Our Heroes
Joining Lockheed Martin Space means becoming part of a global network of passionate professionals dedicated to safety and shaping the future of defense capabilities
At Space we value your skills, training, and education. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and visionary thinking, everything is within our reach - and yours as a Lockheed Martin Space employee. ...just to name a few reasons to join Lockheed Martin Space, and experience your future!
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
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: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $180,000 - $309,120. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Management
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
Description: The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.
What is the mission?
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more- we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we 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 development 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. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.
What does this role look like?
➥ Leading a cross-functional technical Mission Success / Mission Assurance team for the SMD Line-of-Business (LOB).
➥ This role includes shaping program requirements across Mission Assurance and Mission Success domains, developing and leading a skilled technical organization, and effectively contributing as an LM Space executive.
➥ The Director will notably lead Mission Success independent engagement across SMD LOB programs, as well as shaping program quality requirements and ensuring adherence to company and contractual requirements.
➥ The Director will also address and resolve SMD portfolio technical Mission Success and Mission Assurance risks and issues in collaboration with Engineering & Technology and other functional organizations.
➥ The Director also ensures technical, anomaly and lessons learned data sharing within the LOB, across the LM Enterprise, and influences customer and industry initiatives regarding Mission Assurance at cross-industry fora.
➥ The responsibilities require somebody with diverse and refined executive leadership skills who can independently measure and assess program technical performance to identify risks, systemic issues and areas for improvement, and lead a technical team that effectively drives effective and rigorous root cause and corrective / preventive action through program Corrective Action Boards (CABs) to enable Mission Success.
Basic Qualifications:
To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:
• BS in engineering or related technical discipline.
• Diverse and extensive leadership experience in the National Security Space domain with a strong industry and government network and demonstrated experience to address and solve complex problems collaboratively at a national level.
• Demonstrated experience in staffing, talent development and mentoring to effectively to address problematic and high-risk areas.
• Must have a proven ability to build and manage large teams that are organizationally and geographically dispersed.
• Demonstrated experience and extensive expertise with Mission Success and Mission Assurance domains that include missile, space vehicle and ground system functions.
• Technical and leadership experience with missile and spacecraft development, design, production, test, and operations and strong competencies across missile and spacecraft subsystems.
• Program management experience and demonstrated success balancing cost, schedule and technical considerations.
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently possess and be able to maintain a US DoD TOP SECRET clearance with SCI access, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Desired Skills:
To be effective, ideally, you should also have:
• Understanding our missions and how Mission Assurance affects their success.
• Experience investigating and troubleshooting piece part, component, subsystem and system-level failures.
• Experience building effective teams of subject matter experts to solve complex problems.
• Extensive experience identifying and mitigating technical risks.
• Experience with both risk adverse and risk tolerant programs.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to resolve technical and process issues.
• Experience effectively communicating and promoting potentially unpopular but necessary technical positions.
• Demonstrated experience with relationship building and interpersonal acumen to effectively influence change and show thought leadership across multiple organizations.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex development or design issues and experience in the failure resolution/remediation.
• Demonstrated exemplary verbal and written communication skills at an executive level.
PLEASE NOTE-Other important information:
• By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, 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.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Benefits of Employment:
Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.
Learn more about Lockheed Martin's competitive and comprehensive benefits package here.
We are also committed to enabling transitioning veterans to connect with their communities and find new purpose as they reintegrate into civilian life. By clicking on the link, you can find out more on how we proudly support the Military/Veterans Network:
Hiring Our Heroes
Joining Lockheed Martin Space means becoming part of a global network of passionate professionals dedicated to safety and shaping the future of defense capabilities
At Space we value your skills, training, and education. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and visionary thinking, everything is within our reach - and yours as a Lockheed Martin Space employee. ...just to name a few reasons to join Lockheed Martin Space, and experience your future!
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
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: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $180,000 - $309,120. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Management
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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