Job Requirements
Louisville, CO
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$164,300 - $289,800
Job Description
Job Number 722677BR
Description: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.
At Lockheed Martin Space (LMS), we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We're creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We're erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We're advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we're reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
The Optical Sensor Components (OSC) department is seeking a Optical Sensor Components Senior Manager (preferred location is Louisville, CO) to significantly impact the enterprise through establishment of a dedicated team working to drive common, high TRL payload products across programs.
We partner with the Optical Talent Center (OTC) engineering managers, engineers, architects, & Fellows to develop product maturation plans in accordance with Lines of Business (LOB) roadmaps & need dates. We keep abreast of SOA (State of Art) as well as SOP (State of Practice) to provide subject matter expertise (SME) across all program lifecycles, and consult on make/buy decisions for their products & would be the execution team if a "make" decision was determined by the program.
As the Optical Sensor Components Senior Manager, you will:
• Lead management team managers & a department consisting of new hire to Fellow-level optical & detector engineers supporting all LM Business Areas (BAs) & LMS Lines LOBs with SME oversight, design, development, & manufacture of optical payloads, optical benches, telescopes, focal plane array subsystems, & detector technology.
Partner with LOBs, OTC Program Development, & OTC Systems Engineering to develop architectures for optical payloads for space, airborne, & tactical missions in a manner to allow use of common products.
Work across LM BAs to develop optical & detector products & to communicate staffing, training, & product development needs for optical payloads & detectors, & to compliment the OSC team across LM.
• Develop transition plans for low TRL products from the science & technology community.
• Work with Payload IPTs leads & LOB leadership to understand mission drivers. Fold emerging mission trends into product roadmap to ensure a discriminating edge.
• In coordination with OTC Program Development, propose & execute IRAD projects with a goal of standardization & maturation. Identify targeted products to reach a state that can be considered "high TRL", "commodity" or "Off- the-Shelf".
• Stay abreast of technology development in optics & detectors. Build relationships with suppliers of optics & detectors.
• Perform with the Integrated Product Team (IPT) in cases where an OTC make is selected. Support all program phases & be responsible for EU (engineering unit), qualification & flight as determined by programs. This may be at the optical payload, optical bench, telescope, focal plane subsystem, & detector component, sub-assembly or subsystem level.
• Implement & lead technical knowledge management to develop & maintain core competencies, technical skills, knowledge continuity & facilitate career advancement opportunities to employees.
• Partner with other OTC departments to support OTC initiatives such as AI use, process improvement, & program execution improvement. Capture optical payload engineering best practices in engineering into LM command media.
• Execute performance reviews & lead the OSC management team in functional management of the department. Hire staff & staffing requirements, sustain engineering capability, & preserve critical skills.
Basic Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or testing optical payloads or optical or detector subsystems across space, tactical, and/or ground applications
• Established experience in developing technical talent and building pipelines to sustain technical expertise within the organization
• Experience delivering on Optical PL or other optical products
• Must have an Active Final Top Secret Clearance to be considered, with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance; US Citizen is required
Desired Skills:
• Experience as a certified CAM on programs
• Experience in the execution of IRAD programs and projects
• 5+ years demonstrated hands-on expertise in space OR complex hardware/software systems
• Demonstrated experience with developing and implementing focal plane arrays (FPAs). For passive EO, we work with staring and scanning FPAs in the visible and IR domain. For active EO, we work across multiple types of lidar receiver arrays, primarily GmAPD.
• Demonstrated experience in signal chains. A signal chain typically refers to the command and routing/processing/dissemination of mission data. There are usually multiple components that encompass a signal chain: front end E-O convertor (i.e., focal plane), image data processor, image data router, and image data storage
• Demonstrated experience in developing calibrators, optical components and developing/evaluating optical coatings. We work with a range of optical systems starting from the sub-meter class through apertures greater than 1.5M.
• Demonstrated experience in developing active EO (lidar systems). We work with fiber and planar waveguide lasers. These lasers output a range of power densities that encompass use in long range imaging applications all the way through directed energy applications.
• Have experience in developing space qualification plans for components
• Experience writing proposals including writing and reviewing Basis of Estimate cost proposals.
* Excellent communications skills both verbal and written with the proven ability to communicate
• Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex technical issues/challenges.
• Variety of customer experience and exposure across Space Lines-Of-Businesses.
• Prior leadership roles with proven experience leading employees to perform productively and foster relationships in a cross-functional team environment.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly
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 $164,300 - $289,800. 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.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $189,000 - $327,635. 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.
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.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Electro-Optical Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
Description: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.
At Lockheed Martin Space (LMS), we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We're creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We're erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We're advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we're reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
The Optical Sensor Components (OSC) department is seeking a Optical Sensor Components Senior Manager (preferred location is Louisville, CO) to significantly impact the enterprise through establishment of a dedicated team working to drive common, high TRL payload products across programs.
We partner with the Optical Talent Center (OTC) engineering managers, engineers, architects, & Fellows to develop product maturation plans in accordance with Lines of Business (LOB) roadmaps & need dates. We keep abreast of SOA (State of Art) as well as SOP (State of Practice) to provide subject matter expertise (SME) across all program lifecycles, and consult on make/buy decisions for their products & would be the execution team if a "make" decision was determined by the program.
As the Optical Sensor Components Senior Manager, you will:
• Lead management team managers & a department consisting of new hire to Fellow-level optical & detector engineers supporting all LM Business Areas (BAs) & LMS Lines LOBs with SME oversight, design, development, & manufacture of optical payloads, optical benches, telescopes, focal plane array subsystems, & detector technology.
Partner with LOBs, OTC Program Development, & OTC Systems Engineering to develop architectures for optical payloads for space, airborne, & tactical missions in a manner to allow use of common products.
Work across LM BAs to develop optical & detector products & to communicate staffing, training, & product development needs for optical payloads & detectors, & to compliment the OSC team across LM.
• Develop transition plans for low TRL products from the science & technology community.
• Work with Payload IPTs leads & LOB leadership to understand mission drivers. Fold emerging mission trends into product roadmap to ensure a discriminating edge.
• In coordination with OTC Program Development, propose & execute IRAD projects with a goal of standardization & maturation. Identify targeted products to reach a state that can be considered "high TRL", "commodity" or "Off- the-Shelf".
• Stay abreast of technology development in optics & detectors. Build relationships with suppliers of optics & detectors.
• Perform with the Integrated Product Team (IPT) in cases where an OTC make is selected. Support all program phases & be responsible for EU (engineering unit), qualification & flight as determined by programs. This may be at the optical payload, optical bench, telescope, focal plane subsystem, & detector component, sub-assembly or subsystem level.
• Implement & lead technical knowledge management to develop & maintain core competencies, technical skills, knowledge continuity & facilitate career advancement opportunities to employees.
• Partner with other OTC departments to support OTC initiatives such as AI use, process improvement, & program execution improvement. Capture optical payload engineering best practices in engineering into LM command media.
• Execute performance reviews & lead the OSC management team in functional management of the department. Hire staff & staffing requirements, sustain engineering capability, & preserve critical skills.
Basic Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or testing optical payloads or optical or detector subsystems across space, tactical, and/or ground applications
• Established experience in developing technical talent and building pipelines to sustain technical expertise within the organization
• Experience delivering on Optical PL or other optical products
• Must have an Active Final Top Secret Clearance to be considered, with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance; US Citizen is required
Desired Skills:
• Experience as a certified CAM on programs
• Experience in the execution of IRAD programs and projects
• 5+ years demonstrated hands-on expertise in space OR complex hardware/software systems
• Demonstrated experience with developing and implementing focal plane arrays (FPAs). For passive EO, we work with staring and scanning FPAs in the visible and IR domain. For active EO, we work across multiple types of lidar receiver arrays, primarily GmAPD.
• Demonstrated experience in signal chains. A signal chain typically refers to the command and routing/processing/dissemination of mission data. There are usually multiple components that encompass a signal chain: front end E-O convertor (i.e., focal plane), image data processor, image data router, and image data storage
• Demonstrated experience in developing calibrators, optical components and developing/evaluating optical coatings. We work with a range of optical systems starting from the sub-meter class through apertures greater than 1.5M.
• Demonstrated experience in developing active EO (lidar systems). We work with fiber and planar waveguide lasers. These lasers output a range of power densities that encompass use in long range imaging applications all the way through directed energy applications.
• Have experience in developing space qualification plans for components
• Experience writing proposals including writing and reviewing Basis of Estimate cost proposals.
* Excellent communications skills both verbal and written with the proven ability to communicate
• Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex technical issues/challenges.
• Variety of customer experience and exposure across Space Lines-Of-Businesses.
• Prior leadership roles with proven experience leading employees to perform productively and foster relationships in a cross-functional team environment.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly
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 $164,300 - $289,800. 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.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $189,000 - $327,635. 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.
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.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Electro-Optical Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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