Job Description

Description:
You couldve been a counselor youre that good at listening to people, putting them at ease, and asking the right questions to get to the root of problems but your love of technology pulled you to engineering. Now, ~10 years into your career, your engineering colleagues know that youll share your extensive knowledge of manufacturing technologies and processes to help them solve their challenges and achieve their goals. Finance folks trust you because they know that you think about non-recurring, material, labor and sustainment costs, and help the business make optimal choices. And everyone respects you because they know that if you dont know how to help them, youll say so, and then go learn what you need to in order to be able to provide assistance.

Does this sound like you? If the answer is an unqualified YES! then you may be a good candidate to be a Cost and Value Staff Engineer for the Engineering Performance and Affordability team at Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS)

In this position, you will work elbow to elbow with expert design engineers to identify the steps that they can take to reduce the cost - but not the customer value! - of the products we are developing. You will apply sophisticated software to help understand what a part should cost, and you will work with stakeholders to make RMS and its suppliers more efficient.

Success in this position will require the ability to drive 1-on-1 engagement with subject matter expert engineers; rapidly develop robust cost models that those engineers and their Integrated Product Teams can believe and use; learn new subject matter, often under time pressure; and build, document, and improve complex processes. As we are a small department with complex and challenging work, we are looking for hard-working generalists, not specialists.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities
[Essential Functions, Estimated Work-Time %]
1. Manage yourself and your relationships with colleagues while working on multiple simultaneous projects involving a large number of participants
[Effectively manage oneself, ones time, relationships, and projects: 10%]
2. Rapidly build models that reliably forecast material use, labor consumption and non-recurring engineering requirements for our products and their components, based on the data that you collect
[rapidly create detailed and robust engineering and financial models: 15%]
3. Marshall specific and relevant information about manufacturing technology, manufacturing processes, and program requirements to enable colleagues at all career stages to make good decisions about cost / value trade-offs
[clearly communicate technical concepts to a diverse audience: 15%]
4. When you cannot find the information or data that you need, track down the data sources and/or people who can answer your questions, convince them to help you, learn what you need, and apply your new knowledge
[apply investigatory abilities and practices, build social networks, 10%]
5. Effectively use multiple digital systems to gather, manipulate, evaluate, and record data
[use databases, business intelligence, accounting, ERP / MRP, and other software; 10%]
6. Organize large piles of jellybeans, as we dont like the ones that taste like licorice
[apply attention to detail, demonstrate persistence, 10%]
7. Write narratives that explain your models and estimates, consistently document process, and create audience-appropriate presentations [communicate rapidly, clearly, and concisely, 15%]
8. Identify opportunities by which RMS and its suppliers can reduce costs, engage the subject-matter expert (SME) community to verify those opportunities, and then create business cases and coalitions to implement those opportunities [work with others to identify, validate, and implement improvements: 15%]
9. Other duties as needed or required [make life easier and better for your coworkers: 5%].
Basic Qualifications:
You must possess these qualifications and skills to be considered for this position.
1. US work authorization you are authorized to work in the United States.
2. Significant related experience you must have at least 9 years of experience with manufacturing engineering or related disciplines.
3. Moderate extroversion you must find it easy to engage with other people, including people you dont know at all, and people who have a background that is substantially different than your own. RMS has ~34,000 employees, and youll often have the need to engage new coworkers.
4. Virtual work; multi-modal communication you must be able to support distributed virtual teams using those teams preferred communication modalities (telephone calls, teleconferences, emails, in-person meetings) as needed.
5. Software aptitude you have a demonstrated capability to quickly learn new and complex software. You are an advanced user of Microsoft Office (and in particular Excel). You have used CREO, CATIA, or other similar engineering / CAD software extensively.
6. Engineering drawings you can easily read, understand, and interpret engineering drawings and models.
7. Systems thinking you understand how the many different pieces of a system fit and work together. You have demonstrated the capability to model the tradeoffs between the many different types of cost that are required to bring a product to market.
8. Quantitative modeling you have a demonstrated ability to create complex numeric models in a discipline directly related to our teams work.
9. Significant interest in our products youll be looking and thinking about them all day. If theyre not interesting to you, you are unlikely to do well in this work.
10. A broad sense of curiosity you love learning, have educated yourself about a wide variety of topics, and can apply knowledge from many disciplines to achieve success in this role. You have a college degree in a discipline that required mastery of quantitative information.
11. The ability to not be overwhelmed by large amounts of information particularly during your first 3-6 months, the volume of new information is tremendous.
12. Attention to detail and performance to deadline your former coworkers could / did / do count on you to deliver high-quality work on time.
13. Perseverance and resiliency like all work that involves uncertainty, ours is occasionally frustrating. If you find it intolerable to see your hard work come to nothing, this is not the job for you.
14. Factory visits you have no restrictions or limitations that would prevent your traveling to visit Lockheed Martin and supplier facilities (primarily within the United States, but occasionally in other countries), and working to gather data within factories, when public health circumstances make it safe to do so.
Desired Skills:
These qualifications and skills are ideal and therefore unlikely to be achieved by any one applicant in fact, some of these qualifications are mutually exclusive. If you possess the required qualifications and skills (listed above), please do not hesitate to apply for this position even if you do not possess even one of these preferred qualifications.

1. Boots on the ground you live within a commutable distance of a major Lockheed Martin facility.
2. Social network you have a robust social network within Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems.
3. Cost modeling you have extensive experience with SEER Manufacturing, Price TruePlanning, DFMPro, aPriori, or comparable software.
4. High voltage you know what side of the battery the electrons come out of and have relevant manufacturing engineering expertise in electronics and/or semiconductors.
5. Life of the party youre gregarious and love meeting new people.
6. Love of learning - youve got an advanced degree, because learning is what you do. You only stopped studying because of external circumstances or because you wanted to avoid poverty.
7. Advanced engineering / systems thinking youve got numeric skills, the ability to visualize or otherwise understand complex systems, and you think optimization problems are fun. You can analyze 2nd or 3rd order effects. You might have completed coursework or have a degree in engineering, applied physics or some other similar discipline.
8. Familiarity with accounting you are not flustered by the language of business. You understand the purpose and the problems associated with overhead allocation. You might have completed coursework or have a degree in accounting or business administration. 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: Full-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work remotely full time at a location other than a Lockheed Martin designated office/job site. Employees may travel to a Lockheed Martin office for periodic meetings.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 weekClearance Level: None Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. 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. Theyre 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 Martins 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 ProfessionalBusiness Unit: RMSRelocation Available: NoCareer Area: Miscellaneous Engineering Type: Full-Time Shift: First