Job Description

Description:
Who We Are:
At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, were taking innovation to the next level. From designing the most advanced air vehicle to designing aircraft that defy gravity, our engineers live on the cutting edge of technology. Never have the opportunities for a technical career been so limitless.

Located in beautiful Sacheon, South Korea, our KF-X team supports our customer as the country pushes forward in developing their first domestically designed and produced, advanced multi-role fighter for the Republic of Korea Air Force. Join a vision 30 years in the making for our customer, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), to successfully expand the aerospace industry in Korea.

KF-X will be a highly advanced fighter aircraft. With the KF-X airframe structure recently assembled, help us finish what we started and see your work take flight as an in-country as a primary POC advising KAI engineers on all things Airworthiness planning and execution during Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase!

Why Lockheed Martin:
At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics we value your unique skills and expertise and we aim to give back continuously by offering a wide variety of benefits and amenities to help our employees live flexible, healthy, and fulfilling lives at and outside of work. Some of our teams favorite perks include:
The promotion of Work Life Balance and Flex Schedules
A competitive 401k match and bonus
Comprehensive Benefits including Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
Long term stability
A receptive and inclusive culture focused on career development with tuition assistance and mentoring opportunities
As an extra benefit, upon selection, the candidate will receive details of the long-term benefits package associated with this international assignment.

The Challenge:
Deploying from your current location, this opportunity as a technical leader, allows you to partner intimately with our team and customer as you provide critical technical advice, training, support, and leadership.

A Day in the Life:
This position will report technically to the Chief Engineer Lead and functionally to the Fighter Airworthiness Manager in Fort Worth. Joining our KF-X team, you will be embraced by a welcoming Korean people and become a part of an intimate group of production and engineering professionals all working together to make this amazing new Fighter reach its potential. Beyond that, you will experience living in a beautiful country known for its amazingly safe environment, comprehensive education at a local, international foreign school, high-tech lifestyle, and welcoming culture.

As a Technical Advisor, you will be overseeing multiple Airworthiness tasks simultaneously to identify and resolve task conflicts and issues and you will partner and serve as a trusted point of contact with the KAI engineering team.
Beyond that, you may also:
Provide training, guidance, support, and development assistance to KAI engineers
Provide feedback to KAI on airworthiness certification requirements, processes, implementation plans, criteria assessment approaches, and compliance documentation
Identify airworthiness certification risks and mitigation options, through coordination across engineering disciplines.

About You:
You have high proficiency in Airworthiness supporting aircraft design and a good working knowledge of related engineering disciplines that include aircraft subsystems, avionics, and components. You are dependable and well respected by your customers and thrive in an environment where you can help make everything run smoothly as a technical advisor.

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Basic Qualifications:
The following Basic Qualification are the skills that you must possess to be considered for this position:

Minimum 7 years of experience in supporting Airworthiness certification/flight certification of military aircraft
Bachelors degree from an accredited college
Experience with successfully mentoring and training engineers
Experience applying Airworthiness knowledge to assess aircraft design
US Citizen citizenship
Open to relocating to Korea with the ability to obtain a Korean VISA
Desired Skills:
The following Desired Skills are not required, but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the others:

Experience providing oversight to aircraft suppliers
Experience with new aircraft design and development
Familiar with military or government aircraft programs
Experience working with international customers and diverse engineering teams 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: The work associated with this position will be performed at the designated Lockheed Martin facility. Situational telecommuting may be considered and authorized at the discretion of your leader and based upon the role.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: Non- standard 40 hour work week as assigned by leaderClearance 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: AERONAUTICS COMPANYRelocation Available: PossibleCareer Area: Aeronautical Engineering Type: Full-Time Shift: First