Job Description

Do you want to be part of a culture that encourages employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products? Are you looking for a growth opportunity where you can use your initiative to make a difference to a very important mission? Lockheed Martin Space is the prime contractor building NASA's Orion, the only spacecraft designed for long-duration, human-rated deep space exploration. Orion will transport astronauts to interplanetary destinations beyond low Earth orbit, such as the Moon and Mars, and return them safely back to Earth.

As a Mechanical Engineer on the Orion Program, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership of Aeroshell engineering tasks, including sustainment of composite and metallic structures and Thermal Protection System (TPS) hardware across the vehicle, with a primary focus on the crew module. You will be expected to coordinate with other Aeroshell senior engineers, Aeroshell Engineering Management, and Cost Accounting Management to properly allocate team engineering resources, support proposal work, control costs, release engineering, support manufacturing, interrogate hardware nonconformances, address requirements verification and integrate test efforts to certify and deliver aeroshell structural hardware and TPS components of the spacecraft.

Other responsibilities may include:

• Technical leadership and mentoring of junior engineers
• Participating in sustainment activities like anomaly resolution, supplier and manufacturing/ATLO support, Quality Note (Qnote) resolution and corrective actions, vendor requests for Information (VRICs) and test flags and anomalies
• Ability to work with in house manufacturing, ATLO, and outside suppliers to drive delivery of critical program hardware that meets requirements within applicable cost and schedule constraints
• Maintenance of the design configuration baseline to ensure continued certification compliance
• Assessment of performance against the baseline requirements
• Analysis of trends, and development of options to resolve production and operational issues
• Review requirements from various sources (dynamics, stress, systems, thermal, manufacturing, etc.) to ensure that applicable requirements are flowed into the detailed design of the products

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics or combination of coursework/relevant experience
• Fundamental understanding of other engineering disciplines including stress, dynamics, thermal analysis, production, electronics, and/or systems engineering, etc.
• Experience with structural design engineering and integration knowledge
• Experience with Pro/E, CREO, or other CAD software (such as SolidWorks, NX, Fusion360, Catia, etc.)
• Experience taking a design from concept, through design, engineering release, fabrication, testing, verification, and certification

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Lockheed Martin Certified Product Engineer (CPE) responsibilities
• Experience with Lockheed Martin specifications, tool, and procedures
• Engineering Material Review Board (EMRB) certification, or willingness to obtain
• Space flight hardware design and hands-on hardware experience
• Knowledge of composite structure design and fabrication
• Knowledge of thermal protection materials design and fabrication
• Experience with Fibersim (CREO extension)
• Experience with Windchill or other Product Data Management (PDM) systems
• Experience interpreting and implementing Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Coordinating stress, thermal and dynamics analysis
• Communicating design and analysis data to engineering teams, internal customers, and senior/executive leadership
• Working interactively with diverse engineering disciplines in a fast-paced environment to rapidly deliver innovative solutions for proposals, IRADs, and customer funded projects
• Experience with design for manufacture or producibility, traditional fabrication equipment (mills, lathes, sheet metal, welding, composite layup, etc.), and 3D printing
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and documentation
• Experience working with suppliers