RF Engineering Sr Manager – Lockheed Martin

Job Description

Description:Come join the Lockheed Martin Space RF and Radar Center of Excellence (RF CoE) and shape the future! You can work on challenging programs in support of Space Vehicles, Hypersonics, Missile Defense and more.

The coolest jobs on this planet…or any other… are with Lockheed Martin (LM) Space.

At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing team is on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds’ hardest engineering problems. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

As a Payload IPT Lead with Space, you would:

• Direct all phases of COE-related program work from inception through payload development, demonstrations, delivery, and Space Vehicle integration.
• Responsible for cost, schedule, and technical performance of the communications payload subsystem across all payload IPTs.
• Approve all COE-related program budget and schedule baselines and changes.
• Coordinate preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets, and financial terms/conditions of contract.
• Act as primary customer contact for program payload activities, leading program review sessions with customer to ensure cost, schedule, and technical performance goals are met.
• Establish design concepts, criteria, and managesRF, processing, and systems engineering efforts for product research, development, integration, and demonstration.
• Develop new business within the CoE, and align RF and processor product line developments with the program payload.
• Establish milestones, monitor adherence to master plans and schedules, identify program problems, and obtain solutions via real-time management of allocation of resources and changes to contractual specifications.
• Ensure program workforce is supported through hiring, training, mentoring, and talent development.
• Coordinate and prioritize tasking, enable cross-team integration, and drive closure of actions, ultimately delivering a communications payload that meets customer and stakeholder objectives.
• Foster an environment that enables full engagement of team members.
Basic Qualifications:
• Excellent presentation, oral and written skills to facilitate effective and efficient technical and business interchanges with senior customer and management.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management experience accomplishing both strategic objectives and execution of programs simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high performing teams
• Control Account Manager (CAM) experience with demonstrated ability to perform program baseline control
• Detailed knowledge of engineering and program planning throughout development, design, build, test, and integration phases
• Successful development and delivery of space-qualified RF, processor, and/or space-qualified electronics and systems
• Ability to build key relationships across organizations internally within LM and externally with government customer to achieve organizational and program goals
• Demonstrated experience with the risk management process.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, physics or other related discipline or equivalent work experience
• Active DoD SECRET security clearance
Desired Skills:
• Effective working in a fast-paced and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment
• Experience with program lifecycle execution from concept phase through end-of-life phase
• Ability to use a broad network of relationships across Lockheed Martin business areas to achieve program and organizational goals.
• Experience creating and managing product development through technology maturation roadmaps.
• Experience with procurement and management of supplier-developed hardware to include collaboration with enterprise subcontract management teams.
• Experience in production of in-house fabricated products to include collaboration with production, planning, and quality assurance organizations.
• Development of requirements and interface definitions resolution/remediation process leading to mission success.
• Business capture process, including estimating, architecture definition, and baseline control.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering
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