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F-16 Reliability & Maintainability Manager - Level 5

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Job Responsibilities

Job ID: 716684BR Date posted: Feb. 10, 2026
Description:What You Will Be Doing:

You will be the Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Manager - Level 5.
You will be the manager of the Lockheed Martin Logistics Services (LMLS) Global Readiness Solutions (GRS) Sustainment Engineering F-16 Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) team. You will manage a team of 10-15 persons located in Fort Worth, TX.
Key Responsibilities
In addition to daily management tasks, you will participate in direct F-16 sustainment contract work, including:
- Interfacing directly with F-16 government customers and their contractors
- Interfacing daily with F-16 Program Managers and the F-16 Integration Office
- Interfacing with F-16 Engineering and Technology leaders to ensure alignment between the teams for technical requirements
- Leading the R&M team to ensure that R&M in strategically aligned with the F-16 Program and Sustainment Engineering objectives.
- Leading the execution of the R&M team to ensure compliance with program technical and sustainment requirements
- Leading the R&M team development to ensure present and future skills and proficiencies are aligned with program needs and objectives.
- Ensuring the F-16 R&M team executes with excellence within program cost and schedule allocations.
- Ensuring the F-16 technical planning is structured for success
- A successful candidate will:
- Have previous aircraft design and/or maintenance experience
- Demonstrate Full Spectrum Leadership skills in managing and growing a diverse team
- Simultaneously work long-term and short-term strategies


What’s In It For You:
From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus - if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (such as Aeronautical, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Physics) or equivalent experience and combined education that demonstrates a strong foundation in technical principles and practices.
- Familiarity with R&M Design, Analysis, and/or Testing tools, techniques and standards
- Aircraft design/maintenance and/or documentation experience (prior military or commercial experience)
- Demonstrated leadership or project leadership experience of large teams
- Proven ability to drive positive organizational change that delivers business results aligned with Aero 100 objectives
- Must be a U.S. Citizen; this position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
Desired Skills:
- Excellent Communication/Presentation Skills
- F-16 Sustainment and F-16 program experience
- Experience in the fields of Reliability and Maintainability for military aircraft
- Experience with contracting, including proposal work, execution, budget, cost, schedule, quality, and contract close-out
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
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: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
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 week
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: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Specialty Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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