Job ID: 709067BR Date posted: Oct. 28, 2025
Description:In-Country Quality Leader for the F-35 Quality &
Mission Success organization located at the F-35 facility in Nagoya, Japan. The scope of this role includes day to day Quality leadership for Final Assembly & Check Out (FACO) as well as Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul & Upgrade (MROU). Responsibilities include providing technical assistance and advisement related to QA policies, procedures for tools, parts, assemblies, and complete aircraft operations, and practices related to quality oversight in manufacturing and field operations environments.
- Candidate will provide day-to-day direction as the lead for all LM Aero Quality and Mission Success organization personnel on-site at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to include supplier, production & sustainment quality.
- Candidate will provide technical assistance to MHI in the development of procedures and processes for material acceptance, material recall, inspection requirements and customer product acceptance including aircraft and support equipment as applicable.
- Candidate will be responsible for communications and coordination with LM-Aero, MHI, and DCMA/Japan Ministry of Defense personnel to ensure compliance of contractual quality requirements.
- Candidate will ensure that MHI meets Quality requirements and drives necessary action with LM & MHI team to ensure targets are met.
- Selected candidate will assist MHI with the
identification, development and coordination of
corrective and preventive action.
- In addition the candidate will assist with data reconciliation and aircraft presentation to the customer for in-process assessments and final DD250.
- Candidate will be required to interface within a
multi organizational environment, supporting the Technical Assist Team in Japan, all levels of management both on site and in Forth Worth, technical subject matter experts, production, sustainment and flight operations personnel, and customer representatives.

What’s In It For You
Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

***Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.***
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong working knowledge of the AS9100 industry standards and DCMA requirements.
- Knowledge of Material Review processes, inspection tools & techniques, and associated nonconformance documentation.
- Specific experience with material/aircraft survey
processes or modification completion and customer closure processes.
- Experience conducting causal analyses/problem
solving, corrective and preventive action, continuous improvement methods and techniques will be required to support operations.
- Ability to promote supplier understanding of
performance expectations, technical instructions and verification requirements for process and product compliance.
- Experience with interpretation of engineering
drawings and specifications.
- Aircraft Assembly, Sustainment or Flight line experience including aircraft release and DD250 Process.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
-Ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance per business requirements
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of Safety of Flight Inspections, customer coordination, and product/process verification responsibilities.
- Experience as an international customer support, field quality service representative.
- Design for manufacturing, Six Sigma, SPC, Green/Black Belt certifications.
- Japanese language skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Self-starter and able to work independently.
- Experience with F-35 final assembly or flight line
production verification for quality assurance.
- Previous leadership experience
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline
-10+ years of experience
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: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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 leader
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: Yes
Career Area: QA/Test and Inspection
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First