Labor Relations Manager
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Job Responsibilities
Description:
Help shape the future of one of the world's leading aerospace organizations.
As a Labor Relations Manager, you'll lead a team of Labor & Employee Relations professionals while serving as a strategic advisor to business leaders across Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. You'll influence labor strategy, guide complex employee relations matters, lead collective bargaining negotiations, and help foster a positive, high-performing workplace within a unionized manufacturing environment.
This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact by partnering with leaders, developing your team, and helping drive business success through effective labor and employee relations.
What You'll Be Doing
• Lead and develop a team of Labor & Employee Relations professionals, providing coaching, mentorship, and performance leadership.
• Serve as the primary advisor to leaders on labor strategy, contract interpretation, employee relations, and workplace conflict resolution.
• Lead collective bargaining negotiations, develop negotiation strategies, and serve as chief spokesperson during labor negotiations.
• Partner with union leadership to build productive labor-management relationships while representing the company's interests.
• Provide guidance on grievances, arbitrations, investigations, disciplinary actions, and labor contract administration.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners and Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated workforce solutions.
• Use workforce analytics to identify trends, mitigate risk, and support strategic business decisions.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing culture that supports employee engagement, leadership development, and continuous improvement.
What’s In It For You
We are committed to supporting your work life balance and overall well being, offering flexible scheduling options.
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:
• Ability to build effective relationships and partner with business leaders to influence labor relations practices, strategies, and philosophies
• Ability to develop and maintain positive employee relations between union officials and business leaders
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to prepare and deliver persuasive and well-organized ideas in both written and verbal form; effective listening skills
• Ability to coach and guide team members using industry-accepted techniques and tools, such as Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) and Culture of Accountability to deliver exceptional employee and leader experiences
• Knowledge of state and federal laws affecting the employment of hourly-represented employees, including FMLA, ADA, NLRA, EEOC, FEHA, Title VII, State Unemployment, and FLSA
Desired Skills:
• Certification(s) in Labor Relations, arbitration advocacy, or mediation
• First chair negotiations experience
• First chair arbitration advocacy
• Experience performing investigations, using effective techniques
• Experience adjudicating disciplinary matters
• Experience with grievance administration, including settlement negotiations and contribution toward preparation and/or arbitration advocacy
Clearance Level: None
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: Human Resources
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
About
At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.
Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.
United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.
Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.
Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.
Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.
Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:
- Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
- Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
- Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions
Qualifications
See what it takes to be a successful Lockheed Martin employee.
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Collaborative
There is no innovation without imagination. You bring new, different and exciting ideas to the table every day. You are committed to the success of your team.
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Curious
The ability to explore and drive new ideas. You think innovatively to come up with creative solutions to complex challenges.
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Goal-oriented
From planning and organizing to decision making, goal orientation produces impactful results. You set goals and strive to make things happen quickly and efficiently.
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Proactive
The ability to anticipate, plan and prepare for what lies ahead. You act rather than react to potential situations.
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Problem Solver
You work to tackle tough problems with complex solutions.
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Strategic
You observe, reflect and analyze processes to make more informed decisions.
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“Before I came to Lockheed Martin, I never thought I’d get these opportunities. The benefits available and the company’s value culture make it an incredibly supportive place to work, and I’m grateful to work somewhere that wants me to succeed. I hope to have a long career here making an impact, and I know I’ll be supported in doing that every step of the way.”
Ryan J., Enterprise Operations
Benefits
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Healthcare
Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.
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401(k)/Retirement Plans
Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.
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Professional Development
We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs.
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Maternity and Paternity Leave
Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.
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Paid Time Off
We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.
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Flex-time
Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.
