Job ID: 726734BR Date posted: May. 05, 2026
Description:You will be the Senior Reliability Engineer for the PAC-3 Launcher Sustainment Reliability Team. Our team safeguards product performance by identifying hidden failure risks, providing actionable metrics/corrective actions to program stakeholders, and delivering data driven mitigation strategies that keep our systems on track from concept through field service.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Senior Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for leading the FRACAS process and trending development, as well as data analysis to provide program stakeholders with actionable metrics to improve overall launcher performance. You will work hand in hand with design/quality/chief engineers, and program managers to surface risks early, quantify them accurately, and drive corrective actions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identify failure modes, root causes, and their effects on overall system performance.
• Assign criticality rankings, document mitigation strategies, and track them through each development phase.
• Update, analyze and trend all FRACAS data in Windchill.
• Automate available test data analysis tools and provide metrics to program stakeholders in a Corrective Action Board (CAB).
• Analyze test data, generate reliability growth curves, and report findings to cross functional stakeholders.
• Recommend design or material changes to improve reliability and reduce lifecycle cost.
• Mentor junior reliability engineers and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the reliability organization.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
• 3–5 years of hands on reliability engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in FRACAS and trend analysis.

• Strong root cause analysis, risk assessment, and data interpretation capabilities; comfortable working with large data sets and generating actionable insights.
• Proficiency with reliability analysis standards (such as MIL STD 1629A, IEC 60812, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of failure physics, degradation mechanisms, and material behavior under stress.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent analyses and test programs, meet deadlines, and maintain documentation control.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, technical writing experience, and an ability to perform oral presentations in front of large groups.
• Final Secret clearance required to start.
Desired Skills:
• Familiar with Model-Based Engineering tools (i.e. Cameo)
• Experience using reliability software (e.g., ReliaSoft, Weibull++) and statistical tools (Minitab, R, Python)
• Practical hands on experience with hardware test and troubleshooting.
• Analytical thinker with a demonstrated ability of solving complex problems which require ingenuity and innovation.
• Ability to manage subcontractors in the Reliability field of expertise.

• Manage/analyze/trend FRACAS database in Windchill Risk and Reliability .

• Experience with database management and automation (Excel, VBA, MATLAB).
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: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Product Support
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First