Job ID: 710730BR Date posted: Dec. 17, 2025
Description:Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.

What does this role look like?

For over 70 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy’s mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense! We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure. The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.

As a part of the FBM team, we can build, replenish, & modernize this crucial national asset with today’s tools & technology to benefit the world, the nation, our states, and our communities!

Learn about the Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile.

As the FBM Reentry Systems Engineering Manager, you will:
• Serve as the Functional Leader for a diverse team of systems engineering supporting the Mk4B program, FBM Reentry Interfaces, the D5LE2 program, and related Advanced Programs
• Operate as leader of leaders, supporting the growth and development of sub-tier leaders to ensure all functional and personal responsibilities are met, in support of successfully execution of the Reentry directorate.
• Be responsible for staff planning and tracking activities, to include program need assessment, hiring, and onboarding activities.
• Collaborate with the Systems Engineering functional leadership within the Reentry directorate, to identify and resolve personnel and technical issues, and execute functional and programmatic initiatives.
• Provide technical, functional, and programmatic support directly to the FBM Reentry Chief Systems Engineer.
• Partner with teams across LM and externally (DOE, Navy SSP/SPF) to enable successfully systems engineering support across associated programs.
The position requires full-time onsite support at our Lockheed Martin Space facility in Denver, Colorado. The work schedule for this position is a 9-80 flex schedule.

The Systems Engineering Manager will be required to provide functional leadership and demonstrate LM Full Spectrum Leadership.
Basic Qualifications:
• Working knowledge of Systems Engineering methods and processes
• General Technical or Functional Leadership
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following Systems Engineering sub-disciplines:
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Requirements development
- Verification processes - Interface management
- Risk and opportunity management
- Critical skills assessment
- Engineering metrics
• Secret clearance with ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance
Desired Skills:
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to promote teamwork with internal customers
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills
• Proficiency with standard documentation and presentation tools (MS Office tools)
• Bachelors or higher degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education with commensurate years of professional experience.
• Prior experience in missile or reentry systems sustainment or development programs
• Demonstrated expertise in systems engineering sub-disciplines to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirements development, verification processes, interface management, risk and opportunity management, critical skills assessment, engineering metrics
• Experience working autonomously and efficiently across organizational and product interfaces in a collaborative, multi-task environment
• Systems engineering knowledge, with experience support development programs
• Strong interpersonal skills and successful in working in a team environment
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with component, subsystem, and system levels
• Familiarity with the Navy SSP customer
• Knowledge of the FBM program and processes
• Experience interfacing and working collaboratively with the Department of Energy (DOE)
• Experience in creating and delivering compelling presentations, and communicating to both direct functional and program leadership in addition direct reports
• Demonstrated ability to establish close working relationships with key senior leaders and customer executives
• Ability to work to build consensus among peers and effective relationships with team members
• Experience with cost estimating to support proposal basis of estimates
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top 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: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $128,400 - $226,435. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Other
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First