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IRST Production Operations Senior Manager / Orlando, FL

Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

Job Responsibilities

Job ID: 706225BR Date posted: Sep. 25, 2025
Description:

You will be the Infrared Search and Track Production Operations Senior Manager for the Infrared Search and Track team. Our team is responsible for leading operations execution of complex defense programs.

What You Will Be Doing

As the IRST Production Operations Senior Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring successful planning, execution, and delivery of complex defense products. You will lead and/or participate in the development and implementation of operations execution strategies, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with program requirements and company goals.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Operations Leadership: Ensure successful planning, execution, and delivery of complex defense products, including leading and/or participating in the development and implementation of operations execution strategies, objectives, and deliverables.
  • Production Operations Management: Oversee all aspects of production operations management, including scope, schedule, budget, and risk management. You will manage detailed project execution plans and strategies, milestones, and timelines, and monitor operations execution progress, leading corrective actions and recovery plans as needed.
  • Stakeholder Management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with all internal and external functional partners, and key stakeholders, acting as the primary point of contact for production operations-related communications.
  • Team Leadership: Lead and mentor direct reports, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture, providing guidance and support to all production operations teams to achieve program objectives successfully and consistently.
  • Financial Management: Take ownership and accountability for production operations budgets and financial forecasts, being cost-conscious and ensuring financial targets are achieved, identifying and implementing cost-saving measures without compromising quality as required.
  • Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues, developing and implementing risk management plans and contingency strategies, ensuring compliance with all regulatory and contractual requirements.
  • Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and deliver regular production operations status reports to the program office, management, and customers as required, maintaining comprehensive information and documentation to ensure relevant production operations information is well-documented and traceable.

Why Join Us

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Production Operations Senior Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in program/operations management within the defense industry, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget. You will have exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams internal and external stakeholders to ensure Operating Plans (OP) are consistently achieved and customer contract deliveries are met on or ahead of schedule.

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.

Further Information About This Opportunity

This position is in Orlando. Discover more about our Orlando, Florida location.

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access. The selected candidate must be able to obtain a secret clearance.


Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience
- Strong knowledge of defense industry regulations and requirements, including ITAR, DFARS, and FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation).
- Experience working under Un-definitized Contract Actions and construction and commissioning of manufacturing facilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft office suite: Ability to create project and milestone charts, and use data and create value added presentations to report updates, status reports, etc.
- Proficiency in project management tools and software (ERP, Visio, Project etc.).
- Experience with customer and stakeholder communication
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship
Desired Skills:
- Master’s degree preferred – MBA, Engineering, or related field
- PMP or equivalent certification
- Earned Value Management System experience
- Experience leading cross functional teams and working across different business organizations and customer communities
- Proven experience managing large, complex programs with budgets exceeding $100 million.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with internal stakeholders and customers.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data and make data-driven decisions.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral, written, negotiation, and presentation skills.
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: 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: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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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
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Qualifications

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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.

  • Curious

    The ability to explore and drive new ideas. You think innovatively to come up with creative solutions to complex challenges.

  • 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.

  • Proactive

    The ability to anticipate, plan and prepare for what lies ahead. You act rather than react to potential situations.

  • Problem Solver

    You work to tackle tough problems with complex solutions.

  • 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

  • Healthcare

    Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

  • 401(k)/Retirement Plans

    Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

  • Professional Development

    We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs.

  • 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.

  • Paid Time Off

    We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

  • Flex-time

    Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

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