Job ID: 704156BR Date posted: Sep. 09, 2025
Description:You will be the Program Quality Engineering Associate Manager for the S&GS team. Our team is responsible for applying quality principles to ensure the highest standards of product or process quality for make and/or buy products, spanning design, production control, product evaluation, and research and development.

What You Will Be Doing:
As the Program Quality Engineering Associate Manager, you will be responsible for leading and driving quality excellence in all aspects of product development and production, from design to delivery. You will apply technical expertise to evaluate product requirements, specifications, and designs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality standards are met.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Collaborating with program management, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and customers on quality-related issues
- Conducting product failure investigations, material review board decisions, and corrective/preventive actions
- Developing strategies to improve internal and supplier performance and productivity
- Evaluating quality systems for deficiency identification and correction
- Designing and analyzing inspection and testing processes, and conducting product quality tests
- Engaging in supplier selection and certification programs
- Reviewing documentation to ensure quality products are delivered to customers
- Analyzing and resolving process issues, and leading program corrective action meetings
- Participating in Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards to disposition non-conforming hardware and identify root causes
- Performing assessments and audits to ensure compliance with specifications and procedures

Why Join Us:
We're looking for a collaborative and detail-oriented quality professional to join our team. As a Program Quality Engineering Associate Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality of our products and processes. You will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals who are passionate about delivering exceptional results. If you're a motivated and analytical individual who is committed to quality excellence, we encourage you to apply.

Further Information About This Opportunity:
This position will be located at a facility that requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen. Secret clearance required prior to start.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors level degree or higher in STEM and/or equivalent experience/combined education
- Must be able to obtain a Secret security clearance prior to start
- This position will be located at a facility that requires special access and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen.
- Experience designing and analyzing inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment; conducting product quality tests, performing statistical analysis to assess products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
- Experience with corrective and preventive action and experienced as a team lead and facilitator
- Ability to work with multiple internal and external customers, including DCMA customers
- Experience implementing Process Mistake-proofing process controls
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to effectively interact, communicate, and build strong relationships with management at all levels, as well as with customers and stakeholders
Desired Skills:
-Bachelors level degree or higher in STEM preferred

-Previous leadership experience in a manufacturing union environment.

-Lockheed Martin Green or Black Belt certification, with a proven track record of business performance improvement.

-Familiarity with developing Statistical process Control run charts.

-Expert in MS Office

-Experience evaluating and implementing technology insertions into business processes.

-Prior manufacturing experience with circuit card, wire harness, electo-optical manufacturing

-Experience with 1LMX and/or DX initiatives
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: QA/Test and Inspection
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First