Job ID: 712557BR Date posted: Dec. 10, 2025
Description:We are Lockheed Martin

This position is hiring for an Industrial Engineering Manager role in support of Advanced Development Programs at our Palmdale, CA facility.

The Industrial Engineering Manager for Advanced Development Programs provides strategic visibility and analytical support across cost, schedule, staffing, and production capacity. By partnering closely with production operations leaders, the IE manager helps to ensure that program objectives are met on time, within budget, and with the right workforce resources. This role is pivotal in translating data into actionable insights that drive decision‑making and execution excellence for high‑visibility, high‑risk development initiatives.

This position requires collaboration with all functional groups through the entire product lifecycle within an advanced development program fabrication and assembly environment. Candidate will have the opportunity to provide valuable solutions to multiple organizations and align program priorities.

This is a mid-career leadership opportunity where you will:
• Apply advanced Industrial Engineering concepts and techniques to analyze business processes and reduce waste.
• Interrogate data systems and look for opportunities to surface problems and drive improvements.
• Provide oversite shop floor support, including methods of creating crew plans, burn down charts and performance metrics to optimize production.
• Oversee process improvement efforts, ensuring implementation and sustainment while demonstrating results.
• Train stakeholders and team members on Industrial Engineering principles.
• Optimize organizational structure, team communication and skill proficiencies to maintain a high performing team.

Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access. Must have the ability to obtain a secret level clearance.


What’s In It For You?
This is an opportunity to work in an environment with cutting edge product and manufacturing technology. In this role you will enjoy the opportunity to work in a teaming environment with high visibility to leadership. Your influence will drive significant decisions relative to positive impact to cost, quality and schedule. The opportunity for personal growth is enormous as you will be developing people, tools, processes, manufacturing plans and standard work. Your contributions will ultimately help protect our Freedom and the security of our country.

Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:
• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance per business requirements.

This position is in Palmdale, CA Discover Palmdale.
Basic Qualifications:
- Leadership/Management Experience

- Broad understanding of Industrial Engineering concepts

- Excellent interpersonal skills
Desired Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or similar field

- Experience practicing Industrial & Operations Engineering concepts

- Experience in a manufacturing or similar environment

- Proven success in leadership
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
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
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 $111,700 - $196,880. 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.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $128,400 - $222,640. 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.
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: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First