Program Quality Engineer Associate - Early Career

Lockheed Martin•Titusville, FL

11d•Onsite

About The Position

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours. Please note, this role requires a Security Clearance prior to start and US Citizenship to start with the ability to obtain a Secret Security clearance. As we enter a new era of Strategic Weapon Systems, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our outstanding people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our creative skills and experiences to craft, design and build solutions to some of the worlds’ hardest engineering problems. Do you want to be part of a culture that encourages employees to think big, perform with perfection and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus - if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you! The Program Quality Engineer, will support the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Quality Program in Titusville, Florida. This opportunity, as the Quality Assurance Representative/Engineer, will be responsible for supervising overall implementation, maintenance, and compliance to quality requirements. You will also investigate Quality related support activities and supporting quality decisions associated with the effective implementation, operation, and assessment of Quality data. This role requires strong analytical skills and detail oriented. The role of the QPM is to implement the program’s Quality plan and lead the Quality team ensuring compliance to industry standards, contractual requirements and customer expectations. QPM serves as a single focal point for Quality & Mission Success (Customer, Program Management, Functions). They lead the Quality Program Team – all aspects including Hardware Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality, and Production Operations Quality – through all areas of the program / product lifecycle. QPM ensures communication and flow down of requirements to internal teams and external supply base. QPM may supplement Quality team surveillance as required. The QPM is responsible to develop and manage the Quality financial scope. QPM analyzes quality performance data (manufacturing data, engineering design metrics), identifies recurring issues, drives root cause analysis and corrective actions, and raises quality performance issues to senior leadership, as needed.

Requirements

Bachelors or Master's or higher level degree from an accredited college in any related discipline in an Engineering, Business, or Supply chain or any other related area.
Quality experience or related/ equivalent experience in a test or production environment.
Experience with quality, systems or manufacturing engineering processes or hardware engineering processes or policies or quality systems management or anything else related.
Ability to use Microsoft Office applications.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Experience directly engaging with customers.
Strong Customer Relationship Management.
Knowledge of SAP.
MS Office.
Manufacturing Engineering/Production Operations.
Familiarity with manufacturing or production documentation and failure reporting.
Root Cause and Corrective Action facilitation experience.
Understanding of Quality Management Systems (QMS).
Currently active Secret clearance
Previous experience in manufacturing and/or quality including inspection, testing, and certification of products.
Familiarity with Procure-to-Pay or SAP, EPDM, PMPDB, and other Lockheed tools that house engineering requirements.
Familiarity with reading Program Quality Requirements Checklists, Quality Codes, and QCode Matrices.
Strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Ensures Program Quality Engineering, Inspection and Auditor resources are in place to support surveillance activity and upcoming deliverables
Flows Program and Quality related information to Quality Program Team (QPT)
Reviews Quality data for trends (favorable or unfavorable) and performs root cause analysis as needed
Communicates with DCMA and end-contract customers regarding upcoming joint customer events
Collaborates with Engineering & Technology, Production Operations regarding process questions or changes.
Provides Quality activity progress update and accomplishments in support of business rhythm.