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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, home of the world-renowned Skunk Works®, turns visionary aircraft into reality and is known for building the finest military aircraft in the world. This recognition is continually earned through our commitment to relentless research and development of high-performance aircraft, continuously seeking innovative, low-cost design and manufacturing strategies, and delivering operational readiness for our customers' missions to ensure continued relevancy for the life cycle of our products.

In this role, you will immediately impact the business with your ingenuity, creativity, and ideas that will be the catalyst for future business. If you are craving an opportunity where you are invited to be passionate, push the envelope, and think outside of the box, this opportunity with our Skunk Works may be just for you.  We ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready.

As a Manufacturing Engineer in Skunk Works®, you will play a critical role as liaison between our design engineering teams and the elite women and men responsible for building tomorrow’s future in an advanced manufacturing and technology facility.  

Key duties for this position include:

• Leverage model-based engineering tools (PLM/MES) to facilitate creation of Production Planning/Work Instructions for build

• Interface with shop floor personnel to help resolve build issues, including troubleshooting PLM/MES/ERP data flows, and implement process improvements to increase efficiency

• Provide guidance to team of hourly/represented planners and oversee creation and release of build documentation

• Provide guidance and oversee all planning modifications related to engineering revisions and MRB activities.

• Support Manufacturing Engineering planning system upgrades, modifications and new system integration

• Work in parallel with design engineering, quality engineering, supply chain organizations, and production operations

Performs in a collaborative environment to develop and implement manufacturing processes, procedures and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, fabrication, and material handling. Drives adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement. Creates and analyzes 3D based model data environment to optimize manufacturing process and digital work instructions. Leverages understanding of materials and automatic processes to define operations procedures and build sequences to drive operational excellence. Evaluates performance (including IoT devices, etc.) of equipment and tools to verify their efficiency and investigates and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure operational excellence. Leverages factory data to develop statistical process control approaches and integrates reporting and data analytics solutions for continuous improvement. Provides input to product design regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.

This role may require infrequent travel, extended hours, and possible weekend/off-hour support. 

The ability to obtain a Secret security clearance is required.

This position can filled at either 3 locations:

Marietta, GA 
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Fort Worth, TX 
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Basic Qualifications

• Manufacturing Engineering and/or Production Engineering experience

• 3DX Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software experience (Dassault Systèmes)

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) experience 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline

• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance

Desired Skills

• Manufacturing Engineering experience in a model-based engineering environment

• Manufacturing Engineering/Production planning experience

• SAP/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software experience 

• Production/build execution support experience

• Experience working directly with shop floor mechanics and/or represented workforce

• Ability to communicate effectively across cross-functional teams (e.g. Engineering, Quality, Production Control, Supply Chain)

• Experience with model-based software vendors

• Quality and Root Cause and Corrective Action experience