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Fighter Test Engineering Principal, F-16 Aircraft Program
Greenville, South Carolina
JOB ID: 618231BR
Date posted: Oct. 24, 2022
Locations: Greenville, South Carolina
Program: F-16
COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.
To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID-19 Community Level at the specific work location.
Description: Our products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company's unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry. Our workforce of more than 30,000 has pre-eminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration.
Join the Greenville, South Carolina F-16 Production Engineering Team as a Test Engineering Principal to support stand up and development of the F-16 Test Engineering Team. The selected candidate will be responsible for the technical application and execution of test requirements across our build. Solid communication, technical skills, the ability to work independently, and drive other organizations, are essential for success. There is an expectation to ensure no gaps exist from engineering definition of aircraft systems tests to planning and implementation. Candidate will represent the organization across all levels including Senior Leadership to provide status and communicate solutions to complex testing constraints. Will be expected to conduct high-level (Director / VP) presentations and briefings. Candidate will fully own all technical execution aspects of test requirements across F-16 Production.
Must be a United States citizen. Must possess an active Secret Security Clearance.
What’s In It For You
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
Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Greenville, SC
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Basic Qualifications:
The following Basic Qualifications are skills that a candidate must possess to be considered for this position:
- Bachelor’s Degree accredited college
- Fighter Flightline experience
- Documented experience as Test Engineer or Manufacturing Engineer
- Leadership experience
Desired Skills:
The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from other candidates:
- F-16 Flightline experience
- Experience leading teams
- F-16 Testing Experience across all competencies (electrical, hydraulic, systems, etc.)
- Positive/self-starting attitude that is not slowed by perceived roadblocks
- Ability to coordinate and influence across a broad range of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex, large-scale technical issues/challenges
- Proven experience in developing strategies and translating them into action and results
- Demonstrated ability for decision making in uncertain environments
- Hands on experience on F-16 platform
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/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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: Systems Engineering: Other
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First