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 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics team to perform as the F-35 Aircraft Modification Lead located at Royal Air Force (RAF) Marham, United Kingdom. This role organizationally aligns with the Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and Upgrades (MRO&U) Operations Team for F-35 Global Sustainment (GS) and will be a direct report day-to-day to the F-35 Air Vehicle Depot Senior Manager in MRO&U Operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Act as the primary technical liaison for all post-delivery Time Compliance Technical Directive (TCTD) modifications at Marham Maintenance and Final Finishes (M&FF).
- Guide the successful implementation of F-35 modification efforts and act as project lead for applicable modification packages. Rally and align all support requirements; engineering, parts/kits, touch labor and tools with the team.
- Review and evaluate completion of modification efforts and provides feedback to the team for continuous improvement.
- Ensure compliance with Customer, Company, and Program procedures relative to the Aircraft Maintenance, Repair, and Modifications.
- Provide contractor site leadership complete sight picture for F-35 Post Delivery Modification development, support planning, integration, and implementation.
- Must be proactive and always utilize sound judgment; diplomatic with the ability to establish and preserve a creditable relationship with all personnel.
- Must be willing to work extended shifts including holidays and weekends.
- Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access. Must have 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.
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Basic Qualifications:
The following Basic Qualifications are skills that a candidate must possess to be considered for this position:
- Experience with fighter aircraft maintenance, operations and modifications.
- Aircraft depot maintenance or management experience.
- Must have experience manning, leading, and supporting all aspects of unit and depot level aircraft modifications including Contractor Field Team (CFT) support.
- Extensive background in Time Compliance Technical Directive (TCTD) implementation.
- Proven experience in coordinating mod/retrofit actions with diverse team of contractors and end users.
- Candidate must be proficient with researching and interpreting modification engineering drawings and manufacturing/material process specifications.
- Proficient using Microsoft Office products (i.e., Outlook, Word, Power Point, Excel, and Project) Suite.
Desired Skills:
The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the other candidates:
- Project management experience with strong organizational and communication skills.
- Experience working with and consulting Navy/Air Force service representatives
- Experience with JSF sustainment tools; Product Data Manager (PDM), JSF Data Library (JDL), Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).
- Knowledge and experience with program change/configuration management and associated change boards for processing change requests with retrofit implications.
- Military service at multiple levels of maintenance, logistics, and support of fighter aircraft.
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: Non- standard 40 hour work week as assigned by leader
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.
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: Aeronautical Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
