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 preeminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration.
Start your new and rewarding career with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Field Sustainment (AFS) Team as an Aircraft Maintenance Quality Delivery and Sustainment Specialist on our F-35 Program! This position is part of the Quality Management team supporting F-35 aircraft Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) maintenance operations at Leeuwarden Air Base, Netherlands.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide Quality oversight of Lockheed Martin CLS Team through scheduled and unscheduled surveillance activities to ensure qualifications, process and procedures meet DCMA 8210 and AS9110 requirements
- Assist with Root Cause Analysis and developing Corrective Action Plans for non-conformities. Provides recommendations through the Corrective Action Request Review Board (CARRB) to Site Leadership.
- Manage the investigative process for any quality related nonconformity, incident, accident, mishap or infraction, ensure good housekeeping and safety practices are followed.
- Facilitate the Enterprise Sustainment Quality (ESQ) iCAR process, to include the CARRB.
- Manage the Preventative Corrective Action Management System (PCAMS) administration process.
- Assist with managing and monitoring the CLS Environmental Health and Safety (ESH) program manager
- Manage and monitor the CLS Foreign Object Debris (FOD) program.
- Prepares and submits Quality metrics and reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information, and trends including failed process, recalls, corrective actions, and validations.
- Identify and facilitate opportunities for Continuous Process Improvement for both processes/procedures and the Quality Management System
- Facilitate the initiation, completion and submission of aircraft, support equipment, and equipment/tooling damage Incident Reports.
- Manage the site local Command Media requirements to ensure document control, currency, availability and access.
- Support of the customer's operational requirements, including possible short term deployments on board country ship(s.)
- Engages and addresses Quality Manage System issues.
- Engages and addresses third party vendor liaison on Quality concerns
- Assist Maintenance Managers in tracking currencies and expirations of employee ESH training courses and occupational health examinations IAW Italian law.
- Assist Maintenance Managers in scheduling recurring training courses and exams with local Safety consultancy firm and LM-assigned occupational health doctor's office staff, respectively.
- Must possess a valid State Driver's License.
- Must be willing to deploy to various locations (within and outside the country.)
- Must be willing to work any shift, weekends and holidays as required.
- Initiate and manage the Action Request (AR) process.
- Implement Quality Assurance Plans, policies and audit schedules with Maintenance personnel.
- Must be a United States citizen. Must possess at minimum an Interim Secret Security Clearance and must be able to obtain a Final Security Clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
Basic Qualifications:
The following Basic Qualifications are skills that a candidate must possess to be considered for this position:
- Minimum 6 years of aircraft maintenance experience (within past 10 years).
- Must have been previously been awarded a USN/USMC CDI/CDQAR, Air Force 7 Level qualification or equivalent.
- Must possess 3 years of experience in a Quality role in a military aircraft maintenance environment.
- Experience with the following: Safety programs and associated data bases, Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE)/Ground Support Equipment (GSE); Maintenance Information Systems; Tool & FOD industry standards and Calibration management and procedures.
Desired Skills:
The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the other candidates:
- Undergraduate degree in relevant studies from an accredited university
- Ability to speak/read Dutch language
- International Expat experience
- Experience interfacing with NATO customers
- Experience with F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS)
- Experience with composing and submitting F-35 Action Requests
- Experience in conducting audits utilizing AS9110 Aerospace Standard and DCMAI 8210
requirements.
- At least 2 years on a 5th Generation platforms.
- Experience in the CAR/iCAR process
- Green Belt certification or other Continuous Process Improvement experiences
- Experience in developing and implementing Tool Control and FOD policies.
- Experienced with Quality plans and policy development
- Familiar with AS9100 Aerospace Standard internal audit processes
- Familiar with DCMA Instruction 8210.1C in association with aircraft ground operations and related aircraft maintenance programs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven ability to work independently with minimum direct supervision
- Proven ability to interface with leadership, quality team, technical experts, and subject matter experts
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
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: 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: QA/Test and Inspection
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
