RF Comm Sr Manager - SPP

Company: Lockheed Martin Corporation
Location: Littleton
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Description: Come join the Lockheed Martin Space RF and Radar Center of Excellence (RFCoE) and shape the future!
The coolest jobs on this planet---or any other--- are with Lockheed Martin (LM) Space.
The RFCoE is seeking a hardworking, highly motivated Senior Manager to lead the RF Engineering team tasked with building state-of-the-art mission payloads across our Space Protection Programs (SPP) portfolio.
Selected candidate leads the RF product related efforts through payload development and delivery up to and then throughout space vehicle integration and fielding. This role covers the breadth of the SPP LOB programs and is responsible for managing all RF/Comm efforts therein (Comm IPT Lead). Responsible for cost, schedule, and technical performance of in-house and subcontracted products (CAM). Works closely with program subcontract managers and internal production teams to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality payload products. Reviews / approves all payload related program budget and schedule baselines and changes. Responsible for risk management of the IPT, systems verification/validation and technical oversight and coordination of the engineering corps in product dispositions, certifications, and anomaly resolution for all elements to ensure mission success. Acts as a key customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customer to ensure cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives are met. Establishes milestones, monitors adherence to master plans and schedules, identifies program risks and opportunities, and partners with the Chief Engineers to drive solutions to anomalies. Ensures program workforce is supported through hiring, training, mentoring, and talent development. Coordinates and prioritizes tasking, enables cross-team integration, and drives closure of actions, ultimately delivering mission payloads that meets customer and stakeholder objectives. Fosters an environment that enables full engagement of team members. This position is based in Littleton, Colorado.
To promote the sharing of ideas, Lockheed Martin nurtures an inclusive work environment that inspires diverse perspectives and big-picture thinking.
At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds' hardest engineering problems. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus, and if you have the passion and courage to dream big, we want to build a better tomorrow with you.
Basic Qualifications:
--- Excellent presentation, oral and written skills to facilitate effective and efficient technical and business interchanges with senior customer and management.
--- Demonstrated leadership and project management experience accomplishing program execution and strategic objectives
--- Demonstrated experience leading and developing high performing teams
--- Detailed knowledge of engineering and program planning throughout development, design, build, test, and integration phases
--- Ability to build key relationships across organizations internally within LM and externally with government customer to achieve organizational and program goals
--- Demonstrated experience with the risk management process.
--- Degree in engineering, math, physics or other related discipline or equivalent work experience
--- DoD TS w/ SCI
Desired Skills:
--- Recent record of bringing multi-disciplinary teams under his/her leadership to solve complex development or design issues and experience in the failure resolution/remediation process leading to mission success
--- Excellent presentation, oral and written skills to facilitate effective and efficient interchanges with senior customer and management
--- Successful candidate must demonstrate a commitment to the Full Spectrum Leadership attributes of shaping the future, building effective relationships, energizing the team, delivering results, and modeling personal excellence, integrity and accountability
--- Expertise and recent experience in contemporary design of spacecraft components or systems.
--- Experience leading teams or departments responsible for development of space hardware components subsystems, or systems.
--- Relevant experience in shepherding an engineering team through program level reviews such as CDR, or PDR.
--- Experience with supply chain and management of supplier developed hardware to include collaboration with enterprise subcontract management teams.
--- Experience in the production of in-house fabricated products to include collaboration with production, planning, and quality assurance organizations.
--- Experience in leading teams through change as well as operation across multiple production & test centers within LMS. Candidate will demonstrate strong team building, relationship building, and personal acumen skills to facilitate an effective and diverse team.
--- Successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to collaboratively manage expectations, resolve conflict, and set achievable results with a government customer team spanning from technical component and subsystem counterparts through senior management levels. Effective working in a fast-paced and dynamic multi-disciplinary environment
--- Control Account Manager (CAM) experience with demonstrated ability to perform program baseline control
--- Demonstrated technical depth in RF hardware, Antennas, RF electronics, processors, or related Electrical Engineering discipline
--- Ability to use a broad network of relationships across Lockheed Martin business areas to achieve program and organizational goals.
--- Development of requirements and interface definitions resolution/remediation process leading to mission success.
--- Business capture process, including estimating, architecture definition, and baseline control.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
Pay Rate:
The annual base salary range for this position in Colorado or Washington is $153,200 - $293,600. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full time employees: accrue 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO); receive 40 hours of Granted PTO annually for incidental absences; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of PTO per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO is prorated based on hours worked and start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: SPACE
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: RF Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First

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