Description:
You will be the Senior Sustainment Engineer supporting the development, qualification, and lifecycle sustainment of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment. Our team is responsible for ensuring mission-critical hardware can be safely transported, stored, operated, maintained, and supported throughout the product lifecycle.
What You Will Be Doing
As the Senior Sustainment Engineer, you will manage the development and qualification of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment. You’ll work closely with engineering teams, suppliers, program stakeholders, and customers to ensure support equipment solutions meet technical, operational, environmental, maintainability, and contractual requirements.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the development and qualification of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment.
- Developing, revising, and executing detailed requirements documents, requirement verification plans, supplier statements of work, and test plans.
- Coordinating, participating in, or leading support equipment compatibility events to ensure equipment properly interfaces with supported hardware and operational needs.
- Supporting suitability and maintainability demonstrations to validate that support equipment solutions are practical, effective, and maintainable in field and depot environments.
- Planning and supporting fit checks, environmental test events, technical procedure reviews, and validation activities.
- Working cross-functionally with engineering, logistics, suppliers, field support, and program teams to resolve technical issues and ensure support equipment readiness.
- Reviewing technical data, drawings, specifications, procedures, and supplier documentation to confirm compliance with program requirements.
- Providing status updates, risk assessments, and technical recommendations to program leadership and key stakeholders.
- Supporting continuous improvement efforts focused on transportation efficiency, equipment reliability, maintainability, lifecycle affordability, and long-term sustainment performance.
Basic Qualifications:
- Active U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
- Technical engineering degree in an appropriate field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in field service, depot operations, sustainment, or a similar technical support role.
- Experience supporting military aircraft, missile systems, or related defense systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desired Skills:
- Experience interpreting technical manuals, engineering drawings, schematics, interface control drawings, and performance specifications.
- HAZMAT certification or experience handling hazardous materials in a technical, depot, or field support environment.
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 employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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.
Additional Job Details
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Product Support
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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