Early Career Quality Engineer Associate

Job Description

About Lockheed Martin:

Lockheed Martin brings together people passionate about purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve complex global challenges. They pride themselves on employing some of the industry’s greatest minds, creating a positive work environment. The company prioritizes its employees, offering diverse career opportunities, flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits to promote a healthy work-life balance. Lockheed Martin emphasizes employee empowerment through innovation, integrity, and corporate responsibility. Their motto is “Your Mission is Ours.”

Job Description: Early Career Quality Engineer Associate (Job ID: 680935BR)

Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems seeks a full-time Early Career Quality Engineer Associate to provide leadership in quality engineering. This role involves developing and implementing quality plans, inspection methods, and first article inspections. A key responsibility is driving root cause and corrective action investigations to ensure quality standards are maintained throughout the product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading quality engineering efforts in planning, inspection, and first article inspection processes.
• Driving root cause and corrective action investigations.
• Ensuring quality standards are implemented and followed throughout the product’s life cycle.
• Maintaining effective communication with internal and external customers, including the DCMA and FAA.
• Coordinating with Engineering, Operations, and Procurement to resolve product quality issues.
• Contributing to the Product Quality team’s efforts in Daily Review Teams (DRT), Corrective Action Board (CAB), High Visibility (Hi-Vis) escape management, and data analytics to identify trends and maintain key quality metrics.
• Promoting continuous improvement through Enterprise Excellence tools like Relentless Root Cause Analysis and DIVE.
• Implementing standard work for key processes and supporting Product Operations initiatives.
• Supporting the Material Review Board, Quality Council, Product Safety, and ESH initiatives.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited university.
• Proficiency in MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Basic Quality Engineering knowledge.
• Familiarity with root cause analysis, mistake-proofing, and technical writing.
• US Citizenship.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Background in ISO 9001/AS9100.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.
• Experience with Sikorsky helicopter and/or aerospace products in a production/manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with Failure Analysis.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T).
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and processes simultaneously.

Work Arrangement: Part-time remote telework with a portion of the work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific schedule will be discussed during the hiring process. A 4×10 hour day schedule (3 days off per week) is available.

Relocation: Possible.