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The successful candidate will report to the PAC-3 Chief Engineer and be expected to work closely with the members of the IAMD Chief Engineering staff to ensure synergy across tasks and to communicate lessons learned, as well as other MFC Chief Engineers to ensure cross-program collaboration.\nWhat You Will Be Doing:\nAs a Chief Engineer supporting ACE, you will be responsible for:\nProviding technical leadership across all engineering disciplines to enable the team to meet all execution milestones for the program \nSupport the program through development and transition to production\nDeveloping a new missile as common as possible with Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, but with increased availability and lower cost. Being familiar with the PAC-3 launcher and interfaces along with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) will be a plus for this role.\nDeveloping and nurturing a productive partnership with the USG customer \nGuiding Engineering team, IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews \nEnsuring program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective \nCollaborating with Engineering Excellence management to ensure program milestones are successfully completed \nSupporting and leading program technical reviews and participating in monthly E&T meetings, staff meetings, and other critical program activities \nCommunicating lessons learned and ensuring synergy across tasks with the entire Chief Engineer staff \nAccountable for all aspects of engineering and technology activities within a program, program area, or line of business to ensure mission milestones and business objectives are met. Serves as the primary technical authority / technical interface with internal program management and external customers. Ensures proposals have sound technical solutions and schedules and drive affordability. Leads a technical team of cross functional engineers to ensure successful proper system/product development and execution. Evaluates and ensures complex issues are resolved in a cost effective, innovative way. Champion mission success and drive a mission success culture. Directs a team into exploration of new problem solution areas with novel concepts and approaches, guiding scope definition and prioritizing problems for investigation. Determine appropriate risk posture and develop mitigation strategies for complex projects. Ensure selected designs are robust and include appropriate margins to facilitate safety, performance, producibility and operational availability/supportability. Ensures program plans and technical baselines are consistent with Program Control processes and Modern Engineering Practices. Responsible for key decision making that impact businesses, the failure to achieve the objectives result in critical impact of program capabilities. Ensures identification of lessons learned, and corrective action are initiated and implemented to improve future and ongoing programs. Provides technical mentoring and career development support of team and allocates resources effectively. Leads and directs the technical execution efforts of the program or LOB.\nBasic Qualifications\nHave a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience \nMust have 8+ years of experience\nMust possess ability to plan and lead the technical teams/efforts associated with Complex Missile Systems\nMust be able to communicate technical status and issues internally to program leadership, technical leadership and functional leadership as well as externally \nMust be available for moderate domestic travel\nCandidate must have ability to obtain a Secret clearance \nDesired Skills\nAn advanced degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is desired \nPrior experience at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is highly desired \nPrior experience with the PAC-3 program and familiarity with the PAC-3 launcher, and its interfaces along with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) is highly desired\nProven experience in risk based decision making in a dynamic fast paced development environment\nProven experience as a conceptual thinker with the ability to translate into action and results \nWorking knowledge of dealing with subcontractors and subcontract technical management is a plus \nProven ability to understand and guide troubleshoot efforts for test failures \nCandidate should have wide experience/familiarity in collaborating with the Engineering & Technology functional organization \nAbility to interface with the USG Customer office and global supply base \nAbility to support technical reviews internally, with the customer, and external stakeholders, and at supplier locations \nExperience in leading Failure Analysis and Failure Review Boards \nPay Information\nFull-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00\nAt Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow-both professionally and personally.\nThe salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.\nBenefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.\nAnnual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.\nFor (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. 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