Systems Engineer, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering - Level 4

Standard Job Description

We are seeking a Level 4 Maintainability Engineer to support the design, development, verification, and sustainment of complex aerospace systems. In this role, you will apply maintainability and supportability engineering principles to ensure products can be inspected, serviced, repaired, and restored efficiently throughout their operational life. You will work across systems, design, logistics, test, manufacturing, and customer teams to influence design decisions early; reduce lifecycle support burden; and improve operational availability, maintenance effectiveness, and affordability.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Evaluate system and equipment designs, maintenance concepts, and support strategies to identify factors that affect maintenance execution, including support equipment, personnel, technical data, training, spares, facilities, safety, and lifecycle cost.
• Apply maintainability engineering methods to improve accessibility, diagnosability, fault isolation, repair time, modularity, interchangeability, human factors, and safe maintenance execution.
• Lead or support maintainability and supportability analyses, including maintenance task analysis, design assessments, maintainability modeling, verification planning, maintenance concept development, and technical-data development.
• Translate operational, maintenance, and lifecycle-support needs into clear, actionable engineering requirements, design criteria, and verification evidence for product development teams.
• Perform Maintenance Task Analyses (MTAs) to define preventive and corrective maintenance tasks, task sequence, skill levels, manpower, elapsed time, tools, support equipment, consumables, access requirements, and operational constraints.
• Assess design maturity and technical risk using maintainability metrics and analysis results; communicate findings and recommended corrective actions to engineering leadership and integrated product teams.
• Develop and execute maintainability verification plans, including inspection, demonstration, analysis, and test activities, to confirm compliance with program requirements.
• Support trade studies and design reviews by quantifying maintainability impacts on availability, manpower, maintenance burden, logistics footprint, and total lifecycle cost.
• Collaborate with reliability, systems engineering, logistics, human factors, test, and sustainment organizations to maintain traceability among requirements, analyses, design features, and verification evidence.
• Contribute to technical reviews, customer discussions, program planning, and preparation of maintainability-related deliverables.

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. For positions that perform IT responsibilities, use E646, Systems Engr-IT.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline; or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of related engineering experience, typically including progressively responsible maintainability, logistics/supportability, systems engineering, test, or related work.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering analyses or technical work packages from planning through delivery.

Desired Skills

• Experience performing Maintainability Analysis, Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA), or maintenance task validation.
• Experience developing or evaluating Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), maintenance-time distributions, maintenance labor estimates, or maintainability allocations.
• Experience assessing operational availability, maintenance burden, logistics footprint, lifecycle cost, or supportability metrics.
• Experience working in a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.

• Experience applying AI or machine-learning tools to engineering data analysis, knowledge retrieval, anomaly detection, or workflow automation, with appropriate validation and data-governance controls.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $104900.00 - $194700.00

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The 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.

Benefits 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.

• Annual 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.
• For (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. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.