Mid-Career On-Site Hardware Engineer

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of solid rocket motor designs and processes.
• Understanding of mechanical and propulsion engineering principals
• Desire and ability to own technical challenges through solution
• Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance

Come join our team as our next Propulsion Engineer!

In this role you will support the engineering team by conducting on-site integration including design, development, manufacturing, test, and integration for flight as well as ground systems.

Your duties will include responsibility for being an on-site liaison for the design, manufacture, procurement and test for the propulsion system components and assemblies. This job requires coordinating with customers, suppliers, test facilities, and other related fields including manufacturing, subcontracts, quality, structure design, analysis, systems engineering, and integration with affected subsystems and facilities. Other duties may include:

• Participate in shop floor and production hardware processing on-site at partner facilities. Provide input to address nonconforming hardware, process planning, support production meetings, and work with supply chain to assure that design requirements are met.
• Support Subsystem Integration
• Assist on the conceptual development, requirements definition, and design of propulsion components
• Perform trade studies to select the appropriate design solution
• Develop product performance specifications, statements of work, and supplier data requirements for components
• Evaluation and dispositioning of MRB items for boost rocket motor components
• Ability to work on a multi-disciplined team performing structural design trades, detailed design/analysis activity and performance and maintenance assessments of operational systems.
• Support dynamic test definitions, requirements development, test monitoring, data reduction, and comparison to analysis efforts.
• Provide user documentation and recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and design review.

• Strong understanding of solid rocket motor system design, development, and manufacture
• Hands‑on hardware experience
• Familiarity with Propulsion system integration
• Ability to collaborate effectively with adjacent fields (systems engineering, electronics, structural/thermal analysis, configuration management, production, test, quality…)
• Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non‑technical audiences
• DoD Secret security clearance

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.

Onsite Full‑time:
The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.