Reliability Engineer Associate

Lockheed Martin

Key Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs.
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes.
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards.
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives.
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches, or processes posing excessive failure risks.
• Proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
• Develop reliability and maintainability predictions using approved prediction methodologies.
• Perform Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) on flight hardware.
• Support design reviews and present reliability results to management and customers.
• Provide LRU and piece-part reliability support, including drawing reviews, repair review boards, and failure review boards.
• Support failure investigation teams and develop reliability / probabilistic assessments based on root-cause analysis.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, gathering inputs from other engineers to perform analyses and create presentations/reports.
• Interact regularly with engineers, suppliers, quality personnel, production operations, program managers, customers, and customer consultants.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Possess strong computer skills, including in-depth knowledge of MS Office software.
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with Reliability principles and practices.
• Understanding of root cause analysis.
• Experience performing basic electrical circuit analysis using schematics to assess the effects of failure modes.
• Analytical thinker with a demonstrated ability of solving complex problems, and strict attention to detail; effective analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high accuracy within requested timelines.
• Experience evaluating system level impacts from component level data.
• Strong technical writing skills for the preparation of plans and reports.
• Strong verbal communication skills for customer presentations.
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills

• Experience in Reliability, Quality, Systems, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• Knowledge and experience with probability, statistical concepts, and mathematical modelling.
• Reliability prediction experience in accordance with industry standards (e.g., MIL-HDBK-217, empirical test data, etc.).
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative and team-based environment.
• Able to multitask and manage competing priorities.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Experience with development programs.
• Previous defense or MFC engineering experience.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $58200.00 - $108200.00

The salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as 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

• 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
• 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: Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual and holiday hours vary for non-represented and represented employees.