Manufacturing Engineer Asc

About the Role

Lockheed Martin is seeking an Associate Manufacturing Engineer for a position at the Mechanical Manufacturing Center (MMC), located on the Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colorado. The MMC Manufacturing Engineering team supports a variety of production areas, including traditional machining, mechanism assembly, composite fabrication, and structural assembly. The chosen candidate would join our collaborative team and support one or multiple of these areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform in a collaborative environment to develop and implement manufacturing processes, procedures, and production layouts for assemblies, equipment installation, processing, fabrication, and material handling.
• Drive adoption of new technologies and processes (automation, robotics, computer-aided manufacturing software, etc.) to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction, and quality improvement.
• Create and analyze 3D based model data environments to optimize manufacturing processes and digital work instructions.
• Leverage understanding of materials and automatic processes to define operations procedures and build sequences to drive operational excellence.
• Evaluate performance (including IoT devices, etc.) of equipment and tools to verify their efficiency and investigate and initiate corrective action for problems and deficiencies to ensure operational excellence.
• Leverage factory data to develop statistical process control approaches and integrate reporting and data analytics solutions for continuous improvement.
• Provide input to product design regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Provide shop floor support, maintain manufacturing plans, tooling requirements, engineering change implementation, and coordinate changes in the build process for a specific program or production area.
• Accomplish results by utilizing multi-functional teams, including Technicians, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Test Engineering, MRP/Parts Production Control, and Planning/Scheduling to meet program needs.
• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Interact across all levels of the organization; efficiently and effectively communicate and implement agreed-upon changes; navigate difficult situations and conversations to a productive outcome.
• Create procedures and operations for the fabrication and/or rework of hardware.
• Translate engineering drawings and parts lists into easy-to-follow work instructions for the production floor.
• Write production planning, inspect and assess defective hardware, and optimize production flow to meet program deliverables.
• Interface with shop floor personnel to implement process improvements to gain efficiencies and represent manufacturing in peer reviews of engineering drawings to enhance the design for manufacturability.
• Contact with immediate supervisor or lead, project leaders, and other personnel in the section or group.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college/university.
• Understanding of procedures, work instructions, technical writing, or similar with technical publications.
• Familiarity with reading and interpreting engineering drawings, bills of material, schematics, and specifications.
• Experience or familiarity with machining, assembly, and/or composite fabrication practices.
• Basic skill level in using 3D modeling systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with a team to reach goals.

Qualifications

• This position requires special access to support the program and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen.

Desired Skills

• Self-motivated and a quick learner.
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience writing procedures or work instructions.
• Basic knowledge of composite manufacturing methods and materials.
• Working knowledge of applying geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Familiarity with Lockheed Martin Space Systems or industry equivalent processes (manufacturing work instructions, production orders, bill of materials, root cause and corrective action, FOE/FOD, etc.).
• Familiarity with Lockheed Martin Space Systems or industry equivalent tools (ERP/SAP, EPDM, Manufacturing Execution Systems like Apriso, PMP Database, etc.).