Job Description
Job Title:  Aeronautical Engineering Director- L7
Posting Start Date:  11/9/26

Standard Job Description

The ADP Integrated Engineering (IE) Vehicle Systems and Sciences (VS&S) Director provides dedicated line-leadership and delivers VS&S engineering resources to meet program commitments, ensuring program performance and outcomes within the ADP Line of Business (LoB). This includes ensuring the supply meets the demand for engineering resources as well as providing functional best-practices and lessons learned to improve performance. Additional tasks include workforce management within LoB programs and contracts, external hiring, and talent negotiations across other lines of business. The Integrated Engineering team partners with Enterprise Technologies to ensure that common process and Enterprise Engineering factory outcomes are leveraged consistently across the LoB engineering teams.

This position partners with Systems Engineering Integration Teams to lead activities spanning development, production, and sustainment contracts, ensuring cost, schedule, and technical commitments are met across all VS&S competencies: propulsion, power‑thermal management, electrical power systems, fluid, mechanical, crew, landing & arresting gear, mass properties, flight controls, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, and vehicle‑systems integration.   This position is responsible for subsystem performances across all facets of the lifecycle, including owning the Product Lifecycle Manager roles for vehicle systems subsystems. This position manages supplier technical performance across VS&S subsystems.  This position ensures the appropriate basis of estimate development, identifies risks and opportunities, oversees delivery to commitments, and determines issue resolution as part of program integrated product team.

This position sets strategic direction of the ADP vehicle systems and sciences portfolio, overseeing workforce strategy development and execution, leading and supporting critical strategic imperatives, enhancing engineering excellence, integrity and quality in VS&S.  Works in partnership with Enterprise Technologies to shape, adopt and implement model-based engineering factory activities to enhance the performance of the ADP programs. Collaborates with Enterprise Technologies to leverage technical solutions across the corporation.

Basic Qualifications

  • Appropriate technical degree from an accredited college
  • Experience with leading multiple technical teams simultaneously
  • Experience in Vehicle Systems, Design, Development, Integration
  • Secret clearance

Desired Skills

  • Top Secret clearance;
  • Experience with Workforce Development;
  • Experience with MBE (model based engineering) adoption;
  • Experience with Subsystems lifecycle management;
  • Experience with Supplier Technical Management;
  • Experience with Change Management;
  • Experience with Digital Transformation;
  • Experience with Agile Methodology;
  • Experience in Program Management.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $180000.00 - $325000.00

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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.