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Job Title:  Chief Engineer Sr Mgr - L6
Posting Start Date:  9/17/26

Short Description

The selected candidate will report to the F‑22 Program Chief Engineer and will be responsible for managing the F‑22 Chief Engineer Office (CEO) team.

The Chief Engineer provides technical leadership and ensures the technical integrity of the F-22 across all life cycle and programmatic phases. Specifically,

  • Ensures the aircraft meets all performance and airworthiness requirements.
  • Verify that integrated, balanced design approaches and trade studies are executed in accordance with established design policies, methods, and process‑integrity standards. 
  • Communicate technical status, risks, and decisions clearly and timely.
  • Act as principal customer interface for technical aspects of the program.
  • Ensures requirements have been defined, met and verified resulting in a design that is robust with appropriate margins for producibility and operational availability/supportability.
  • Ensures program technical process discipline and consistency.

Standard Job Description

Accountable for all aspects of engineering and technology activities within a program, program area, or line of business to ensure mission milestones and business objectives are met. Serves as the primary technical authority / technical interface with internal program management and external customers. Ensures proposals have sound technical solutions and schedules and drive affordability. Leads a technical team of cross functional engineers to ensure successful proper system/product development and execution. Evaluates and ensures complex issues are resolved in a cost effective, innovative way. Champion mission success and drive a mission success culture. Directs a team into exploration of new problem solution areas with novel concepts and approaches, guiding scope definition and prioritizing problems for investigation. Determine appropriate risk posture and develop mitigation strategies for complex projects. Ensure selected designs are robust and include appropriate margins to facilitate safety, performance, producibility and operational availability/supportability. Ensures program plans and technical baselines are consistent with Program Control processes and Modern Engineering Practices. Responsible for key decision making that impact businesses, the failure to achieve the objectives result in critical impact of program capabilities. Ensures identification of lessons learned, and corrective action are initiated and implemented to improve future and ongoing programs. Provides technical mentoring and career development support of team and allocates resources effectively. Leads and directs the technical execution efforts of the program or LOB.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 10 years of professional work experience.
  • Experience being a team lead.
  • Experience working with cross functional teams.
  • Experience performing technical problem solving.

Desired Skills

  • F-22 program experience.
  • Experience working as a Chief Engineer.
  • Background in mission systems, vehicle systems or other aircraft development competency. Experience in managing a technical team.
  • Strong organizational, planning and time management skills.
  • Can communicate complex technical issues clearly to the customer, management and the engineering team.
  • Strong technical leader with the ability to lead a technically diverse team of direct reports as well as providing technical leadership to the overall program. Able to work in a fluid environment with changing priority and tasking while maintaining an even demeanor and positive attitude.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $182500.00 - $338900.00

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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.
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