Description: We are Lockheed Martin

Our products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company's unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry. Our workforce of more than 25,000 has pre-eminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration.

Flight Test Control Engineer (FTCE) for Navy and Marine F-35 test aircraft at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The successful applicant will provide Flight Test Ground and Flight Operations engineering support. Duties will include coordination and execution of pre-flight and post-flight activities to ensure aircraft's test readiness. This includes issuance and closure of documentation relating to work performed on the aircraft and coordination of aircraft modification. Position is also responsible for control and tracking of aircraft configuration, coordinating and staging of support equipment, and coordinating with other organizations associated with test readiness.

The FTCE is the primary liaison between aircraft maintenance and engineering, communicating aircraft test configuration to responsible engineers and flight operations. The ability to interface with all levels of project management and effectively communicate, direct, and interact with other test team members, as well as external members to achieve mission success, is required.

Overtime, non-standard shifts, and weekend work will be required.

• Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

• Must have or be able to obtain at minimum an Interim Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain a Final Secret Security Clearance.

A level 2 employee Typically has 2 - 5 years of professional experience.

What’s In It For You

Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:

• Medical

• Dental

• 401k

• Paid time off

• Work/life balance

• Career development

• Mentorship opportunities

• Rewards & recognition

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Experience working in development, production or in a ground/flight test operations environment.

• Experience working with Aircraft Systems and/or Maintenance/Modification Procedures

Desired Skills:

• Secret Security Clearance

• Engineering Degree

• Schematics, Engineering documentation, reading /interpretation and their use during troubleshooting.

• Experience working with Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).

• Familiarity with JSF tools and processes including PDM, JDL, and VAS

• Self starter and logical problem solver.

• Excellent organization and communication skills

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: 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.

Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Aeronautical Engineering

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First