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08-Nov-2021
Composites Materials & Process Engineer
Space
Pennsylvania
576315BR

Basic Qualifications
• Materials or process related background and/or field of study

• Experience and knowledge of fiber reinforced polymer and ceramic matrix composite manufacturing
and testing.

• Experience leading projects and teams to successful outcomes.

• Understanding of material properties definitions

• Good writing, communication and interpersonal skills

This position requires the ability to obtain a DOD security clearance. US Citizenship required.

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COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee
health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to
address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we
meet our commitments to national security.

As directed by Executive Order 14042: Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal
Contractors, all current and newly hired employees, in the United States, are required to be fully
vaccinated by January 18, 2022.

Job Code/Title
E1864:Materials Engineer Stf

Job Description
Are you ready to take your career to a new level and work at an extraordinary company?

The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space.

Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world every single day. Join
this highly innovative team providing ingenious solutions to complex technical problems facing the
aerospace industry. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus. If you have the passion and
courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

As a Materials and Processes Engineer you’ll work on a broad range of projects, in both a laboratory
and manufacturing environment, that will challenge you to learn and grow in your career. Working side
by side with designers, test and manufacturing engineers, you’ll use your education, experience and 
growing expertise to develop and evaluate new and innovative technology to survive in the most hostile
of environments.

In this role you will:

• Build upon existing composites experience to over time become an industry expert in the areas of
high temperature carbon and ceramic fiber-reinforced composite systems

• Become a project leader able to interact and provide technical oversight with vendors, team members,
and our U.S. Air Force Customer.

• Select Parts, Materials, and Processes (PMP) on new designs that will help defend our country

• Lead Materials and Processes (M&P) technical engineering assignments

• Troubleshoot problems and find innovative solutions

• Participate in the selection, qualification, testing, and failure analysis of materials & processes,
prepare technical and progress reports on assigned tasks, prepare specifications, evaluate suppliers
and analyze test reports

• Coordinate with other disciplines such as Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering,
and Procurement.

Typically looking for 14 to 19 years of professional experience

We're looking for:

• A self-starter who develops solutions to technical issues

• A motivated individual who's able to work closely within a geographically diverse team to resolve
technical issues

• Someone with the ability to handle shifting priorities, multiple projects and timeline pressure to meet
deadlines

• Someone comfortable with communicating in a variety of forums

• Someone willing to mentor and guide junior engineers

• Technical leadership of small teams or projects

• Proven ability to communicate key project information or recommendations to Program management

and /or Customers

• Ability to travel 25% of time once role is established

If selected you will need to obtain a DOD security clearance. US Citizenship required.

To promote the sharing of ideas, Lockheed Martin fosters an inclusive work environment that
encourages differences and big-picture thinking.

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 and Recognition

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/working-here#benefits

Desired skills
• Experience establishing and implementing technical requirements (specifications, program
plans/requirements, etc.)

• Knowledge of Materials and Processes for product development, improvement, design, application

and production

• Experience reviewing engineering drawings and/or specifications and providing guidance to design,
stress, and manufacturing engineers

• Non-conformance and failure analysis disposition experience

• Understanding of failure mechanisms of fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites.

• Knowledge and experience (can be indirect) with finite element modeling approaches involving fiber-
reinforced ceramic matrix composites.

• Understanding of atmospheric re-entry conditions and thermal protection systems on spacecraft and
re-entry vehicles.

• Awareness of other high temperature materials involving ceramics and metals.

Other Important Information

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.

Select the Telework classification for this Shift

position
First
Employee will work on-site full-time

Work Schedule Information

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.

Work Schedule
9x80 every other Friday off

Security Clearance Information

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

Security Clearance LMCareers Business Unit

Top Secret SPACE

Program Department
PMP Core Team 7HC4A00:Parts/Mtls/Processes Core Team

Job Class Job Category

Materials Engineering Experienced Professional

City, State City

King of Prussia-PA King of Prussia

Zip Virtual
19406 no 
Relocation/Housing Stipend Available Req Type
 Possible Full-Time

Direct/Indirect
Direct

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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.

EEO
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.

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