F-16 Production Liaison Engineer - Entry Level

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Greenville, South Carolina
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Job Description
At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Mission-Focused Innovation: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can solve the world's most complex challenges for our customers.

Foundational Values: Our culture of performance excellence, ethics, teamwork and inclusion is embedded in everything we do.

Diverse Career Opportunities with Meaningful Work: Grow your career and skills for life. Our technology-driven learning platforms and programs enable your development and agility.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Our flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities and our planet.

Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:
Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions

Benefits
HEALTHCARE

Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

401(K)/RETIREMENT PLANS

Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs.

MATERNITY AND PATERNITY LEAVE

Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.

PAID TIME OFF

We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

FLEX-TIME

Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

Job Responsibilities

F-16 Production Liaison Engineer - Entry Level

Greenville, South Carolina

JOB ID: 634631BR
Date posted: Apr. 05, 2023
Locations: Greenville, South Carolina

Description: F-16 Production Liaison Engineer- Greenville, SC

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.

Join the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics team at our Greenville, South Carolina facility! Here in Greenville, our Engineering Group is multi-talented and working together to perform as an integrated Engineering team with responsibility to support the Production of the new F-16 VIPER Block 70/72. Our global reach and technical depth offer an endless amount of opportunities for up-and-coming engineers seeking a place to make their mark or for seasoned engineers seeking their next career challenge. Join us and see where your Lockheed Martin Aeronautics journey will take you! You will work on the Production floor, under direction of engineering leadership, interacting with Production personnel and other Functional groups to ensure the F-16 Viper aircraft is built and delivered to our Customers. This position will provide the entry level candidate with understanding of the F-16 engineering design with direct production support for the Block 70/72 upgrade build. The primary function as an F-16 Block 70/72 Production Liaison Engineer beyond formal training will include support of detail fabrication, sub-assembly, component assembly, and aircraft mate through delivery operations.

Other responsibilities include:
  • Design Engineering support and disposition for production build discrepancies with aircraft detail parts, assemblies, installations and finishes to augment workflow on the aircraft production line.
  • Supporting Material Review Board (MRB) engineering in their anomaly investigation and technical solution development as the result of non-conforming engineering discrepancies.
  • Understanding and implementing the technical principles, theories and concepts of aircraft structure design.
  • Learning the use of detailed aircraft modeling of structural assemblies using CATIA V5 and CADDAM, • Participating in trade studies and coordinating with other Product Teams.
  • Learning to coordinate across functional areas and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics sites including Stress, Quality Assurance, Planning, Functional Test, Structures, Systems Design, Safety, Materials & Processes and Flight Sciences.
  • Working closely with the production floor, supporting process improvements, incorporating best practices into daily operations, and coordinating lessons learned with corrective action.
  • Making timely decisions with the ability to perform research under the direction of a senior engineer to provide engineering dispositions to the active F-16 Production Line.
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
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree with 2 years experience or Masters Degree with no experience

Desired Skills:
  • Familiarity with aircraft structure and subsystems
  • Knowledge of aircraft/engineering drawings
  • Knowledge of aircraft manufacturing methods and techniques
  • Knowledge of aircraft materials and processes
  • Able to collaborate in a team environment
  • Good communication skills
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
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.
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

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Engineering
Full Time
Onsite
Competitive
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2 years ago