PGNES Operations Program Lead​/Archbald, PA

You will be a Production Operations Lead for our Lockheed Martin Archbald facility. Our team is committed to delivering high-quality products, and you will play a critical role in ensuring that our production operations meet quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

As a Production Operations Lead, you will be responsible for guiding production operations activities for any variety of programs within the Archbald facility. Serving as the primary interface between functional production teams and program or production operations management, you will provide direction, coordination, communication, support, and leadership to cross‑functional teams to ensure quality, cost, and schedule objectives are met. This requires working closely with manufacturing engineering, production planning and control, design engineering, test engineering, procurement, configuration management, quality, and production teams.

You will also be responsible for communicating with program management, customers, and all levels of management, authoring Program Directives, presenting performance in Program and Customer Reviews, and coordinating closely with Production Operations leadership and Program Management.

• Proposals lead for Operations; coordinates timely responses for recurring and non‑recurring efforts, including Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and spend plans, and conducts reviews with manufacturing leadership prior to submittal
• Lead Make/Buy efforts
• Development, coordination, and oversight of prod‑ops planning/execution of various types of programs, including Development, Production, IRAD, NRE, RTG plans, etc.
• Facilities and capital planning to support program production needs
• Lead Production Readiness Review (PRR) activities
• Develop and drive Affordability and Producibility targets, Production Excellence Plans
• Ensure production manpower and required resources are in place to execute per the Internal Operation Plan
• Create and track manufacturing plans and schedules
• Cost Account Management (CAM), including EAC/Spend Plan development, as required
• Develop or support the Archbald Red Flag process, as required

You are a talented, customer‑centric leader passionate about production operations and manufacturing. If you seek challenges, growth opportunities, and a commitment to excellence, this role offers flexible scheduling options to support work‑life balance.

This position is in Archbald, Pennsylvania.

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN – The selected candidate must be able to obtain a Secret clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience/combined education with 3+ years of professional experience; OR a related master’s degree with 2+ years of professional experience; OR direct proven NNPP, IPT and Program Performance experience
• Demonstrated full‑spectrum leadership skills
• Experience with in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of budgeting, manpower planning, production planning, tooling, and MRP
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate at all organizational levels
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship
• Ability to become CAM certified

• Previous experience leading in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to collect and verify data from multiple systems (including SAP, Apriso, etc.)
• Experience with Tableau and/or other data reporting tools
• Direct experience with PMTs and the PMT process
• Green Belt certification
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and motivating in a team environment
• Knowledge of metal fabrication, electro‑mechanical assembly, and/or circuit card manufacturing
• Experience with MRP/ERP manufacturing planning tools

Secret

4×10 hour day, 3 days off per week (Full‑time, first shift)

Full‑time, first shift

Missiles and Fire Control

Experienced Professional

Possible

Manufacturing

Lockheed Martin is an equal‑opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.