Chief Engineer Mgr - L5

Requisition  Eligible?:
Yes

ERP amount: $50 LMRecognition

Relocation:
Possible Type:
Leader

Shift: 1

Clearance Prior to Start:
Interim Secret Final Clearance:
Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years

Pay Transparency: $ - $Experience Level: Experienced Professional FT/PT/Casual:
Full Time Department : MFC-Primary Business Unit: MFC-Primary Standard

Job Description The RF Product Center is seeking an experienced Chief Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution of future Sensor products that will shape the next generation of the Missiles and Fire Control & Rotary and Mission Systems business areas. This position operates to innovate and develop emerging technologies, products, and investments to define future scalable technical solutions that can be transitioned across programs and into production.

Working as the technical counterpart to the Senior Program Manager, the Chief Engineer will partner closely with RF Product Center leaders to identify, mature, and transition advanced capabilities from concept through operational deployment. This role will help define the technical and capability roadmaps for future Sensor product development while ensuring new capabilities are architected for manufacturability, affordability, reuse, scalability, and sustainment.

Success requires balancing technical depth with strategic thinking, working across Lockheed Martin Business Areas, Engineering disciplines, Product Management, Operations, Advanced Programs, Business Development, and program teams to align technology investments with future business needs.

Key Responsibilities Serve as the technical lead for Lockheed Martin Sensor product’s future capabilities and strategic initiatives that are not yet aligned to an existing program of record.

Develop and maintain the Sensor product technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business strategy, and technology investments.

Partner with the Program Manager to mature emerging capabilities from concept through program adoption and production transition.

Partner with Architects to define scalable architectures that maximize reuse across programs while balancing cost, schedule, technical performance, and manufacturability.

Provide technical leadership across Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Business Development, Advanced Programs, and functional organizations.

Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend investment priorities that strengthen long-term competitiveness.

Support CRAD, IRAD, proposal, and capture activities by developing technical strategies, solution concepts, and execution approaches.

Lead engineering cost, schedule, and technical development execution and integration activities across multiple organizations and Business Areas.

Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies that enable successful transition into programs and production.

Champion systems engineering rigor while enabling rapid innovation and technology maturation.

Foster collaboration across engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries to ensure technically integrated solutions.

Work closely with business development, product management, sensor architects to help support the development of product, capability, and technology roadmaps in order to define investment strategy for future Sensor development.

Guide IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews along with DVT, CQT, and SQT level testing.

Ensure engineering teams are staffed appropriately for all activities.

Support internal and external customer meetings, IPT status, Technical Interchange Meetings, Technical Readiness Reviews, metrics generation, PDRs, CDRs,…