Hardware Engineering Mgr - L5

Standard Job Description

You will be the Engineering & Technology (E&T) Manager for Design Services (Checking) within Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Hardware Design & Analysis (HDA). You will lead a team of approximately ten Design Checkers and Liaison (Workflow Coordinator) Engineers — predominantly mechanical-engineering professionals — who safeguard drawing and model integrity and move engineering change packages to release across MFC programs.

Our team is the technical conscience of the release process: we protect product quality while accelerating how fast good designs reach the factory floor.

You will be the Engineering & Technology (E&T) Manager for Design Services (Checking) within Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Hardware Design & Analysis (HDA). You will lead a team of approximately ten Design Checkers and Liaison (Workflow Coordinator) Engineers — predominantly mechanical-engineering professionals — who safeguard drawing and model integrity and move engineering change packages to release across MFC programs.

Our team is the technical conscience of the release process: we protect product quality while accelerating how fast good designs reach the factory floor.

This is a pivotal leadership role at a pivotal time. MFC is migrating to a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), shifting authority from the 2D drawing to the annotated 3D model, and modernizing the engineering change release process. You will champion that transformation for the checking and liaison discipline — upskilling your team, enabling a faster and more consistent release process, and helping define what world-class checking looks like in a model-based world.

• People leadership — lead, coach, mentor, and advocate for a high-performing team of Design Checkers and Liaison Engineers; own recruitment, onboarding, performance assessment, salary planning, workload balancing, and recognition/development.
• Resource & program coverage — ensure every MFC program has the right number of qualified checkers and liaison engineers, balancing staffing across multiple concurrent programs and priorities.
• Talent development — define and grow competency, certification, and career-development pathways for checking and liaison roles; build the bench strength MFC needs as senior talent retires.
• Model-Based Enterprise migration — champion the organizational strategy and migration to Model-Based Enterprise (MBD/MBE); lead the upskilling of your team on model-based definition, semantic PMI/GD&T, and model-based checking so the model becomes the authoritative source of truth.
• Release acceleration — drive checking, peer-review, and workflow-coordination consistency that shortens the engineering change release cycle (CR→CN); promote right-sized approvers, concurrent review, need-date prioritization, first-pass quality, and reduced rework.
• Design integrity — own drawing/model integrity as a discipline — checking standards, a shared “definition of ready,” defect classification, and first-pass-yield — grounded in ASME Y14.5 GD&T, ASME Y14.100, and program requirements.
• Release execution — oversee drawing/model releases; support Change Screening and Configuration Control Boards (CSB/CCB) and design reviews; disposition Change Requests, coordinate Change Notices, and resolve technical issues with internal and external stakeholders and IPTs.
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  LMX & digital thread — identify and implement solutions that bring each MFC site in line with 1
  
  LMX and enterprise digital-thread objectives; leverage Windchill/dPLM data, dashboards, and predictive analytics to manage performance.
• Technical conscience — serve as the technical conscience and advocate for checking in internal and external discussions; drive…