Manufacturing Engineer Associate Manager

Job Overview

Lockheed Martin Space is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer in Denver, Colorado. This role leads a manufacturing engineering team across multiple factories (electronics, RF, machining, coatings, mechanisms, composites, structures) to enhance producibility, reduce cost and build time, and ensure consistency across all LM Space hardware products.

• Lead the manufacturing engineering team in Denver across multiple factories to drive producibility in designs.
• Work with Hardware Engineering teams to establish consistency and identicality across all LM Space hardware products.
• Deliver production and DFX entry/exit criteria and objective evidence for Program SDR, PDR, and CDR events.
• Identify opportunities with existing builds to improve quality and schedule through flow changes or new tooling.
• Collaborate with all space production areas to share lessons learned and improve producibility across Operations.
• Recommend capital expenditures based on new technologies within the industry.
• Support proposal efforts: ensure estimates align with current capabilities, propose design changes, and evaluate build‑to‑print items for possible improvements and risk profiles.
• Coordinate employee recruitment, selection, teaming, and training; conduct performance assessments, set work assignments, salary decisions, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
• Provide leadership, direction, guidance, assistance and mentorship to assigned employees.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• Demonstrated ability to drive design changes resulting in reduced manufacturing, assembly, and/or integration cycle times.
• Experience with product manufacturability, producibility, and design-to-cost.
• Experience presenting at Program Design Reviews (SDR, PDR, CDR, etc.).
• Fluent in SAP, MES, EPDM, Creo, or other CAD suites.
• At least 5 years of direct experience as a manufacturing engineer, systems engineer, or test engineer in a production environment.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance; pass a drug and background check.

• Master’s degree in a technical discipline.
• Manufacturing engineering experience in mechanical flight hardware production.
• Experience in diverse hardware types and factories including electronics, RF, machining, coatings, mechanisms, composites, and structures.
• Experience in program development with emphasis on cross‑functional collaboration and project leadership.
• Ability to present technical concepts to cross‑functional teams and executive management.
• Experience with Design Profit, Siemens Valor NPI, DFMPro, DFMA, or other producibility software and plugins.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Strong team building and leadership influence skills across functional organizations and customers.

Annual base salary range: $99,700 – $175,835 (location based). Competitive pay, incentive plan eligibility, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, holidays, and more.

This position requires U.S. citizenship and a TS/SCI clearance, which must be obtained and maintained.

Denver, Colorado (on‑site).

Work schedule:

9 × 80 hours with every second Friday off. No teleworking.

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