Chief Engineer Director, Undersea Mission Systems

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* Description:

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* ** WHO WE ARE*
* Lockheed Martin is revolutionizing the undersea domain with decades of proven expertise and a relentless drive for innovation  We're pushing the boundaries of what's possible, delivering game changing capability that transforms data into decisive battlefield advantage  Our advanced undersea systems provide unmatched superiority, enabling submariners to dominate the depths  With full spectrum sustainment, we ensure complex systems remain always ready, always operative, and always effective from initial deployment through future modernizations  As a trusted partner, Lockheed Martin guarantees undersea superiority, empowering our customers to outmaneuver, outthink, and outperform in the most challenging environments

** THE WORK*
* Reporting to the Vice President Chief Engineer for MIC2, the Chief Engineer Director for the $1 4B UMS portfolio that includes the execution of the UMS portfolio of programs   As the UMS Chief Engineer, the selected individual will be the Senior Engineering & Technology interface to the program office and the customer for all engineering matters across the portfolio  This role will partner with the MIC2 market segment Chief Engineers, Chief Engineer VP and Directors,  S&BD , CETO, PMO and eTech liaisons to ensure successful achievement of all program and E&T goals

This individual will provide the overall technical leadership and program performance for all programs and captures within the diverse portfolio   The Chief Engineer will ensure that technical integrity is maintained, right engineering rigor and discipline is applied, proposals are executable, and ensure engineering technical, cost, and schedule within area of responsibility are met or exceeded  Primary site responsibility is Manassas with interfaces across LOBs in Syracuse, West Palm Beach and Moorestown   The day to day responsibilities for this role are to lead a technical team of cross  functional engineers to ensure successful system/product development and technical delivery excellence across a diverse portfolio of projects domestic and international worth $1 4B in Sales in the areas of acoustic sensors and weapons, sonar integration, specialized undersea systems and submarine development and production

** WHO YOU ARE*
* You are a senior engineering leader who excels at guiding multidisciplinary teams, maintaining technical rigor, and delivering complex UMS solutions  You demonstrate Full Spectrum Leadership - ability to shape the future, energize the team, deliver results, build effective relationships and be accountable with high integrity and ethics

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* Basic Qualifications:

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* - Bachelor's Degree or higher in in Engineering discipline is required;
Advanced degree is preferred

- Minimum of 10  years of supervisory or leadership experience over a technical organization

- Successful experience managing a complex portfolio of programs and contracts in various lifecycle phases

- Proven ability to create and implement a vision and create teams while demonstrating LM Core Values and Full Spectrum Leadership imperatives

- Ability to work at all levels technically and programmatically, from detailed design to high level strategy development

- Technical lead experience across all phases of the product life cycle from proposal creation through product development, test, deployment, and support

- Ability to concisely explain complex subjects and issues to executive leadership

- Prior functional leadership of a large, diverse and distributed teams of employees

- Ability to develop a team solution and obtain management support for that solution

- Technical negotiation experience

- Systems Architecture and Integration experience

- Experience building strong customer relationships both internally and externally, translating customer needs into capability development

- Active Secret Clearance and ability to obtain Top Secret Clearance

** Desired

Skills:

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* Experience with acoustic sensors and weapons, sonar integration, specialized undersea systems and/or submarine development and production

- Experience with cloud services, agile systems development, data architecture, Generative and Agentic AI,…