Stingray Flight Test IPT Lead

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree in Engineering from an accredited college.
• Experience as a CAM and/or with Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
• Must have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, with the ability to brief Program leadership and customers.
• Experience in Project Management or as a Project lead, leading program execution.
• Self‑motivated and able to work with minimal management oversight.
• Flight Test experience, including planning a flight test program.
• Experience with aircraft test operations at the Marietta site.
• Knowledge and experience with historical C‑130J flight tests.
• A current Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

We are Lockheed Martin. Our products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company’s unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry. Our workforce of more than 25,000 has pre‑eminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology and systems integration.

This position is the Flight Test Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for the Stingray program. The Stingray Flight Test IPT Lead will report to the Test & Evaluation (T&E) Senior Manager in Marietta, GA. The selected candidate will be the primary point of contact for T&E with Stingray program management, the customer and the end user. Primary tasks include working with the customer and the end user in defining the scope of the test program and instrumentation requirements, ensuring adherence to the program schedule, and ensuring overall T&E program execution.

The IPT Lead is also responsible for Control Account Management (CAM) activities, which includes conducting Earned Value (EV) and variance analysis, developing monthly Estimates to Complete (ETC), monitoring EV health metrics, and ensuring cost and schedule performance throughout the lifecycle of T&E contractual tasks.

The IPT Lead is expected to take a proactive approach to identify and resolve performance issues, and ensure the on‑time completion of T&E milestones and contractual deliveries. This individual must have knowledge of the operations at the Marietta site, particularly with T&E activities, and a general knowledge of past C‑130J testing that has been accomplished. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, for effective interaction with internal organizations, external companies, and U.S. government customers, are essential.

The candidate must be extremely organized, reliable, and able to successfully multi‑task and perform within the high‑octane, dynamic flight‑test environment.

Some travel will be required to support working groups with the customer and end user. This position requires a Top Secret clearance. Must be a U.S. citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

• CAM certification with experience at DFAR level.
• Experience/familiarization with C‑130J aircraft.
• Must have a personality and demeanor to handle the highly dynamic environment of flight test, including the always‑changing dates and priorities.
• Current Top Secret clearance.

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Onsite Full‑time:
The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.