Sustainment Engineer Sr.

Job Description

You will be the Senior Sustainment Engineer supporting the development, qualification, and lifecycle sustainment of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment. Our team is responsible for ensuring mission-critical hardware can be safely transported, stored, operated, maintained, and supported throughout the product lifecycle.

What You Will Be Doing
As the Senior Sustainment Engineer, you will manage the development and qualification of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment. You'll work closely with engineering teams, suppliers, program stakeholders, and customers to ensure support equipment solutions meet technical, operational, environmental, maintainability, and contractual requirements.

Your responsibilities will include:

Managing the development and qualification of specialized shipping and storage containers and support equipment.
Developing, revising, and executing detailed requirements documents, requirement verification plans, supplier statements of work, and test plans.
Coordinating, participating in, or leading support equipment compatibility events to ensure equipment properly interfaces with supported hardware and operational needs.
Supporting suitability and maintainability demonstrations to validate that support equipment solutions are practical, effective, and maintainable in field and depot environments.
Planning and supporting fit checks, environmental test events, technical procedure reviews, and validation activities.
Working cross-functionally with engineering, logistics, suppliers, field support, and program teams to resolve technical issues and ensure support equipment readiness.
Reviewing technical data, drawings, specifications, procedures, and supplier documentation to confirm compliance with program requirements.
Providing status updates, risk assessments, and technical recommendations to program leadership and key stakeholders.
Supporting continuous improvement efforts focused on transportation efficiency, equipment reliability, maintainability, lifecycle affordability, and long-term sustainment performance.

Basic Qualifications

Active U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
Technical engineering degree in an appropriate field, or equivalent professional or military experience.
3-5 years of relevant experience in field service, depot operations, sustainment, or a similar technical support role.
Experience supporting military aircraft, missile systems, or related defense systems.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desired skills

Experience interpreting technical manuals, engineering drawings, schematics, interface control drawings, and performance specifications.
HAZMAT certification or experience handling hazardous materials in a technical, depot, or field support environment.

EEO

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

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Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Other Important Information

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.

Work Schedule Information

Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

National Pay Statement

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $77,700 - $136,965. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.

Premium Pay Statement

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $89,300 - $154,905. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.