Sustainment Engineer Sr.

Job Description

You will be the Senior Sustainment Engineer supporting life cycle cost estimating, affordability analysis, and sustainment strategy development. Our team is responsible for ensuring systems remain affordable, supportable, and operationally effective throughout their entire lifecycle by developing logistics solutions, evaluating sustainment costs, and identifying opportunities to improve long-term support outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing
As the Senior Sustainment Engineer, you will serve as the sustainment, life cycle cost, operations and support, and affordability engineer responsible for supporting the development and execution of sustainment and logistics support strategies. You'll play a critical role in evaluating the affordability and effectiveness of system support solutions from development through fielding, operations, maintenance, and long-term depot sustainment.

Your responsibilities will include:
Performing logistics analysis, including level of repair analysis, life cycle cost modeling, operations and support cost analysis, and affordability assessments.
Developing product support strategies that balance operational effectiveness, maintainability, supportability, and lifecycle affordability.
Executing trade studies, cost analysis, and sustainment evaluations to support program decisions and long-term support planning.
Supporting logistics management activities, including risk evaluation, issue tracking, reporting, and technical recommendations to program leadership and customers.
Collaborating with internal teams and customer stakeholders on logistics, maintenance, and maintainability demonstrations.
Establishing and managing subcontracts related to logistics, sustainment engineering scope, and product support deliverables.
Supporting test equipment and support equipment development to ensure systems can be properly operated, maintained, repaired, and sustained.
Supporting the creation and review of system maintenance procedures, technical documentation, and training products.
Working cross-functionally with engineering, logistics, suppliers, field support, depot operations, and program management teams to improve sustainment readiness and lifecycle performance.
Supporting continuous improvement efforts focused on reducing ownership cost, improving operational availability, and strengthening long-term mission readiness.

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 in military aviation and or weapons / air launched missile systems.
Demonstrated ability in interpreting technical manuals, engineering drawings, schematics, ICDs, performance specifications, and system level requirements.

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.