Enterprise Process Optimization Engineer

What is the mission?

Lockheed Space succeeds when every program hits its schedule, cost and critical path targets. To stay competitive and meet the urgent and evolving demands of our customers, we must tighten operational efficiency, adopt the most effective tools and processes and operate at speed. As a member of the Enterprise Process Optimization team, you will work shoulder-to-shoulder with cross-functional engineers, business partners and customers, applying innovative thinking to streamline work, eliminate waste and deliver mission-critical solutions on-time and on-budget. By doing so you will help sustain our momentum, grow our bottom line and create many more reasons for the organization, and you, to celebrate.

What does this role look like?

Enterprise Process Optimization (EPO) partners with the lines of business and multi-functional organizations to improve cost, schedule, quality and risk across the entire product lifecycle. Process Optimization Engineer is responsible for analyzing, optimizing and improving processes across the organization. This role requires a deep understanding of LMs business, operations & technical processes, including impacts of customer requirements.

The ideal candidate has technical experience on project teams, project management & systems engineering fundamentals, a strong analytical mindset & excellent communication skills. Project engineer will act as an independent entity & collaborate with cross functional teams to drive measurable process improvements as a dedicated change agent. While primary focus area will be assigned during the first 6-12months, the position is purpose built for flexibility; candidates must be comfortable rotating to other domains as business priorities shift & work closely with the other EPO team members.

In this role you will have the following daily key responsibilities:

1. Define scope & baseline: Establish the breadth of factors that impact rapid delivery, catalog existing initiatives, evaluate historical program metrics and create a minimum viable or zero-base execution model that serves as the foundation for improvement work

2. Assess tools & barriers: Examine current toolsets and process approaches, pinpoint performance bottlenecks and outline opportunities for standardization as well as tailored solutions where needed. Partner with Enterprise stakeholders for 1LMX/MBE toolset adoption and drive right-sized solutions

3. Stakeholder alignment: Identify and engage key stakeholders across the Enterprise to gather requirements, secure buy in & maintain a common view of objectives

4. Evaluate existing Command Media: Review internal processes, policies, standards and handbooks to uncover opportunities to reduce scope, increase speed, tailor guidelines and adopt alternate compliance strategies

5. Customer requirements evaluation: Analyze customer technical, SOW and regulatory requirements; identify the strongest contributors to extra work or scope creep; and recommend realistic, risk based trade offs or push backs with the customer & internal program teams

6. Develop and maintain metrics: in partnership with the Enterprise Performance organization, establish schedule performance measures that reflect process health, work jointly to design, build, and publish the associated dashboards and source of truth repositories, and continuously validate and refine the metrics to keep pace with evolving business needs.

7. Prioritize opportunities: Highlight highimpact big rocks and lowhangingfruit quick wins; perform costtrade analyses to justify selected initiatives.

8. Plan, advocate, execute: Create detailed implementation plans, build advocacy and leadership support, engage support to prototype and implement proposed changes, drive socialization and formal approval, and execute changes.

To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college, or equivalent experience/combined education

10+years of experience in a technical project role using process tools, contributing to product development, systems engineering, or project management supporting complex and cross-functional aerospace/defense programs.

You will need to be a US Citizen, and be able to obtain and maintain a US TOP SECRET clearance , to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Please note:

No clearance is required to apply, nor prior to start.

To be effective, ideally, you should also have:

We value breadth of experience; candidates who excel in several of the areas below will help us create a wellrounded EPO team, even if they dont possess every skill.

Bachelors degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or other engineering field.

Masters degree in engineering or business.

Project management foundations: demonstrated ability to develop detailed implementation plans, schedules, and riskmitigation strategies.

Systems engineering fundamentals: experience with requirements management, technical baseline management, design and analysis cycles, test and verification, and lifecyclephase transitions (preCDR to postCDR).

Customer requirements experience: direct exposure to analyzing customer SOWs, technical specifications, and regulatory constraints; skill at identifying scopecreep drivers and negotiating realistic tradeoffs.

Change leadership capability: skilled at communicating vision, addressing resistance, and rallying cross-functional teams.

Command Media implementation: experience applying command media or customer/industry standards to projects, including requirements and compliance strategies.

Metrics & dashboard development: experience developing useful cost, schedule and risk metrics; comfortable presenting results to executive leadership.

Influence & collaboration: demonstrated success building consensus across lines of business and technical disciplines.

Technical acumen: familiarity with business tools (e.g., MS Project, Open Plan, SAP, Atlassian suite, Tableau), CAD tools (Creo, SolidWorks), systems engineering platforms (DOORS, Cameo, IBMRhapsody), or modeling and simulation environments.

Continuousimprovement mindset: exposure to Agile Lean, SixSigma, or other datadriven improvement methodologies (formal certification not required) with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses.

AI/ML adoption experience: evaluating, piloting, and scaling AIdriven solutions to accelerate processimprovement initiatives.

Technologyadoption mindset: building business cases for emerging tools while managing risk and compliance.

Ability to balance self-directed work with effective collaboration within the EPO team and with external stakeholders.

Strong analytical mindset with the ability to collect, model, and interpret data to drive decisions.

Familiarity with LockheedMartins enterprise tools and processes.

Proven ability to influence and lead teams without authority, influence senior leaders, and build relationships across organizational and stakeholder lines.

Proactive root cause focus: demonstrated initiative to investigate and resolve the underlying causes of process slowness or inefficiency.

Demonstrated exceptional strategic communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation, to effectively communicate business cases to all levels of peers, suppliers, and stakeholders, as well as program executives, with an ability to persuade and motivate action.