Description: The coolest jobs on this planet... or any other... are with Lockheed Martin Space.

At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing people are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills, talents and experiences to design and build solutions to some of the world's hardest engineering problems. Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus—if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you. At Lockheed Martin, we develop and build systems that really move. Some in space, while others move through the atmosphere, over land or over water. Our customers need and expect high performance from these systems and mass properties affects that performance.

Our Mass Properties Engineers help ensure our spacecraft get payloads to the right orbit around our planet or around other objects in our solar system, help our missile systems intercept a threat and protect our troops, help deliver a payload with pinpoint accuracy, or help us develop smaller, lightweight directed energy weapons, so they can be deployed on a variety of platforms.

Basic Qualifications:

- US Citizenship with the ability to acquire and maintain a Secret security clearance.

- Experience within the mass properties field and as a part of a larger multi-disciplinary technical team.

- Experience with Creo.

- Technical expertise in sophisticated mass properties analysis, including identification and qualification of error sources in accuracy and uncertainty analysis, and performing coordinate transformations.

- Measurement experience and willingness to travel (Courtland and Troy production site support as needed).

- Experience with development and implementation of effective, low-cost methods of mass properties management and control.

- Self-starter, inquisitive, able to multitask and work independently.

- Strong written skills; preparing monthly or quarterly weight status reports and verbal communication; presenting mass properties summaries to management and customers.

Desired Skills:

- Active Secret security clearance.

- Demonstrated experience with mass properties on large programs, performing intricate estimations for preliminary design concepts and solving mass properties issues.

- Experience with configuration assessment and prediction of mass properties based on preliminary design models as well as the evolving released design.

- Creo design and analysis skills and data gathering using LM Scripts.

- MATLAB programming experience.

- Missile or space segment design and test experience with one or more subsystems or analysis areas outside of Mass Properties Engineering.

- Familiarity with manufacturing and assembly techniques and processes, developing test procedures and performing data reduction.

- Demonstrated experience and innovation in developing systems for high accuracy mass, center of gravity, and inertial measurements.

- Uncertainty analysis experience and familiarization with statistics.

- Ability to identify and resolve technical concerns with respect to weight reduction application and author Mass Properties procedures, practices, and/or specifications.

- Experience with Procedure writing.

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: 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.

Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Work Schedules: 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.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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.

At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs , and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Mechanical Engineering

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First