Calling new college graduates! Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to start your career working on the most advanced aircraft platforms in the world? Do you enjoy a flexible work schedule, fast-paced manufacturing environment and an opportunity to grow and enhance your career? If so, then look no further than this incredible opportunity within Lockheed Martin Aeronautics on the Quality and Mission Success team!

This is an entry level Quality Engineer Associate position on the F-35 program responsible for work product quality and continual assessment of manufacturing product and process yield for the Final Assembly build area. Will utilize statistical methods and preventive action methods to evaluate and initiate actions to identify and control sources of variation detrimental to quality, cost, and schedule targets. Conduct/coordinate process and product evaluations and assessments. Emphasis will be placed on validation of key process capability. Scope of responsibility also includes; quality and cost data analysis, lead root cause, corrective and preventive action investigations/ decisions/ validations, variation management actions, supplier quality integration tasks, along with area improvement strategy and planning. Responsible and accountable for delivering effective methods and initiating improvements that will drive and improve overall quality performance reducing area defects and Scrap, Rework, Repair cost to minimum as measured and trended by quality diagnostic measurement system. Will collaborate with various functions to assure compliance and continuous improvement.

Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering field of study or related technical discipline from an accredited college.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Root cause analysis experience
• Experience using data analytics to communicate and influence others in a concise, data driven manner.
• High energy, self-starting, team player who achieves goals.
• Excellent interpersonal skills needed for collaboration, communication, and presentations.
• Lean/Six Sigma Training or Green Belt Certification
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

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.

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.

Lockheed Martin is a leading global aerospace and technology company that works with partners around the world to drive forward scientific research and innovation.