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Manufacturing Engineer Associate - Early Career

Lockheed Martin
Grand Prairie, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Apr 2026
💰 $109,365/yr($54,900/yr$109,365/yr)

About the role

Security Clearance

Secret

Shift

First

Direct/Indirect

Direct

Business Area

Missiles and Fire Control

Department

C3M7000193:ELEC PRODUCTION ENG

Relocation/Housing Stipend Available

Possible

Job Code/Title

E1621:Manufacturing Engineer Asc

Job Class

Management

Job Category

4 yr and up College

Req Type

Full-Time

Job Description

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we 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 career opportunities designed to propel development 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. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Associate for a position in Grand Prairie, TX to join the Missiles and Fire Control Manufacturing Engineering team supporting the Circuit Card Assembly Electrical Operations. The sustainment Manufacturing Engineer Asc is responsible for supporting sustainment and manufacturing processes for circuit card assemblies. Develops, creates, and maintains work instructions, task lists, and re-work/repair instructions from non conformance notifications. The role also involves identifying risks to production and implementing mitigation plans ,lead manufacturing process line validation activities, driving cost reduction initiatives to closure, support testing and hardware or tooling related issues that may arise, and any other program related manufacturing or tooling issues that may arise. This position will initiate and support process improvements for electrical area and interfaces with shop floor personnel, shop management, and program management to drive collaboration across the shops and the labs. In a culture of continuous improvement, our department utilizes lean initiatives to reduce waste and drive affordability and efficiency. Working with an integrated team which includes customers, suppliers and other functional personnel, non-conformances are identified, trended and resolved in a timely manner. As a vital member of the team, a Manufacturing Engineer at Missiles and Fire Control evaluates designs and provide manufacturing feedback to lead to affordable and manufacturable designs while still meeting performance requirements. The ability to question design requirements that drive cost to ensure there is good technical justification is desired.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an associated discipline in
STEM or equivalent.
• Ability to interpret drawings, Computer-Aided
Design (CAD) models, product/performance
specifications, and other systems integration
technical data
• Must be a US Citizen. This position will require a government security clearance. This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired skills

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve
technical/process issues varying from basic to
very complex
• Demonstrated effective communication skills
including verbal, listening, technical writing, and
presentations
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills,
including team building, collaboration, and developing enduring business relationships
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing
environment.
• Proficient in MS Office tools (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, etc.)

State

Texas

Zip

75051

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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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

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