**Description:** **We are** _Lockheed Martin\._ Our products play an important role in the national security of the United States and more than 70 other countries, ensuring peace and stability around the world\. Highly trained and specialized personnel and facilities are key to the company's unrivaled success in the aeronautics industry\. Our workforce of more than 120,000 has preeminent expertise in advanced aircraft design and production, modification and support, stealth technology, and systems integration\. As aFlight Test Deputy Project Lead, you will assist the Flight Test Project Lead in leading a team of Flight Test professionals\. With a strong background in developmental flight testing, overseeing a team of engineers, maintainers and logistics, and leading various processes and protocols, you will ensure the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance in all aspects of flight test operations\. The role demands the ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously\. Responsibilities include: + **Team Leadership:** Lead, motivate, and manage a multidisciplinary test team of approximately 30 professionals, ensuring collaboration, timely project completion, and high standards of work\. + **Process & Procedure Development:** Ensure the engineering, maintenance and logistics teams develops, implements, and adheres to robust processes and procedures for all flight test operations\. + **Configuration Control:** Oversee and maintain rigorous configuration control practices, ensuring that all weapon system modifications, systems, and components align with company standards\. + **Training:** Ensure the test team is adequately trained and stays up to date and complies with company standards\. + **Risk Management:** Understand, analyze, and mitigate potential risks in flight test operations, always ensuring safety and compliance\. Some shift, extended hours, weekend work and travel may be required\. \*\* Must be a US Citizen\. This position is located at a facility that requires special access\. No dual citizenship will be considered\. \*\* **What’s In It For You** Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually\. A level 5 employee **Typically has 14 \- 20 years** of professional experience\. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy: Medical, Dental, 401\(K\), paid time off, work/life balance, career development, mentorship opportunities, and rewards & recognition\. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here\. REF: Engineering, Aeronautics, aeroTE, aeroFTDPE **Basic Qualifications:** The following basic qualifications are required for this position: + Top Secret Clearance + Bachelor’s degree + Flight Test experience + Successful history in being a team technical lead **Desired Skills:** The following desired skills will differentiate potential candidates: + TS/SCI + Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an engineering, science, or technology discipline + Master’s degree + Experience leading a flight test team discipline such as DP, FTCEs, FTEs, GSE, instro, etc\. + History of positive interactions with fellow employees, teammates, and customers in challenging circumstances + Experience with engineering documentation, configuration control and change boards, creating and maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule, CAM or EVMS background **Security Clearance Statement:** This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration\. **Clearance Level:** Top Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years **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:** Onsite Full\-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility\. **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:** 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week **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\.** 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\. **Experience Level:** Experienced Professional **Business Unit:** AERONAUTICS COMPANY **Relocation Available:** Possible **Career Area:** Aeronautical Engineering **Type:** Full\-Time **Shift:** First