Job ID: 667016BR Date posted: May. 30, 2024 Program: F-35
Description:This position requires an aviation sustainment subject matter expert, to serve as the Lightning Sustainment Center and Sustainment Lifecycle (SLCM) Manager for the F-35 Lightning Sustainment Center (LSC) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Responsibilities include:
• Manages a sustainment integration team responsible for broad integration activities across the F-35 sustainment enterprise.
• Oversees sustainment integration activities to ensure alignment and synchronization across the F-35 enterprise to effectively deliver world-class sustainment support to global F-35 customers.
• Performs integration across multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) including engineering, sustainment, and procurement. Integration elements include:
- Strategic Integration
- Aircraft Fleet Health
- Depot Component Repair Activation
- Support Equipment
- Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS)
- Maintenance, Upgrade & Overhaul (MUO)
- Reliability Analytics
- Site Activation

As the Sustainment Lifecycle Manager Integrator, this position also provides sustainment product support integration, coordination, and oversight to improve aircraft availability and reduce life-cycle support costs. The Sustainment Lifecycle Manager Integrator is directly involved in the planning, development, and execution of technical and sustainment improvement projects. Performs technical planning, system integration, verification & validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system products to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.

Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, supportability and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. Tasks include, but not limited to:
- Project management of complex technical and sustainment improvement initiatives
- Application of extensive maintenance expertise to plan, coordinate, and partner with industry teammates to resolve a variety of fleet technical issues
- As sustainment subject matter expert, supports long-term sustainment strategies across the F-35 enterprise
- Investigates and analyzes operational sustainment challenges to develop recommended solutions that detail impacts, risk, resource requirements, and potential efficiencies while ensuring solutions meet program safety and performance standards
- Briefs results and recommendations of various technical and sustainment projects to senior leadership and the customer

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, organizational, and technical skills. Must be highly collaborative to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment. The candidate must be able to effectively navigate inter/intra-organizational, and external customer relationships. The candidate must possess critical & analytical thinking skills, the ability to lead and work independently, business acumen, and the ability to produce superior work products under short deadlines.

• The candidate must possess an active Secret Security Clearance and must be a United States citizen.

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Basic Qualifications:
The following Basic Qualifications are skills that a candidate must possess to be considered for this position:

• 12 years of related professional experience in military aircraft sustainment, maintenance operations or production
• 5 years F-35 experience working in sustainment, logistics, engineering, maintenance or lifecycle support
• Project Management skills to coordinate complex, technical and sustainment improvement projects
• Strong communication skills with experience preparing for and briefing senior leaders on complex, technical and sustainment challenges impacting aircraft fleet readiness
• Experience leading, coaching and developing team-members
• Current US Secret Level Security Clearance
Desired Skills:
The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the other candidates:
• Bachelors degree from an accredited institution in a related discipline
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience with military service aircraft, logistics operations and customers to include Foreign Military Sales
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic, Operations Center or Headquarters type of environment
• Demonstrated ability to develop data driven solutions for complex sustainment challenges
• Knowledge of integrated product support elements and Performance Based Logistics concepts
• Proficient in defining and incorporating sustainment technical requirements in support of program execution, problem resolution, and Concept of Operation development
• Capability to integrate across multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) including engineering, sustainment, and procurement
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.
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Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Yes
Career Area: Systems Engineering: System of Systems Integration
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First