Job ID: 689777BR Date posted: Apr. 08, 2025
Description:Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

Come join our team as our next Orion Stress Analyst!

Your duties will include the providing on-site Stress Analysis support to the OPOC production team at Kennedy Space Center. Tasks will include providing timely stress analyses to guide the disposition of flight hardware and coordinating with the Engineering team to develop problem resolutions. Other duties may include:

• Perform stress and fracture analyses in support of Engineering release

• Coordinate with Loads & Dynamics on component and structures environments

• Support structural testing

• Coordinate with Systems Engineering on verification tasks

• Primary point of contact for stress team in the production area of the Kennedy Space Center

• Provide guidance and oversight to other stress analysts supporting Orion manufacturing and assembly at KSC

• Generate performance metrics and status reports for Program Management
Basic Qualifications:
• Experienced with spacecraft or aircraft structural analysis methods, including classical hand calculations and experience with mechanical joints

• Knowledge of structural characteristics and the ability to generate free body diagrams detailing load paths through complex systems

• Ability to apply new and advanced analytical techniques necessary to perform structural analysis

• Structural analysis capability with FEMAP and/or NX/NASTRAN finite element modeling or equivalent
Desired Skills:
• A Master's degree is strongly preferred for this position
• Hardware experience, including design, analysis, assembly, Integration and Test
• Knowledge of human rated structural verification requirements
• Experience with NASA’s Fracture Control system
• Experience performing crack growth analysis with NASGRO
• Experience performing fatigue analysis
• Experience analyzing composite material systems
• Experience with TMP Slim/Vision
• Knowledgeable of, and possesses experience with, NASA’s Artemis Program
• Experience using EPDM Windchill
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments and customers, simultaneously and independently
• Excellent verbal/written communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
Clearance Level: None
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: 9x80 every other Friday off
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.
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