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Mass Properties Engineer - Mechanical Engineer

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

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Job ID: 690410BR Date posted: Apr. 15, 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.

For over 60 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy’s mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure. The FBM Program is experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.

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

Join the outstanding and specialized field of Mass Properties Engineering and help ensure our spacecraft get payloads to the right orbit around our planet or around other objects in our solar system, help our missile systems intercept a threat and protect our troops, help deliver a payload with pinpoint accuracy, or help us develop smaller, lightweight directed energy weapons so they can be deployed on a variety of platforms.

As a Mass Properties Engineer, you will:

• Provide Mass Properties Engineering support to multiple missile, reentry systems, or special programs

• Calculate mass properties and update and maintain mass properties database

• Perform basic trade studies and make presentations at program design reviews

• Support development of test procedures and perform mass properties measurements, then reduce and interpret measurement data into final user values

• Support Mass Properties Control Boards and weight reduction teams

• Document and publish all types of analysis reports and support the mass properties effort on small or large programs
Basic Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience in calculating the mass properties (mass, 3 axis centers of gravity, moments and products of inertia) of components and performing summation calculations into assemblies

• Ability to use and understand the concepts behind simple software tools to perform these calculations

• Demonstrated ability to perform simple weight and center of gravity measurement using multiple platform scales or load cells

• Experience interpreting detailed mechanism designs taken from manufacturing drawings or standard modeling software tools

• Data reduction and simple error analysis

US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance
Desired Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace), Physics, or Mathematics

• Perform simple mass properties estimation of preliminary design concepts

• Experience performing more complex mass properties measurements using rotary-type spin balance machine. Demonstrated ability to interpret results and dynamically balance the test object within requirements

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point, solid modeling applications (IDEAS, Pro-E, or CREO), Mathcad and/or MATLAB, and other software tools

• Experience as a key contributor for weight control and reduction efforts

• Ability to support technical concerns with respect to weight reduction application

• Ability to write Mass Properties procedures, practices and/or specifications

• Experience working on integrated product team, interacting with other engineering fields, technicians, subcontractors, and customer

• Familiarity with manufacturing and assembly techniques & processes, developing test procedures, and performing data reduction

• Missile or space segment design and test experience with one or more subsystems or fields outside of Systems Engineering

• Demonstrated basic understanding of systems thinking skills and behaviors

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, strong social skills, and ability to build solid relationships with team members

• Active Top Secret clearance
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top 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: 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.
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
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