Job ID: 690185BR Date posted: Apr. 02, 2025
Description:We are Lockheed Martin

At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, we are driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and teamwork. We are seeking a Multi-Functional Manufacturing Supervisor (Level 3) to provide strategic leadership across three shifts in a high-paced manufacturing environment in Palmdale, CA. This role requires an experienced leader who can optimize production operations, foster a culture of accountability, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring safety, quality, and cost efficiency.

This position operates on a 3/12 shift- Friday- Sunday
Typically 5:30am -6:30pm

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
As a Multi-Functional Manufacturing Manager, you will:
• Provide overall leadership and direction to a represented workforce managed by a cross-functional salary team across three shifts.
• Ensure seamless operations by identifying and resolving production constraints and implementing strategies to mitigate bottlenecks.
• Oversee workforce planning, scheduling, and execution to meet production objectives.
• Drive process improvements that enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and improve product quality.
• Promote a culture of accountability, ensuring employees understand their roles and responsibilities while being held to performance expectations.
• Engage employees at all levels, providing coaching, feedback, and professional development to create a high-performing team.
• Ensure compliance with safety regulations, quality standards, and company policies.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, and supply chain teams to enhance operational effectiveness and resolve production challenges.
• Utilize lean manufacturing principles to drive operational excellence.


WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
• Leadership impact—manage a large team and play a critical role in F-35 production operations.
• Work in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment with opportunities to shape and optimize production processes.
• Be part of a world-class aerospace and defense company known for innovation and operational excellence.
• Professional growth—opportunities to expand leadership capabilities and advance within Lockheed Martin.
• Work on cutting-edge aerospace programs that support national security and global defense.

Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.


Who You Are
• A proven leader with experience managing large-scale manufacturing operations.
• An effective communicator who can engage and motivate a diverse workforce.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify constraints, drive process improvements, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
• A team builder who fosters a culture of accountability and professional growth.

This position is fulltime onsite in Palmdale, CA Discover Palmdale.
Basic Qualifications:
• Demonstrated professional experience interpreting blueprints, procedures, instruction manuals, specifications and engineering orders to clarify and resolve functional problems related to manufacturing process.

• Experience Microsoft Office applications such as Excel/Power point

• Previous Leadership experience

• Experience working in the Aerospace Industry

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance, per business requirements'
Desired Skills:
Understanding of composite materials, lay-up, curing, repairs and bonding.

Experience with managing in a Represented/Union workforce

Demonstrated professional experience interpreting blueprints, procedures, instruction manuals, specifications and engineering orders to clarify and resolve functional problems related to manufacturing process.

Strong written and interpersonal communication and presentation skills.

Ability to determine priorities of scheduled and drop in work.
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: 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.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington or Washington DC is $73,800 - $130,180. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California and New York is $84,900 - $147,085. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
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: Yes
Career Area: Management
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First