Reliability Engineer

Requisition ID: 13935

ERP Eligible?: No

ERP amount: N/A

Relocation: No

Type: Exempt

Shift: 1

Clearance Prior to Start: None

Final Clearance: Secret

Pay Transparency: $70,500.00 - $130,900.00

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

FT/PT/Casual: FullTime

Department: Space

Business Unit: Space

Job 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.
The Engineering & Technology organization is a highly dynamic and growing organization that plays a vital role in providing mission-critical solutions to our customers. Come be a part of the development of the new Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW). Join the Lockheed Martin team and be a part of the company that has developed and flown more hypersonic vehicles than any other U.S. Company and has decades of hypersonic development and flight test experience from government contracts as well as internal investments in research and development projects. This position is for a Reliability Engineer to support the LRHW System Engineering, Integration & Test organization.

Learn more about our Hypersonic Solutions and the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program
This position develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (doe) constructs. Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability. Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes. Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards. Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives. May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches or processes posing excessive failure risks. As necessary, proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.

Responsibilities

• Lead Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analyses (FMECA) and produce reliability block diagrams and quantitative predictions.
• Create, execute, and track reliability growth plans; perform growth analysis to ensure program contracts are satisfied.
• Support design reviews, test events, and configuration control processes (ECP, CSB, CCB).
• Participate in Corrective Action Boards (CAB) and Failure Review Boards (FRB) to drive root cause resolution.
• Analyze FRACAS trends, prioritize failure modes, and recommend corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Compile performance reports, process control statistics, and detailed reliability documentation for stakeholders.
• Collaborate daily with engineers, program managers, and customers, delivering clear analytical input and written reports.
• Conduct RAMT activities such as FMECA, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), and BIT demonstrations.
• Participate in detailed design sessions, technical interchange meetings, and program reviews, providing RAMT expertise.
• Review specifications, drawings, and Engineering Change Proposals.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or STEM related field or relevant and equivalent work experience.
• Experience with performing reliability predictions and analyses.
• Experience with reliability FRACAS and statistical data mining.
• Experience with the FMECA process.
• U.S. Military Customer interface experience.
• Must have or be able to obtain a Secret clearance – U.S. Citizenship is required.

Desired Skills

• Experience as a project or team lead, building consensus among peers and effective relationships with team members.
• Ability to manage subcontractors in the Reliability field of expertise.
• Previous experience leading Reliability projects or teams.
• Strong electrical and mechanical systems background.
• Significant Reliability Engineering experience in the following:
  • Creation of Program Plans for Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Testability (RAMT)
  • Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability Predictions and Analysis
  • Failure Mod