Production Industrial Engineer (Mid-Career)

Basic Qualifications

Proven experience launching and scaling new production lines or factories
Experience with Discrete Event Simulation (DES) of production processes
Experience conducting process time studies and workflow analysis
Experience with production planning, scheduling, capacity analysis, or production rate optimization
Experience developing/analyzing metrics and analyzing cost, schedule, and performance data
US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Job Description

Role Overview
As a Production Industrial Engineer, you will drive improvements across manufacturing operations by analyzing data, optimizing processes, and leading initiatives that enhance production efficiency, throughput, and cost performance.
You will work at the intersection of production, data, and engineering, partnering across functions to ensure manufacturing systems are designed and operating at peak performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze production data to identify inefficiencies, root causes, and improvement opportunities
• Lead and implement continuous improvement initiatives using Lean principles and Industrial Engineering methods
• Develop and apply discrete event simulation or similar modeling techniques to evaluate production scenarios and optimize system performance
• Support production planning activities including capacity analysis, scheduling, and production rate optimization
• Partner with Manufacturing and Facilities Engineering to support production line design, layout, and workflow optimization
• Establish and monitor performance metrics related to cost, schedule, and throughput
• Collaborate cross-functionally across production, engineering, supply chain, and program teams
• Drive sustainable process improvements and ensure long-term adoption of solutions
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers as needed
• Provide occasional off-shift support to maintain production continuity

About Lockheed Martin Space

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.

Desired Skills

• Value Stream analysis experience identifying waste and bottlenecks in a production environment
• Experience applying continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Value Stream Mapping, process mapping, line balancing)
• Proven ability to conduct ergonomic risk assessments to recommend and implement engineering controls and tool design improvements to minimize personnel risks
• Experience developing Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) baselines for critical equipment in a production flow
• Experience applying SMED Concepts to CNC and CMM Changeovers
• Experience executing ramp plans to increase production rates while maintaining quality and efficiency
• Experience working with production analytics and simulation tools (e.g., SAP, Apriso, VECAMS, Tableau, Simio)
• Active Secret security clearance is highly preferred

Other Important Information

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.