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The Denver Production Industrial Engineering organization is seeking an experienced leader to support a growing team responsible for improving manufacturing performance across production operations.
This role is a working leadership position that balances technical contribution with people leadership, mentoring, workload prioritization, and organizational development. The successful candidate will help strengthen the IE team’s technical capability, create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and develop engineers who can independently lead change across the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead, mentor, and develop Industrial Engineers supporting Denver production operations.
- Balance direct technical contribution with team leadership and day-to-day execution support.
- Drive a change-agent culture within the IE team and across production organizations.
- Help prioritize team workload based on business impact, operational risk, and production need.
- Coach engineers toward stronger problem ownership, technical judgment, and cross-functional influence.
- Partner across Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Quality, and Program teams to improve execution and resolve complex issues.
- Support adoption of improved processes, tools, automation, and standardized ways of working.
- Strengthen team operating mechanisms, knowledge transfer, succession depth, and accountability.
- Serve as a trusted technical and leadership resource to the Industrial Engineering Manager and production leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience working in a manufacturing, production, or operations environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading projects, teams, workstreams, or cross-functional improvement efforts.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, or develop others.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and drive issues to closure.
- Ability to balance technical work, team priorities, and leadership responsibilities in a dynamic environment.
- Previous formal or informal people-leadership experience.
- Experience developing technical talent or helping build, scale, or transform an engineering organization.
- Demonstrated change-management or continuous-improvement leadership.
- Experience supporting production ramp-up, manufacturing readiness, or complex production environments.
- Experience introducing or improving tools, automation, digital capabilities, or standardized processes.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build a team culture of accountability, constructive challenge, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118000.00 - $219100.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed 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(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (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.
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