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# Systems Integration/Test Engineering Associate Manager

- **Company:** Lockheed Martin
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $104,900.0 - $194,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** System Testing, Systems Integration
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28101256/Systems-Integration-Test-Engineering-Associate-Manager-Florida-All-Cities-1301

## About the Role

* Candidate must have a bachelor degree from an accredited college, or equivalent experience/combined education
 * Experience with the assembly and integration of complex aerospace systems or equivalent
 * Minimum 5 years experience leading a technical workforce
 * Experience supporting multi-functional teams including manufacturing and/or ATLO disciplines
 * Minimum 3 years experience working in an aerospace manufacturing environment
 * Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience briefing senior leaders and customers
 * Must be a United States citizen

Desired Skills

 * Experience with the Orion program and NASA customer
 * Demonstrated understanding and background in integrated master schedule planning activities

 * Experience interfacing with external Orion organizations
 * Knowledge of the principles of Industrial Engineering
 * Demonstrated proficiency establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and working collaboratively across multiple organizations
 * Experience with lean/six-sigma concepts, green belt certification preferred
 * Must thrive in an environment of rapid change with the ability to communicate and champion that change to the team

## 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.

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

Manages the integration and testing of in-house developed and COTS/GOTS components, elements, subsystems and/or systems. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Oversees the synthesis of customer contractual needs and requirements into system test solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints. Directs the following activities: establishing functional and technical specifications and standards, solving hardware/software interface problems, defining input/output parameters, and ensuring integration of the entire system or subsystem. Manages the development and directs preparation and execution of comprehensive test plans, procedures and schedules for complete systems and/or subsystems. Coordinates subsystem and/or system testing activities with programs and other organizations.

The Production Integrator (PI) & Industrial Engineering (IE) Associate Manager will manager day-to-day operations of these groups. The Production Integration team is responsible for enabling work for the Vehicle Integration Teams (VIT). This requires review of the master program schedules to validate work that is scheduled is ready to be worked, parts and paper are available, install sequences are appropriate and resources are in place. The PIs work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers through the assembly process of the assigned VIT. The PIs are also responsible for creating an executable short-range production schedule and coordinating solutions to issues as they arise. The PIs must also report any major schedule or technical issues that arise to the appropriate stakeholders for review and technical resolution. The PIs are the focal point of enabling the resolution of any issue that impedes uninterrupted processing.

The IE team focuses on reviewing and improving ATLO processes, performing simulations, conducting time studies, capacity modeling, streamline facility.vehicle flow layout and maintaining accurate labor standards. In addition, the IE team is responsible for throughput/bottleneck analysis across all KSC ATLO Orion sites and for driving Lean/Six Sigma initiatives. The team also is responsible for providing future state capacity planning.