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Description:The Staff System Safety Engineer (SSE) is responsible for ensuring that the products developed at LMMFC and sold to the customer are safe for the warfighter to use. A successful candidate will employ safety analysis techniques which will be performed on the end item and its subsystems. The primary job responsibility will be that of performing hazard analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements.

The Staff SSE analyzes and recommends safety features and controls for system design, software, training and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards. The Staff SSE also performs and supports the development of safety documentation to satisfy customer and contractual requirements. The candidate works with systems and software engineering on architecture definition, use cases and generates software safety analyses in accordance with government guidelines. Expectations are the Staff SSE can work independently with minimal oversight, based on professional experience and educational background, while helping mentor and train early career SSEs in the System Safety discipline.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support the program by developing hazard analyses, software safety assessments, hazardous material management planning and execution.
• Analyze and recommend safety criteria in system design, equipment and procedures to control or eliminate hazards.
• Prepare and deliver presentations at technical reviews and customer briefings.
• Flow down system safety requirements to suppliers and verify design implementation.
• Assist in requirements development and verification.
• Reviews specifications, technical documentation, and design changes for impacts to system safety.
• Support customer and test/operational range requirements
• Participates in the development of testing activities to ensure safety requirements are satisfied.
• Prepare technical documentation and presentation material to support various independent safety board meetings to gain approval on system design.
• Participates in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assists in identification of causes and corrective actions.

Why Join Us

We're looking for a skilled and experienced System Safety Engineer to join our team. As an ideal candidate, you're a collaborative and detail-oriented professional with a passion for system safety and a strong background in engineering. You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, develop your skills in system safety engineering, and contribute to the success of our mission. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, flexible work schedules, and a culture that empowers employees to think big and make a difference. If you're a motivated and experienced System Safety Engineer looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply.

From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin's comprehensive benefits package here.

Further Information About This Opportunity:

This position is in Orlando. Discover more about our Orlando, Florida location.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in an engineering discipline
• Experience developing and implementing a System Safety Program IAW MIL-STD-882
• Developing and evaluating system safety requirements
• Familiarity with implementing a Software Safety Program IAW AOP-52 and DoD guidelines
• Proficient knowledge of MIL-STD-882 and its associated analyses
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to make formal presentations to large groups
• Interacts well in a team atmosphere with engineers, suppliers, program managers and customers
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting independent government Safety Review Boards
• Knowledge of Human Factors Engineering
• Familiarity with missile and launcher systems
• Secret clearance with current 6-year background check
• Model-based engineering knowledge
• Experience with DOORS requirements application
• Candidate should be a self-starter capable of performing tasks with little direction
• Effective analytical problem solving skills, the ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy
• Able to learn and work with System Safety specific software tools

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: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

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.

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

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: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Systems Engineering: Specialty Engineering

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First