F-35 Aircraft Field Support Engineer Asc Mgr, Misawa AB (Level 4)
Job title: F-35 Aircraft Field Support Engineer Asc Mgr, Misawa AB (Level 4) in Fort Worth, TX at Lockheed Martin
Company: Lockheed Martin
Job description: LMCareers Business UnitAERONAUTICS COMPANYSecurity ClearanceSecret with Investigation or CV date within 5 yearsShiftMultiple shifts availableDirect/IndirectDirectBusiness AreaAeronautics CompanyDepartment3OV100:AFS SUST - FOJob ClassProduct SupportJob CategoryExperienced ProfessionalProgramF-35 SUSAReq TypeFull-TimeJob DescriptionJoin the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics company as an Aircraft Field Service Engineer (FSE) Associate Manager on our Aeronautics Field Sustainment (AFS) team! This position will support the F-35 Program at our Misawa Air Base, Japan location. This position will lead and supervise the FSE team supporting the USAF F-35 standup and be the subject Matter Expert (SME) in Avionics and Mission Systems (MS) reporting to the USAF LM Site Lead. It is desired the individual also be an emerging authority in APG/Vehicle Systems (VS) and Supportable Low Observable (SLO)/Structures, with the skill set to accomplish troubleshooting and analysis of MS, VS, or SLO.The candidate will act as part of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Field Sustainment (AFS) technical interface to the USAF on-site Customer (both Operations and Maintenance) in resolving issues arising from maintenance and modification activities for all matters dealing with the F-35 aircraft.What You Will Be Doing
Responsibilities include:
- Accomplish troubleshooting and analysis of difficulties experienced in the field.
- Attend debriefings to aid in the rapid identification of emerging issues that require company intervention to avoid aircraft downtime.
- Document all unusual operation / maintenance problems to ensure the company is apprised of and can identify emerging failure trends.
- Initiate Action Requests (ARs). Identify unique operational problems that require technical, procedural, or quality assurance actions to resolve. Provide on-site assistance to company and customer personnel initiating ARs.
- Provide training to customer personnel. Must be able to work and interact with the maintainer as well as the professional engineers from other F-35 companies as a peer.
- Some travel required; candidates must be willing and able to deploy with customer to possible hazardous duty locations. Long term deployments may be required.
- Applicant must be able to work and communicate well both orally and written in a team environment as this position involves significant and continued interface with customer personnel at all levels.
- Provide support for the assigned site on aircraft ground maintenance and operational limitations. Direct on-site support as requested by customer, sitemanager or program management. Lead and track multiple engineering efforts and provide periodic status to customer and program management.
- Selected candidate must be willing and able to work other shifts as needed.
- Must be able to obtain F-35 Special Program Access. Must have an active Secret Security Clearance. Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that will require special access.
- Minimum 5 years of aircraft maintenance professional experience
- Team leadership experience
- F-35 Avionics, Structures or APG experience.
- Multi-system aircraft training/experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Office software programs.
- Experience reading engineering drawings, blueprints and interpreting/translating instructions to specific maintenance mechanics/technicians.
- Avionics/Mission Systems (MS) experience
- DoD COMSEC experience
- Previous F-35 Field Service Engineer (FSE) experience
- Fault Isolation and problem analysis experience at the sub-system level
- Technical report writing skills
- Experience with drawing/schematics reading and interpretation
- Experience with Engineering tools to include but not limited to PDM, VAS, JEDI, JARVIS and CRE
- Knowledge of CATIA & System/Software Engineering Environment (S/SEE)
- Airframe & Power plant (A&P) license