19 engineering jobs found in Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Description: We are Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® is on the leading edge of manufacturing innovation. We continually look for ways to improve processes and performance while extracting cost by focusing on the areas of advanced composites, additive manufacturing and high-temperature structures. • Manages the day to day activities for manufacturing engineering team in support of multiple programs. Lead organizational objectives and support line of business customers. • Responsible for project coordination, process reviews, process improvement initiatives and oversight for manufacturing projects in support of production operations. • Establish overall tempo for engineering team and will collaborate cross-functionally with other organizations including production engineering team, production operations, quality and production control. • Responsible for overall department budgets and scheduling of assets to support program needs. • Represent Manufacturing Engineering team during...

Description: As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing manufacturing processes and procedures to drive operational excellence. You will leverage your expertise in materials, tooling, and process flow to define build sequences and ensure product quality, efficiency, and manufacturability. Key Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and refine manufacturing processes and build sequences based on a strong understanding of materials and fabrication techniques. Evaluate equipment and tool performance to verify efficiency, reliability, and alignment with production requirements. Identify and resolve issues related to tooling, process capability, and production inefficiencies through root cause analysis and corrective action implementation. Collaborate with design engineering teams to provide feedback on design concepts and specifications, ensuring manufacturability and optimal use of available equipment and methods. Operate within a...

Description: As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing manufacturing processes and procedures to drive operational excellence. You will leverage your expertise in materials, tooling, and process flow to define build sequences and ensure product quality, efficiency, and manufacturability. Key Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and refine manufacturing processes and build sequences based on a strong understanding of materials and fabrication techniques. Evaluate equipment and tool performance to verify efficiency, reliability, and alignment with production requirements. Identify and resolve issues related to tooling, process capability, and production inefficiencies through root cause analysis and corrective action implementation. Collaborate with design engineering teams to provide feedback on design concepts and specifications, ensuring manufacturability and optimal use of available equipment and methods. Operate within a...

Description: We are Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® is on the leading edge of manufacturing innovation. We continually look for ways to improve processes and performance while extracting cost by focusing on the areas of subsystems installation and integration. What You Will Be Doing Lead small teams focused on portions of the build to ensure production needs are met and discrete deliverables are completed ahead of need. Conduct critical design reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with manufacturing processes. Develop assembly plans and innovative solutions to address daily challenges, ensuring efficient production flow. Create and maintain detailed manufacturing products and documentation. Provide direct support on the production floor, troubleshooting issues and implementing solutions. Utilize Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to develop manufacturing processes. Interpret drawings and...

Description: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Be More Than You Can Imagine. At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, we're taking innovation to the next level. From designing the most advanced air vehicle to designing aircraft that defies gravity, our engineers live on the cutting edge of technology. Never have the opportunities for a technical career been so limitless. Who You Are You are a multi-faceted teammate able to communicate and function effectively on an engineering team to create a collaborative environment that allows for the establishment of mission goals. Self-motivated and inspired, you thrive in an environment where you are empowered to work your craft, never settling for the bare minimum. Selected candidate will support testing during the build process. • Interact with the aircraft across multiple sub-systems throughout assembly. • Responsible for testing of all systems and sub-systems on the aircraft. • Responsible for developing new test equipment as testing...

Description: At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, we're taking innovation to the next level. From designing the most advanced air vehicle to designing aircraft that defies gravity, our engineers live on the cutting edge of technology. Never have the opportunities for a technical career been so limitless. Selected candidate will support testing during the build process. • Interact with the aircraft across multiple sub-systems throughout assembly. • Responsible for testing of all systems and sub-systems on the aircraft. • Responsible for developing new test equipment as testing requirements are updated, as well as documenting complex test procedures for use by non-technical co-workers when writing procedures. • Support the MTE Project team with the project management of test equipment and Support Equipment. -Must be available to work any shift and weekends as required. What’s In It For You Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by...

Description: As a Staff Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing manufacturing processes and procedures to drive operational excellence. You will leverage your expertise in materials, tooling, and process flow to define build sequences and ensure product quality, efficiency, and manufacturability. Key Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and refine manufacturing processes and build sequences based on a strong understanding of materials and fabrication techniques. Evaluate equipment and tool performance to verify efficiency, reliability, and alignment with production requirements. Identify and resolve issues related to tooling, process capability, and production inefficiencies through root cause analysis and corrective action implementation. Collaborate with design engineering teams to provide feedback on design concepts and specifications, ensuring manufacturability and optimal use of available equipment and methods. Operate within a...

Description: The ADP team is looking for a Sr. Fabrication Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Palmdale, CA! What You Will Be Doing Lead small teams to ensure production needs are met and discrete deliverables are completed ahead of need. Conduct critical design reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with manufacturing processes. Develop assembly plans and innovative solutions to address daily challenges, ensuring efficient production flow. Create and maintain detailed manufacturing products and documentation. Provide direct support on the production floor, troubleshooting issues and implementing solutions. Utilize Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to develop manufacturing processes. Interpret drawings and model-based designs, translating them into actionable steps for manufacturability for the production environment. Collaborate with team members to explore out-of-the-box thinking and...

Description: As a Skunk, Manufacturing Engineer you are a Visionary, looking beyond today’s challenges, seeing far into the future and identifying capability gaps. You are Passionate, Skunks truly love a challenge and bring an honest commitment to advancing the state of flight and technology. Skunks are continuously learning to build skill sets. This passion for learning helps them understand engineering trade-offs to strike the right balance in their designs. Candidate should be experienced in creating and administering manufacturing plans for make and buy parts, materials masters, and planning tracking mechanisms. This position is in Palmdale, CA  Discover Palmdale. What’s In It For You: 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....

Description: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Be More Than You Can Imagine. At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, we're taking innovation to the next level. From designing the most advanced air vehicle to designing aircraft that defies gravity, our engineers live on the cutting edge of technology. Never have the opportunities for a technical career been so limitless. Who You Are You are a multi-faceted teammate able to communicate and function effectively on an engineering team to create a collaborative environment that allows for the establishment of mission goals. Self-motivated and inspired, you thrive in an environment where you are empowered to work your craft, never settling for the bare minimum. Selected candidate will support testing during the build process. • Interact with the aircraft across multiple sub-systems throughout assembly. • Responsible for testing of all systems and sub-systems on the aircraft. • Responsible for developing new test equipment as testing...

Description: Description: We are Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® is on the leading edge of manufacturing innovation. We continually look for ways to improve processes and performance while extracting cost by focusing on the areas of subsystems installation and integration. What You Will Be Doing: Work corrective actions for discrepancies in a manufacturing environment across multiple portions of the build. Conduct critical reviews of processes to identify gaps and close the process gaps with the intent of reducing variation and discrepancies in the build. Collaborate with quality engineering and production operations to triage repeat failure modes in a production environment. Utilize lean six sigma toolsets to identify root causes and develop corrective action plans. Collaborate with team members to explore out-of-the-box thinking and contribute to product improvement initiatives. What’s In It For You: We offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits...

Description: Do you want to be part of a legacy of innovation that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible? At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, we’re seeking talented individuals ready to tackle the most advanced projects in aerospace. As an Aircraft Material Applicator, you’ll be part of a high-performing team supporting classified aircraft programs that help shape the future of defense technology. What You Will Be Doing: In this hands-on role, you'll perform a range of material application techniques including spray, wipe, brush, dip, and heat-activated processes on aircraft parts, assemblies, and finished aircraft. You’ll interpret blueprints and engineering documents to determine appropriate surface preparations, application techniques, and masking requirements. • Prepare and treat aircraft surfaces using sanding, masking, stripping, and cleaning procedures • Apply adhesives, aerodynamic fillers, sealants, and coatings with precision—often requiring strict adherence to...

Description: Step into the future of flight with Lockheed Martin as an Aerospace Project Engineer (Level 3) in Palmdale — where cutting-edge innovation meets mission-critical execution. This is more than project coordination — it’s technical leadership. You’ll manage cost, schedule, and performance while solving real-world engineering challenges in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment. If you thrive on ownership, collaboration, and delivering results that matter, this is your opportunity to make an impact where precision and performance define success. Join a team that builds what others only imagine. What You Will Be Doing Coordinates planning, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering projects within area of assigned responsibility. Plans and formulates engineering program; reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications. Evaluates and approves...

Description: We’re looking for a Production Completion Associate Manager –in Palmdale, CA. This role is for 2nd shift. This role sits at the heart of production execution, leading first-line leaders and a represented workforce across interior completion, sub-assemblies, avionics, and mechanical operations. You’ll be responsible for ensuring customer expectations, engineering requirements, and regulatory standards are met—while building, guiding, and empowering high-performing teams across multiple production sites. If you thrive in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment where leadership, accountability, and excellence matter, this is where your impact will be felt every day. What You Will Be Doing Supervises first line leaders, represented workforce, and the interior completion of a development program to include sub-assemblies, avionics, mechanics, and production sites. Ensures customer, engineering, specifications and regulations are met. Responsible for coordinating...

Description: Builds up, fabricates, cures, and assembles various types of plastic, ceramic and composite products and assemblies, including bonded and mechanically-fastened assemblies, where required information is not readily available, operational sequences change or vary considerably, tooling is inadequate or not provided, where it is required to exercise a knowledge of the physical properties of materials such as, but not limited to, thermosets, thermoplastics, plastics, ceramics and composites and their forming and processing characteristics, and of the physical and bonding characteristics of materials and adhesives used. Locates to all critical reference points and assures coordination of parts and subassemblies to exacting tolerances when required in building assemblies, and in incorporating design or modification changes, which materially alter previous assembly references and sequence. Builds laminated assemblies by determining proper placement, and laying up composite,...

Description: As an ADP Production Operations Associate Manager you will be responsible for: Supervises the interior completion of aircraft to include sub-assemblies, avionics, mechanics, and aircraft production sites. • Ensures customer, engineering, and FAA specifications and regulations are met. • Ensures tasks are completed on schedule and within budget, following established procedures, schedules and work plans • Sets priorities and job assignments. Coordinates with Manufacturing Test Engineers and Responsible Engineers to accomplish system check out procedures What’s In It For You Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy: • Medical • Dental • 401k • Paid time off • Work/life balance • Career development • Mentorship opportunities • Rewards & recognition Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits...

Description: We are Lockheed Martin The story of aviation has always been the story of people who have the perseverance to fail, to try again and to one day succeed. Since Lockheed Martin’s inception and continuing today, the passion to advance aeronautical design and help our customers achieve mission results has been ingrained in our culture. It is that passion combined with a strategic focus on ever changing global opportunities that shapes our path forward. Who You Are You are a visionary leader with a passion for operational excellence and team success. You bring: • Exceptional organizational and communication skills to align cross-functional efforts. • A strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. • Proven ability to lead in complex, fast-paced environments. What You Will Be Doing • Leading an advanced manufacturing teams in a dynamic and high-stakes environment. • Overseeing the fabrication of complex composite parts and assemblies. • Supporting...

Description: We are Lockheed Martin The story of aviation has always been the story of people who have the perseverance to fail, to try again and to one day succeed. Since Lockheed Martin’s inception and continuing today, the passion to advance aeronautical design and help our customers achieve mission results has been ingrained in our culture. It is that passion combined with a strategic focus on ever changing global opportunities that shapes our path forward. Who You Are You are a visionary leader with a passion for operational excellence and team success. You bring: • Exceptional organizational and communication skills to align cross-functional efforts. • A strong commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. • Proven ability to lead in complex, fast-paced environments. What You Will Be Doing • Leading an advanced manufacturing teams in a dynamic and high-stakes environment. • Overseeing the fabrication of complex composite parts and assemblies. • Supporting...

Description: Determines methods, sequences, and inspection operations required, inspects and approves or rejects precision tools during and after manufacture for workmanship, accuracy, practicability and conformance to other specifications; inspects all types of tooling such as jigs, patterns, tool masters, fixtures, templates, master layouts, foundry dries, and dies, involving multiple coordinated location points, dimensions and/or tooling holes in several planes not at right angles or parallel to one another, irregular contours requiring spring-back and dimensional calculations, multiple acting principles and computation of compound angles; inspects metal or cloth layouts and templates involving the coordination with mating parts of adjacent contours and assemblies, making all needed measurements and compensations to check triangulations; inspects templates made to exacting tolerances from blueprints for irregular shaped and complex parts checking or making three dimensional...