Sr. Material Program Lead

Materials & Process Engineering Program Lead Engineer

The Materials & Process Engineering (M&PE) Department, which functions within Hardware Engineering, is looking for a M&PE Program Lead engineer to participate as a member of the Materials Design and Development Section. The ideal candidate will be accountable for leveraging Hardware Engineering and M&PE disciplines for technical execution of the design, development, and manufacturing of missile hardware. The M&PE Program Lead is responsible for supporting all program milestones and providing materials engineering technical execution to the committed production schedule and cost. In addition, the M&PE Program Lead is responsible for coordinating M&PE resources to effectively meet program requirements.

What You Will Do

• Provide M&PE support for Program's review board meetings (i.e., CCB, MRB, PCB, ERB, PMCB)
• Ensure peer reviews are conducted and M&PE position aligned with Program deliverable and "One Voice" prior to report distribution
• Manage workload to ensure that programs and M&PE team receive the required support consistent with schedule needs
• Lead the Program Team in the following activities: The development of trade studies to identify appropriate materials, material properties, and processes; Benchmark material technologies and methods of materials testing; Document justifications for material choices
• Ensure labor costs and estimated completion schedules provided by M&PE are negotiated, understood and meet product/program commitments
• Resolution of technical and operational problems
• Mentor and/or train early career engineers
• Participate on Failure Investigation Teams to provide technical support
• Support proposal efforts that include M&PE tasks.
• Be able to present technical position or data results summary to large technical audience (example: MMSTN, TIG, or ERB)

The Sr. Material Program Lead job is in Tucson, AZ and the position is onsite.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience
• Experience in materials problem solving (i.e. process improvements or choosing alternate material or protective coatings to address specific material issues)
• Experience with mechanical test methods (i.e. tensile, compression, lap shear, hardness, lap shear, viscosity) and/or chemical analysis methods ( FT-IR spectroscope, cure rate of adhesives, DMA, TMA, Gas Chromatography, etc...)

What We Offer

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