We are looking for a creative Project Engineer and Cost Account Manager (CAM) to join an exciting and dynamic team in designing, developing, testing, and troubleshooting complex next generation equipment for Missile Defense applications.
Location: This position does not support teleworking. You will need to live near our Lockheed Martin Space facility in Sunnyvale, CA and be expected to work a flexible 9x80 schedule in the office full-time.
What does this role look like?
The Missile Defense industry has experiencing significant growth, and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers. This CAM position supports the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program. You will support several Missile Hardware Development and Production projects as the Cost Account Manager. Projects include a wide array of technologies including Electronics, Mechanical Design, Propulsion, Ordnance as well as Hardware Performance Analysis. You will work with a dynamic cross functional team of engineers who support a wide array of next generation development across the THAAD portfolio in a fast‑paced, mission‑oriented environment.
Key activities you will execute and accomplish in this role:
• Understand authorized scope, WBS/OBS, work packages and planning packages
• Draft and Update WAD language to represent the SOW and BOE so that anyone reading the WAD understands the scope at a control account level.
• Maintain a credible time-phased budget aligned to the plan
• Seek justifiable MR upon identifying risk to your CA
• Ensure IMS progress/status is captured on time with detailed slip justifications
• Accurate and detailed IMS statusing is provided to planners
• Provide detailed SRB inputs (what is changing, why is it changing, who have I impacted downstream, what mitigation have I inputted)
• Knowledge of performance (XY, % Complete, story points for QBD accuracy)
• Owns ETC/EAC assumptions and changes
• Schedules the ETC meetings
• Performs the updates while providing engineering leads with all available data to accurately determine headcount
• Analyzes impacts live to have detailed justification for EAC impacts
• Provides on time inputs to finance to allow for refinement
• Manages ETC for accuracy (not pulling or pushing to the back end of a CA)
• Understand actuals and the resources charging as well as material/labor drivers
• Evaluates actuals on a weekly basis for accuracy
• Provides detailed inputs to finance on charge number creating and closure
• Maintain accuracy on open CNs
• Explain cost/schedule variance with root cause and quantified impact
• Input revisions based on redlines/feedback
• Draft and Submit into MFC VARs and/or eVARs
• Identify corrective actions, risks, opportunities and decision needs
To be effective in this role, you will need:
• 5+ years professional experience, previous CAM experience preferred
• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance, thus you are a US Citizen.
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 design changes, specification and drawing releases. Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
