Aircraft Field Support Engineer Staff, F-35 Program, RAAF Tindal, AU

Job Description

Join the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Field Sustainment Team! This position is located at RAAF Base Tindal in Australia! The successful candidate will relocate to Australia, working in-country as part of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics technical interface to the on-site customer (Operations and Maintenance) in resolving issues arising from aircraft maintenance or modification activities for all matters dealing with the F-35 aircraft.

The preferred candidate will either be a Vehicle Systems (VS / APG), Mission Systems (MS / Avionics), or Supportable Low Observable (SLO) Subject Matter Expert (SME) or be an emerging authority who has the skill set to accomplish troubleshooting and analysis of APG / Vehicle Systems or Avionics / Mission Systems.

SLO and structural repairs. Interested candidates are expected to commit two years on-site.

Other 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. US Department of Defense (DoD) mandated vaccinations 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, site manager or program management.

Lead and track multiple engineering efforts and provide periodic status to customer and program management.

Must be able to obtain F-35 Special Program Access. Must have at least an Interim Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain a Final Secret Security Clearance.

Must be a US Citizen. This position is located at a facility that will require special access.

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

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Desired skills

The following Desired Skills are not required but are those skills that would set a candidate apart from the other candidates :

• 3 years of experience with Avionics / Mission Systems (MS)
• Previous Field Service Engineer (FSE) experience highly desired.
• Experience communicating to Military leadership teams and Senior Leaders
• Fault isolation and problem analysis experience at the sub-system level.
• Technical report writing skills
• Experience with technical drawings / schematics reading and interpretation.
• Experience with engineering tools to include, but not limited to FSE Vision / VAST, PDM, VAS, JEDI, JARVIS, and CRE.
• Knowledge of CATIA and System / Software Engineering Environment (S / SEE)
• Experience partnering with military operational units
30+ days ago