Aircraft Field Service Engineer (Level 4) - Amendola, Italy NEW

Lockheed Martin - Greenville, SC

Full-time - Mid Level

Greenville, SC

10,001+ employees

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Aircraft Field Service Engineer (Level 4) position at Lockheed Martin involves providing technical support and expertise for the F-35 aircraft at Amendola Air Base, Italy. The role requires a subject matter expert in various aircraft systems, focusing on troubleshooting and resolving maintenance issues while ensuring effective communication with customer personnel. The engineer will also be responsible for training customer staff and documenting operational problems to identify trends and improve aircraft performance.

Responsibilities

• 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 operational/maintenance problems to ensure the company is apprised of and can identify emerging failure trends.
• Initiate Action Requests (ARs) for 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.
• Work and interact with maintainers and professional engineers from other F-35 companies as a peer.
• 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 tasks and provide periodic status to Customer and Program Management.
• Willingness to travel and deploy with Customer personnel to worldwide and hazardous duty locations.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience with 5th Generation Fighter Aircraft (F-22 or F-35) focusing on Avionics/Mission Systems (MS), Vehicle System/APG (VS), or Supportable Low Observable (SLO)/structures.
• Final Transferable Secret Security Clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Field Service FSE/REP experience highly desirable.
• Well-versed in troubleshooting Vehicle Systems (APG), Mission Systems/Avionics (MS), and Supportable Low Observable (SLO)/structures.
• Technical report writing skills.
• Experience with drawing/schematics reading and interpretation.
• Fault Isolation and problem analysis experience at the sub-system level.
• Airframe & Power plant (A&P) license.
• Experience with engineering tools including FSE Vision/VAST, PDM, VAS, JEDI, JARVIS, and CRE.
• Knowledge of CATIA & System/Software Engineering Environment (S/SEE).

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition