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

Lockheed Martin - Greenville, SC

Full-time - Mid Level

Greenville, SC

10,001+ employees

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The position involves serving as a technical interface for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Field Sustainment team at Amendola Air Base, Italy, focusing on the F-35 aircraft. The successful candidate will troubleshoot and analyze maintenance issues, provide training, and support customer personnel while ensuring operational efficiency and safety. This role requires significant interaction with both customer and engineering teams, necessitating strong communication skills and a collaborative approach.

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.
• Support 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 updates to Customer and Program Management.

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