Systems Engineering Ground Test - Pre-Production & Deployment System Test Manager
Littleton, COFull-time$145–270K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Lockheed Martin Space seeks a Pre-Production & Deployment Systems Test Manager for its FBM Ground Test Organization in Littleton, Colorado. The manager will lead Systems Engineers overseeing pre-production and deployment system-level testing. The role includes planning and coordinating integration and test activities, developing test requirements and plans, and managing technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation.
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Standard Job Description
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.
Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.
For over 70 years, the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) team has supported the Navy’s mission to provide affordable and credible strategic defense. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges on a program with a rich history and exciting future. We help keep this nation and our allies secure and we need your expertise to deliver amazing new technologies to our customers while maintaining the technical requirements of the strategic deterrence.
The FBM Ground Test Organization is currently seeking a Pre-Production & Deployment Systems Test Manager to join their Team in Littleton, CO. In this role you will manage a team of Systems Engineers overseeing the FBM Ground Test Program for pre-production and deployment system level testing.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Developing and maintaining Integration and Test Program Plans
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Developing and maintaining Detailed Test Plans
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Developing test requirements
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Coordinating across internal and external organizations for the planning and execution of integration and test activities
This reflects the standard job description for this position: Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Basic Qualifications
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Previous Management experience
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Experience with testing at one or more levels of assembly (Ex. system, sub-system, and package)
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Experience with anomaly investigation and corrective action
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Experience with the requirements and verification process
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Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance; US Citizenship required
Desired Skills
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Experience with CAMEO
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Experience with hardware simulation and emulation development
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Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing
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Active S or TS clearance
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Experience with missile assembly, integration, and test
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $145100.00 - $269500.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
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Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
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For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,576 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$145–270K/yr
- Colorado median$115–178K/yr923 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,504 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $207K, is 41% above the Colorado median midpoint ($148K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,073 open Systems Engineer jobs in Colorado and 11,576 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)152 open
- BAE Systems88 open
- Northrop Grumman47 open
- Experience
- Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (9,652 postings).
- Education
- 4,541 of the 11,576 open Systems Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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