OpEx Assistant to Flight Test & Operations VP
Fort Worth, TXFull-time$159–295K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The OpEx Assistant supports operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as a liaison between the Vice President of Flight Test & Operations, line management, customers, and internal stakeholders. The role reviews project status and budgets, manages schedules, prepares status reports, and develops resolutions and monitoring mechanisms to address project issues and meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals.
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Standard Job Description
Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between Vice President of Flight test & Operations and line management, the customer, and internal stkaeholders. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
Basic Qualifications
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Previous professional engineering experience and proven success working independently as well as in teams to successfully deliver against multiple priorities
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Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
Desired Skills
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Familiarity with Lockheed Martin's engineering processes and procedures
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Experience with project management tools and methodologies
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A track record of producing high-quality work under tight deadlines for various projects.
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Ability to influence multi-functional and cross organizational teams.
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Forward thinker, able to anticipate future needs, willing to go above and beyond with focus on organizational success.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $158700.00 - $294700.00
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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 15,214 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$159–295K/yr
- Texas median$110–175K/yr487 salary ranges
- US median$104–167K/yr9,534 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $227K, is 58% above the Texas median midpoint ($144K) — in the top quarter of Project Management salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,155 open Project Management jobs in Texas and 15,214 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Burns & McDonnell45 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN35 open
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)31 open
- Experience
- Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (12,106 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,194 of the 15,214 open Project Management jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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