Delivery & Sustainment Quality Rep Sr
Edwards AFB, CAFull-time$96–178K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Provides quality support for F-16 Foreign Military Sales flight test operations, including delivery, maintenance, and modification efforts. The role oversees contractual compliance, supports sustainment across the product life cycle, and helps ensure adherence to industry standards and customer regulations. It also supports final product acceptance and uses inspection, testing, surveillance, and analysis to improve quality performance and productivity.
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Standard Job Description
Provides product quality support in an operational environment including delivery, maintenance and modification efforts. Interprets and provides governance to ensure full compliance with industry standards and customer regulations for specific product operations, including fielded systems from initial procurement, delivery, supply chain, reutilization and disposal. Supports the execution of the sustainment strategy across the product life cycle. Measures sustainment quality performance. Designs and analyzes inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment while providing statistical analysis to determine root causes, establish corrective action, and apply strategies and/or systems designed to improve performance and productivity. Applies diagnostics and other condition-based maintenance techniques; performs product and process surveillance and collaborates with platform Users, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Sustainment to ensure quality standards are in place. Quality integrator responsible for overseeing contractual compliance with company and 3rd party operations conducting product delivery, maintenance and operations. Supports final acceptance of finished product and/or modification efforts.
SUpport F-16 Foreign Military Sales Flight Test operations. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Performing Aircraft Ground Damage Investigations
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Leading Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Plans
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Performing Corrective Action Request Validations and Investigations
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Collaborating with multiple functions/departments to assure compliance and continuous improvement.
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Reviewing and creates Flight Test Processes and Procedures
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Completing Process Surveillances, Audits, and External Inspection Preparation
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Conducting process and product evaluations, assessments, and validates key process capabilities.
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Configuration Management of assigned Aircraft
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 6 years of professional experience; or 4 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
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Root cause analysis and corrective action experience.
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Ability to interpret drawings and specifications for development of quality standards, methods, work instructions and procedures for inspection and test of manufactured products
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Knowledge / experience evaluating risk when establishing new processes, automated controls and improvements
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Proficient skill level with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
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Knowledgeable of AS9100 and DCMA 8210.1
Desired Skills
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Previous Quality Control/Assurance experience.
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Green Belt, Black Belt, ASQ CQE or CMQQE training/certification.
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A minimum of 5 years experience on the F-16 Fighter Aircraft.
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Working knowledge of AS9100 and DCMA 8210.1
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Demonstrated quality science experience in the following areas: statistical analysis, statistical process control, sampling, six sigma, process auditing or validation, and supplier quality management.
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Ability to design and analyze inspection and testing processes, mechanisms and equipment
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Ability to interpret performance specifications and other systems integration technical data
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Demonstrated ability to work at all levels to identify and drive root cause corrective actions
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Demonstrated understanding of audit techniques
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Demonstrated presentation skills
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $95900.00 - $178100.00
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 4,782 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$96–178K/yr
- California median$110–160K/yr268 salary ranges
- US median$88–143K/yr2,139 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $137K, is close to the California median midpoint ($137K) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 447 open Quality Assurance jobs in California and 4,782 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,683 postings).
- Education
- 1,634 of the 4,782 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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