Operations Engineer Associate - Early Career
Grand Prairie, TXFull-time$58–108K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Operations Product Lead Associate serves as a bridge between the shop floor and program team, leading initiatives that support program success. The role develops recovery plans, supports product producibility and quality, and coordinates communication across teams. Its engineering activities may involve disciplines such as manufacturing, process, product, quality assurance, reliability, and test.
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Standard Job Description
As an Operations Product Lead Asc., you will serve as the bridge between the shop floor and the program team, driving initiatives that make a tangible impact on program success. You will be responsible for spearheading key initiatives, developing and implementing recovery plans, and ensuring seamless communication and collaboration between teams. You will perform activities involving the producibility and quality of the product, and the processes that directly pertain, encompassing primarily one or more of the following engineering disciplines: failure analysis, industrial, manufacturing, manufacturing equipment, process, product, quality assurance, reliability, supplier quality, Lean Six Sigma, test, and tool.
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Spearheading Yield Improvment (YIT), Corrective Actions (CA), Cost Improvment, and other initiatives that drive program benefits
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Serving as the programs voice within the Dallas Operations, keeping site leaders and staff informed of key program details
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Developing and implementing recovery plans as needed to ensure program success
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Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continous improvement and growth
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial engineering, Mechanical engineering, or in a related engineer discpline
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Lean Six Sigma experience
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Ability to obtain a U.S. Secert Security Clearance
Desired Skills
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Project management experience
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Strong communication skills
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Previous experience/interface with customers
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Previous manufacturing/production operations experience
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $58200.00 - $108200.00
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 573 open Operations Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$58–108K/yr
- Texas median$83–131K/yr45 salary ranges
- US median$95–145K/yr442 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $83K, is 21% below the Texas median midpoint ($105K) — in the lowest quarter of Operations Engineer salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 108 open Operations Engineer jobs in Texas and 573 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- SpaceX48 open
- Amazon21 open
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)10 open
- Experience
- Operations Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (465 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 383 of the 573 open Operations Engineer jobs (67%) 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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