Project Engineer Sr - E3
Stennis Space Center, MSFull-time$85–158K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Senior Project Engineer will serve as a Manufacturing Project Manager on the Propulsion Manufacturing Assembly Composites team, driving program interests through cost, schedule, and technical execution across the program lifecycle. The role coordinates with finance, program control, planning, production, manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to support contractual delivery, resolve challenges, communicate program expectations and progress, and support business development.
Skills & qualifications
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Benefits
Full job description
Standard Job Description
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Serve as Manufacturing Project Manager (MPM) within the Propulsion Manufacturing Assembly Composites (PMAC) team; drive program interests through cost, schedule, and technical execution across the program lifecycle
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Work closely with PMAC Finance representatives and program control account managers (CAM) to ensure prudent program baseline planning, integrated master schedule integration, schedule/cost validation, and awareness of risk and opportunities
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Coordinate daily with planners, production managers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, and other engineers as needed to ensure delivery on contractual commitments
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Resolve unplanned challenges to drive issue resolution velocity
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Establish, manage, and communicate programmatic expectations, progress, goals, roles, responsibilities, and objectives
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Support business development objectives to capture additional commercial business
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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Experience with Program/Project Management
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Aerospace or related industry experience
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Ability to work independently according to a general plan or goal
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Knowledge of or experience with the product life cycle process to include systems requirements and design through final acceptance and delivery
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US Citizen
Desired Skills
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Industrial Engineering or related engineering degree from and accredited college
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Demonstrated experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
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Demonstrated experience with development of Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
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Experience with Manufacturing and Integration/Test
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Proposal preparation and negotiation
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Familiarity with DoD missile programs and Space missions and programs
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $85300.00 - $158300.00
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 5,122 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–158K/yr
- US median$96–145K/yr2,709 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $122K, is close to the US median midpoint ($121K) — in the middle half of Project Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 41 open Project Engineer jobs in Mississippi and 5,122 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Mississippi
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,953 postings).
- Education
- 3,205 of the 5,122 open Project Engineer jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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