System Safety Engineer – Early Career – Dallas, TX

Job ID: 685935BR Date posted: Jan. 31, 2025 Program: Dallas / TM / Prec Fires / R – PROD
Description:Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is a recognized leader in the design, development, manufacture, and sustainment of advanced combat weapon systems, including precision engagement ground and air-launched tactical missiles, defense systems, and situational awareness systems for the U.S. and allied militaries.

Missiles and Fire Control is seeking new graduates for System Safety Engineering positions in Dallas, TX!

The System Safety Engineer (SSE) Associate (Asc) is responsible for ensuring that the products developed at LMMFC and sold to the customer are safe for the warfighter to use. A successful candidate will employ safety analysis techniques which will be performed on the end item and its subsystems. The primary job responsibility will be that of performing hazard analysis in accordance with MIL-STD-882 and contractual requirements.

The SSE Asc analyzes and recommends safety features and controls for system design, software, training and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards. The SSE Asc also performs and supports the development of safety documentation to satisfy customer and contractual requirements. The candidate works with systems and software engineering on architecture definition, use cases and generates software safety analyses in accordance with government guidelines. A successful candidate will spend a majority of the time working in a team environment, with direction and guidance provided by a senior team member.

Additional job duties may include the following:

• Support the program by developing hazard analyses, software safety assessments, hazardous material management planning and execution.
• Help prepare presentation material and Technical Data Packages (TDPs) for technical reviews and customer briefings.
• Flow down system safety requirements to suppliers and verify design implementation.
• Assist in requirements development and verification.
• Review specifications, technical documentation, and design changes for impacts to system safety.
• Support customer and test/operational range requirements
• Participate in the development of testing activities to ensure safety requirements are satisfied.
• Participates in accident investigations involving damage to products or related facilities and assists in identification of causes and corrective actions.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in an engineering discipline (electrical, mechanical, industrial preferred)
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to make formal presentations to large groups
• Interacts well in a team atmosphere with engineers, suppliers, program managers and customers
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance
Desired Skills:
• Experienced with MS Office applications including high level of proficiency with Access and Excel
• Candidate should be a self-starter capable of performing tasks with little direction
• Effective analytical problem solving skills, the ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy
• Able to learn and work with System Safety specific software tools
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4×10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 – 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: 4 yr and up College
Business Unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Systems Engineering: Specialty Engineering
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First

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