Reliability Engineer Associate / Orlando, FL

The Reliability Engineering team at Lockheed Martin is crucial for missile development and sustainment, ensuring subsystems meet performance and safety standards. This role involves conducting Root Cause Analyses, applying statistical models for reliability prediction, assisting in test planning, managing reliability databases, participating in design reviews, and contributing to continuous improvement. The position requires collaboration with various groups to achieve reliability goals.

Must Have

• Conduct Root Cause Analyses (RCA) on test and field data
• Prepare clear reports and recommend corrective actions
• Apply Weibull, exponential, and other statistical models to predict component and system reliability
• Assist in designing and executing environmental, vibration, thermal, and life cycle tests
• Collect and interpret test data
• Maintain reliability databases (e.g., MIL HDBK 217, FMEA)
• Ensure traceability of test results
• Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews, providing reliability input
• Highlight potential risk areas in design reviews
• Contribute to the development of reliability standards, procedures, and best practice documentation
• Work with suppliers, manufacturing, and quality groups to ensure reliability goals are met
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• Coursework or project work in reliability engineering, statistical analysis, fatigue/structural analysis, or control systems
• Proficiency with SQL or R for data analysis
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to interpret complex test data and translate findings into actionable recommendations
• Effective written and oral communication
• Ability to produce clear technical reports and present findings to multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to obtain a security clearance (U.S. citizen or permanent resident required)
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, multidisciplinary environment

Good to Have

• Internship or co-op experience on aerospace or missile systems
• Exposure to failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
• Exposure to Reliability Predictions
• Exposure to any other reliability analysis
• Knowledge in statistics, binomial events, population comparisons, or design of experiments
• Knowledge of MIL STD 1629, MIL HDBK 217, or similar defense reliability standards
• Familiarity with reliability software (e.g., ReliaSoft, Minitab)

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with generous matching and company contributions
• Mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs
• Generous parental leave policies
• Mother's rooms at facilities to support transition and work/life balance
• Paid Time Off, paid holidays, and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations
• Flexible work schedules, dependent on position

Job Responsibilities

Job ID: 712773BR Date posted: Dec. 19, 2025

Description:

About the Team:

The Reliability Engineering team is a core part of the missile development and sustainment effort, ensuring that every subsystem meets stringent performance and safety requirements throughout the product lifecycle. We work closely with design, test, and production groups to identify, analyze, and mitigate failure mechanisms, driving continuous improvement and mission critical availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Failure Analysis & Reporting – Conduct Root Cause Analyses (RCA) on test and field data, prepare clear reports, and recommend corrective actions.
• Reliability Modeling – Apply Weibull, exponential, and other statistical models to predict component and system reliability.
• Test Planning & Execution – Assist in designing and executing environmental, vibration, thermal, and life cycle tests; collect and interpret data.
• Data Management – Maintain reliability databases (e.g., MIL HDBK 217, FMEA) and ensure traceability of test results.
• Design Reviews – Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews, providing reliability input and highlighting potential risk areas.
• Continuous Improvement – Contribute to the development of reliability standards, procedures, and best practice documentation.
• Collaboration – Work with suppliers, manufacturing, and quality groups to ensure reliability goals are met across the supply chain.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Academic Experience: Coursework or project work in reliability engineering, statistical analysis, fatigue/structural analysis, or control systems.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency with SQL, or R for data analysis; familiarity with reliability software (e.g., ReliaSoft, Minitab) is a plus.
• Analytical Ability: Strong problem solving skills; ability to interpret complex test data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Communication: Effective written and oral communication; ability to produce clear technical reports and present findings to multidisciplinary teams.
• Clearance: Ability to obtain a security clearance (U.S. citizen or permanent resident required).
• Team Orientation: Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, multidisciplinary environment.

Desired Skills:

• Internship or co op experience on aerospace or missile systems.
• Exposure to failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), Reliability Predictions, or any other reliability analysis.
• Knowledge in statistics, binomial events, population comparisons, or design of experiments.
• Knowledge of MIL STD 1629, MIL HDBK 217, or similar defense reliability standards.

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: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

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: Product Support

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First

About

At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.

United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.

Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.

Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

• Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
• Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
• Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions

Qualifications

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• Collaborative
• There is no innovation without imagination. You bring new, different and exciting ideas to the table every day. You are committed to the success of your team.
• Curious
• The ability to explore and drive new ideas. You think innovatively to come up with creative solutions to complex challenges.
• Goal-oriented
• From planning and organizing to decision making, goal orientation produces impactful results. You set goals and strive to make things happen quickly and efficiently.
• Proactive
• The ability to anticipate, plan and prepare for what lies ahead. You act rather than react to potential situations.
• Problem Solver
• You work to tackle tough problems with complex solutions.
• Strategic
• You observe, reflect and analyze processes to make more informed decisions.

Benefits

• ### Healthcare
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.
• ### 401(k)/Retirement Plans
• Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.
• ### Professional Development
• We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs.
• ### Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.
• ### Paid Time Off
• We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.
• ### Flex-time
• Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.