A career with Lockheed Martin means not only a competitive salary and benefits package, but also includes inspiring career development opportunities, a real commitment to work/life balance and a working environment that truly supports your ability to excel. In addition to our corporate office in Central London, our four different business areas operate across 16 key sites across the UK from Cornwall in the south west of England to Glasgow in the west of Scotland.
We recognise that our success as a business depends entirely on the talent, skills and expertise of our people and their ability to function as a tightly integrated team. We are at the forefront of innovation and engineering performance is at the centre of everything we do.
Experienced Hires
Engineering excellence lies at the heart of Lockheed Martin and as the company looks to grow its UK business over the next several years there are exciting opportunities to join its Experienced and Talented Workforce across a variety of different business functions and disciplines. Whatever your direction, Lockheed Martin UK can help your career development with competitive salaries and benefits, flexible schedules and more.
How to Apply for Our Experienced Hire Positions
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In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefit package designed to meet your lifestyle needs:
Annual leave – We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Flexible working – 9/75 Working Pattern
Recognition schemes
Generous pension scheme
Salary sacrifice scheme
Private Medical Cover
Employee Life Assurance
Employee Discount scheme – Including an attractive range of retail, holiday and leisure discounts
Wellbeing support – includes Occupational Health service, Employee Assistance programme and Flu vaccinations
Additional voluntary benefits available to support you and your family
Lockheed Martin: Early Careers in the UK
Apprentices
An apprentice at Lockheed Martin UK will get hands-on experience at an innovative company that is driven by a sense of purpose and a passion for innovation to shape the future and solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Working as part of a dynamic team, the focus is on providing smart solutions whilst creatively solving problems for our customers
Employees from a number of Lockheed Martin business areas provide guidance, technical knowledge and ongoing support for apprentices while they transition into the workplace. Our apprentice programme helps us attract and secure the workforce of tomorrow and is an important element of ensuring specialised skills and innovative capabilities are retained for the future.
How to Apply for an Apprenticeship
We are looking for people who are keen to learn with an aspiration to work for Lockheed Martin. When applying for an Apprenticeship you will have to meet the minimum educational requirements of the course which will be detailed in the advert.
Review our Apprenticeship opportunities by searching for Apprenticeship positions here.
Upload your C.V and complete the required Coversheet and submit.
Your application is then assessed against academic criteria and checked to make sure it contains all required information.
If your application is then selected and successful, you will be invited to an assessment day or interview at one of our UK facilities.
The assessment day may include presentations from the business, interviews, tours, group activities and presenting.
If selected from the assessment day you will receive a written offer to join the Lockheed Martin team and your on boarding process will start from here.
To help keep you feel connected we will regularly update you with current early careers activities between the offer and your start date
Please note that the majority of the positions posted require HM Government security clearance, please refer to individual job specifications for requirements. In order to apply for a position requiring security clearance the applicant must meet the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting criteria. Details of the criteria can be found on the MOD website.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefit package designed to meet your lifestyle needs:
Annual leave – We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Flexible working – 9/75 Working Pattern
Recognition schemes
Generous pension scheme
Salary sacrifice scheme
Private Medical Cover
Employee Life Assurance
Employee Discount scheme – Including an attractive range of retail, holiday and leisure discounts
Wellbeing support – includes Occupational Health service, Employee Assistance programme and Flu vaccinations
Additional voluntary benefits available to support you and your family
Graduate Programme
Joining us as a Graduate you will get to be part of a great team working on exciting projects making a real difference from day one. You along with rest of your Early Careers cohort will follow our two-year carefully planned Graduate Programme cycle. When we see someone with real talent we move quickly to determine how you can shape your future with us and us with you.
How to Apply for Our Graduate positions
We are looking for people who have a degree in the following areas: mathematics, physics, computer science, computer and information security, cyber security, systems engineering, software engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, information technology, finance or business studies.
Review our graduate opportunities by searching for graduate positions here.
Upload your C.V. and complete the required Coversheet and submit.
Your application is then assessed against academic criteria and checked to make sure it contains all required information.
If your application is then selected and successful, you will be invited to an assessment day or interview at one of our UK facilities.
The assessment day may include presentations from the business, interviews, tours, group activities and presenting.
If selected from the assessment day you will receive a written offer to join the Lockheed Martin team and your on boarding process will start from here.
To help keep you connected we will regularly update you with current early careers activities between your offer and your start date.
Please note that the majority of the positions posted require HM Government security clearance, please refer to individual job specifications for requirements. In order to apply for a position requiring security clearance the applicant must meet the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting criteria. Details of the criteria can be found on the MOD Website.
IN ADDITION TO A COMPETITIVE SALARY, WE OFFER A GENEROUS BENEFIT PACKAGE DESIGNED TO MEET YOUR LIFESTYLE NEEDS:
Annual leave – We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Flexible working – 9/75 Working Pattern
Recognition schemes
Generous pension scheme
Salary sacrifice scheme
Private Medical Cover
Employee Life Assurance
Employee Discount scheme – Including an attractive range of retail, holiday and leisure discounts
Wellbeing support – includes Occupational Health service, Employee Assistance programme and Flu vaccinations
Additional voluntary benefits available to support you and your family
£1,000 sign on bonus
£1,000 bonus after completion of your first year
Placements
We offer two types of Placements:
Summer placement – for which applicants need to be at university studying a relevant degree
One-year placement – for which applicants need to be studying a Sandwich degree course (with a year at work between university years)
Upon joining us as a Placement Student you will get to be part of a great team working on exciting projects making a real difference from day one. Your programme will include the below.
How to Apply for Our Placement positions
We are looking for people who are currently studying a degree for the Summer Placements or studying a sandwich degree for the one-year placements in the following disciplines: mathematics, physics, computer science, computer and information security, cyber security, systems engineering, software engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, information technology, marketing, finance or business studies.
Review our Placement opportunities by searching for Placement positions here.
Upload your C.V and complete the required Coversheet and submit.
Your application is then assessed against academic criteria and checked to make sure it contains all required information.
If your application is then selected and successful, you will be invited to an assessment day or interview at one of our UK facilities.
The assessment day may include presentations from the business, interviews, tours, group activities and presenting.
If selected from the assessment day you will receive a written offer to join the Lockheed Martin team and your on boarding process will start from here.
To help keep you feel connected we will regularly update you with current early careers activities between the offer and your start date.
Please note that the majority of the positions posted require HM Government security clearance, please refer to individual job specifications for requirements. In order to apply for a position requiring security clearance the applicant must meet the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting criteria. Details of the criteria can be found on the MOD website.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefit package designed to meet your lifestyle needs:
Annual leave – We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Flexible working – 9/75 Working Pattern
Recognition schemes
Generous pension scheme
Salary sacrifice scheme
Private Medical Cover
Employee Life Assurance
Employee Discount scheme – Including an attractive range of retail, holiday and leisure discounts
Wellbeing support – includes Occupational Health service, Employee Assistance programme and Flu vaccinations
Additional voluntary benefits available to support you and your family
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