Operations Readiness & Data Scientist- Level 3 at Lockheed Martin
Marietta, GA
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Jul 10, 2026
Marietta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on owning and evolving an internal readiness tracking tool ("Are We Ready") within a production engineering organization, including building out dashboards, KPIs, and metrics that span multiple engineering disciplines. The work involves collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, documenting processes, and briefing senior leaders. It suits an experienced data scientist with a background in operations or manufacturing environments who can independently drive analytics projects from scoping through deployment.
Senior level · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 8,500–30,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job posting explicitly states this is an onsite role in Marietta, GA ('We work full time on site, this is not a remote / telecommuting position'). The caller has overridden this and declared the role fully remote; remote=true and no metro have been set per that instruction.
The clearance field is set to None per the posting's own 'Clearance Level: None' statement. An active DoD Secret clearance appears only under Desired Skills as a nice-to-have, not a hard gate.
The role is classified as 15-2051 (Data Scientists) but has a meaningful analytics/BI/reporting flavor — building dashboards, KPI tracking, and metrics — that could also fit 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts). Medium confidence reflects this genuine ambiguity.
'Data science, analysis, modeling, and/or visualization' is listed as a single compound requirement in Basic Qualifications; the visualization examples (Tableau, Power BI) are captured as one skill with an alternative per the interchangeable-options rule.
Experience in Operations-related business functions (Prod Ops, Production Engineering, Quality, PP&C, GSC, Engineering) is a hard-gated requirement but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per schema rules.
Master's degree appears only under Desired Skills and is therefore preferred, not a hard requirement; the degree requirement reflects only the hard-required Bachelor's.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data analysis, dashboard development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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