Aircraft Production Assembler
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Job overview
Lockheed Martin is hiring an Aircraft Production Assembler. The Aircraft Production Assembler loads, aligns, and clamps parts and sub-assemblies into jigs, drilling holes and trimming skins and parts. This role involves fabricating and installing shims, stiffeners, and doublers, as well as performing various operations like reaming, countersinking, bolting, and applying sealants and adhesives.
Key focus areas include Load, align, and clamp parts and sub-assemblies into jigs, Drill holes using drill plates, jig details, templates, or pilot holes, and Trim skins and parts using jig detail scribe bars or reverse-scribing trim lines.
Successful candidates bring 12 Months Production Assembly-Type Work Experience, 12 Months Mechanical Experience, and Ability To Work Shift Schedule 12:00 Noon - 10:30 P.M.. Important skills include Interpreting Engineering Drawings, Read Assembly Blueprints, Basic Computer Skills, Follow Electronic Work Instructions, Follow Specifications, and Familiarity With Various Hand Tools. Preferred (not required): Riveting, Aircraft Fastener Installations, Sheet Metal Skills, and Airframe Assembly Experience.
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Full job description
Description: Load, align, and clamp parts and sub-assemblies into jigs in established sequences using jig locator's and coordinated pilot holes. Drill holes using drill plates, jig details, templates, or through pilot holes. Trim skins and parts using jig detail scribe bars or after reverse-scribing trim lines from adjacent skins. Lay out fastener-hole pattern spacing and edge distance, trim lines, and location of components to standard and readily-maintained tolerances by direct measurement from known and available physical reference points.
Fabricate and install shims, stiffeners, doublers, etc. Perform operations such as reaming, countersinking, portable milling and routing, bolting, torquing, safety wiring, cutting, filing, fitting, burring, touching-up paint, applying sealants and adhesives, electrical bonding, and spotfacing.
Basic Qualifications:
Basic knowledge of interpreting engineering drawings. Ability to read assembly blueprints in order to perform work described.
Basic computer skills along with the ability to follow electronic work instructions and specifications.
Requires twelve months previous experience in production assembly-type work or mechanical experience.
Familiarity with various hand tools.
Ability to work shift schedule - 12:00 noon - 10:30 p.m
Desired Skills:
Experience with riveting and various aircraft fastener installations.
Sheet metal skills.
*Airframe assembly experience.
*Airframe & Powerplant license (A&P)
Mechanical or Machinist background
Clearance Level: None
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: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
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: Hourly/Non-Exempt
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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