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Aircraft Assembler - 1st Shift

Pinellas Park, Florida

Pinellas Park, Florida

Job Responsibilities

Job ID: 685230BR Date posted: Jan. 22, 2025
Description:Job Description :
At Lockheed Martin, you’ll have the chance to work on impactful projects that shape the future of aerospace. We are dedicated to your growth, offering training and development opportunities to help you advance your career. Become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence, and make a meaningful contribution to the defense and aerospace industries.
At Lockheed Martin, we provide the training, tools, and resources you need to succeed. You’ll have the opportunity to engage in work that makes a significant impact on the world.

What You Will Be Doing
Join our Assembly Team in beautiful Pinellas Park, Florida as an Aircraft Assembler, where you'll play a crucial role in the higher-level assembly of the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft. As an Aircraft Assembler, you will perform a variety of operations to manufacture, assemble, and refurbish aircraft parts and structures, ensuring a defect-free product.
Key Responsibilities:
• Interpret blueprints and work instructions to accurately assemble components.
• Utilize precision measuring equipment to verify dimensions with tolerances up to .001.
• Perform hand drilling and installation of aircraft-specific fasteners.
• Complete part-fitting operations, including minor filing, sawing, burring, crimping, trimming, framing, drilling, reaming, riveting, countersinking, and cold working.
• Modify incomplete and complete assemblies to incorporate changes and perform necessary repairs.
• Work collaboratively with a team to meet production timelines and support subsequent assembly operations.
• Conduct corrosion inspections and repairs as per engineering requirements.
• Monitor and verify quality standards, developing corrective actions as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What’s In It For You
We offer flexible work schedules, comprehensive benefits, investing in your future, and security. Our work environment is very family-oriented, with a 33% prior military presence. we offer the tools needed for your role and on-site training. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

We value integrity, attention to detail, and a strong work ethic. You may be someone who prioritizes open and respectful communication with team members, fostering a culture of trust and transparency in the workplace. While you work well independently, you also value teamwork and communicate effectively with colleagues to achieve common goals, even in fast-moving environments.
Basic Qualifications:
1-2 years of knowledge or experience in assembly, structures, sheet metal or manufacturing.

High School Diploma or GED equivalent.

Must have experience using hand tools (i.e. torque wrench, drills and inspection tools, riveting tools, and various other hand tools).

Ability to read and interpret assembly Drawings or Instructions.
Desired Skills:
Experience in structures, sheet metal, or manufacturing

Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License

F-35, F-16, or C-130 specific experience
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/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: Hourly/Non-Exempt
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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About

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

Mission-Focused Innovation: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can solve the world's most complex challenges for our customers.

Foundational Values: Our culture of performance excellence, ethics, teamwork and inclusion is embedded in everything we do.

Diverse Career Opportunities with Meaningful Work: Grow your career and skills for life. Our technology-driven learning platforms and programs enable your development and agility.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Our flexible schedules, competitive pay and comprehensive benefits enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work.

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.

Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

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

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Qualifications

See what it takes to be a successful Lockheed Martin employee.

  • 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.

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“Before I came to Lockheed Martin, I never thought I’d get these opportunities. The benefits available and the company’s value culture make it an incredibly supportive place to work, and I’m grateful to work somewhere that wants me to succeed. I hope to have a long career here making an impact, and I know I’ll be supported in doing that every step of the way.”

Ryan J., Enterprise Operations

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.

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