Job Description

Overview

The Inspector Structures Paint position involves inspecting various assemblies and components of airplanes to ensure workmanship and conformance to requirements, including final assembly and operational checkout prior to flight. The role is critical in maintaining quality standards in the aerospace industry.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect structural, electrical, and plumbing assemblies for workmanship and conformance to requirements.
  • Conduct final assembly and mating of airplane structural components.
  • Perform shakedown and operational checkout of completed airplane assemblies.
  • Inspect sealing operations on integral wing tanks for conformance to designs and specifications.
  • Approve final operational checkout of completed airplanes under simulated flight conditions.
  • Inspect jig loading, framing, skinning, riveting, and out-of-jig shakedown of structural assemblies.
  • Check assemblies for alignment, contour, material, finish, and shortages.
  • Inspect functional installations for workmanship, clearance, tension, and conformance.
  • Inspect bonding and pressure testing operations.
  • Inspect spot-welded parts for workmanship and correct assembly.
  • Stamp or approve acceptable items and prepare documentation for unacceptable items.
  • Inspect aircraft during and after priming and final painting operations.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience in military aircraft structures quality assurance, aircraft assembly, or related fields.
  • One year of experience in application of aircraft finishes may offset one year of the four-year requirement.
  • Completion of the LMASC Chattahoochee Technical Institute Production Inspection Training Course may offset one year of the four-year requirement.
  • Passing score of the ASQ Certified Inspector examination may offset two years of the four-year requirement.
  • Must pass the Lockheed Martin facilitated entrance Q&MS Inspection examination prior to employment.
  • Must demonstrate ability to satisfy associated requirements within the Human Factors Assessment prior to employment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
  • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Marietta, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 61% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA — toward the top of a $24–$35/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Marietta, GA

We're tracking 20 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 16 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 392 other active welding openings from 246 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Marietta, or widen the search to Georgia.

Lockheed Martin currently has 4 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC (8), Mullins Mechanical (6), and Yancey Bros. Co. (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Atlanta at $29/hr, Lithia Springs at $29/hr, and Marietta at $25/hr. Marietta is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Inspector Structures Paint figures were last recalculated when this page was built.