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Overview

As a Flight Line Test Mechanic C-130 at Lockheed Martin, you will be responsible for servicing and troubleshooting complex aircraft systems, ensuring airworthiness and compliance with design specifications. The company emphasizes a culture that empowers employees to innovate and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Responsibilities

  • Make changes and replacements to hydraulic, plumbing, and rigging systems, fuel and oil units, power plants, etc.
  • Make permissible adjustments to ship's systems to meet flight line requirements.
  • Mock-up, fabricate, and install new parts, structures, and systems.
  • Perform final flight servicing, troubleshooting, and operational checkout of complex aircraft.
  • Correct all malfunctions and defects revealed on the ground and/or in flight.
  • Utilize computerized equipment to troubleshoot complex systems.

Requirements

  • Four (4) years’ experience in Flight Line Aircraft systems maintenance within the past twelve (12) years.
  • Experience must include actual flight line work on live Aircraft Systems.
  • Aircraft technical school training may offset a portion of the experience requirement.
  • A two (2) year Associate Degree in Aviation Maintenance Technology may substitute for one (1) year of experience.
  • Each year of Active Reserve/National Guard Aircraft Systems Maintenance duty may substitute for two (2) months of experience.
  • Graduates of a certified Aircraft Systems Mechanic Apprenticeship Program within the last six (6) months may qualify.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Position located at a facility that requires special access.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Marietta, GA

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 60% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA — toward the top of a $24–$40/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 85% 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.

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We're tracking 23 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 17 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 407 other active welding openings from 255 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.

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