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Overview

As a Tooling Technician at RTX, you will support the Mobile Repair Team and engine repair station operations by ensuring tooling and support equipment remains safe and mission ready. This role involves inspecting, maintaining, troubleshooting, and refurbishing engine tooling and support equipment, while collaborating closely with various teams to meet customer commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Perform inspections, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, refurbishment, and approved modifications on engine tooling and support equipment.
  • Support the Mobile Repair Team and repair station by ensuring that tooling is available, serviceable, and ready for deployment.
  • Receive, inspect, identify, issue, package, ship, receive, and store tooling while maintaining inventory accuracy and traceability.
  • Support calibration activities, including preparation, receipt, processing, and documentation of calibrated tooling.
  • Evaluate tooling for serviceability and identify tooling requiring repair, calibration, quarantine, or disposition.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, serialized tooling records, and inventory transactions within company systems.
  • Assist with investigations involving damaged, lost, or nonconforming tooling and support corrective actions.
  • Maintain tooling storage areas in accordance with safety, quality, and repair station requirements.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance tooling reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.
  • Organize tooling by engine model and create inventory sheets.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 2 years of mechanical, maintenance, tooling, manufacturing, or aerospace experience.
  • Prior experience in an aerospace engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) environment or Part 145 Repair Station.
  • Prior experience with calibration processes and serialized tooling management.
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals, work instructions, and service bulletins.
  • FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) Certificate.
  • Nondestructive Testing (NDT) certification or willingness to obtain qualifications.
  • Prior experience with SAP or other ERP and inventory management systems.
  • Understanding of quality management systems and continuous improvement principles.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position is classified as Onsite.
  • The salary range for this role is 41,400 USD - 72,600 USD.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA, where the middle half runs $28–$49/hr across 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 24% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Atlanta, GA

We're tracking 95 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 75 different employers. 42 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 407 other active welding openings from 254 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.

The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Marathon (10), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7), and Mullins Mechanical (6). 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 Forest Park at $39/hr, Marietta at $32/hr, and Atlanta at $31/hr. Atlanta is among them.

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