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Overview

As a Fabrication-Heat Treat Mechanic at Lockheed Martin, you will be responsible for heat treating and age hardening steel and aluminum production parts. The role requires expertise in determining heat treat processes and operating equipment to ensure quality production.

Responsibilities

  • Heat treating production steel and aluminum parts, tooling parts, dies and stock made from steel or steel alloys.
  • Operating hand or power equipment to change furnace or bath and quenching, and checking and maintaining heat treat solutions.
  • Operating age hardening ovens by checking orders for correct material and setting controls for proper heat and time according to specifications.
  • Recording treatment method for future reference and collaborating with authorized personnel as required.
  • Selecting and placing shims to correct out of tolerance conditions from reference tables and written procedures.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience providing knowledge of working on parts requiring exacting tolerances.
  • Experience with aircraft sheet metal hand finishing, bending, and forming.
  • Ability to run, program, and set up numerically controlled machines for metal shaping.
  • Documented heat treat experience with familiarity of processes such as annealing, normalizing, and quenching.
  • Completion of a high-quality industrial-based machine shop training program would offset six months of the four-year requirement.
  • Ability to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints and understand heat treat specifications.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
  • Flexible scheduling options are available.

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 67% above the $25/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA — toward the top of a $24–$48/hr middle band drawn from 11 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 73% 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 20 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 16 different employers. 8 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 444 other active welding openings from 282 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 3 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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