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Job Description

Overview

The Sheet Metal Mechanic position requires candidates to have experience or training in commercial or industrial sheet metal work, with a focus on working from written instructions and blueprints. Lockheed Martin emphasizes the importance of taking care of their employees and offers a Total Rewards program to support professional and personal growth.

Requirements

  • Three years experience in commercial or industrial sheet metal work
  • Completion of approved apprenticeship program in manufacturing and installation of sheet metal components of three or more years duration
  • Ability to work from written instructions and detail blueprints
  • Ability to use shop math
  • Ability to layout and fabricate square to round and transition configurations using a variety of shop tools and equipment

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 depending on the position
  • Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays

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 44% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA — toward the top of a $28–$44/hr middle band drawn from 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% 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 22 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 17 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 363 other active welding openings from 212 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 2 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 Classic Collision (10), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (9), and JCB North America (9). 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 $36/hr, Atlanta at $31/hr, and Marietta at $29/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. Sheet Metal Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.