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Job Description

Overview

Lockheed Martin is seeking a Mechanical Engineering college new hire to support the Grand Prairie, TX site of Missiles and Fire Control (MFC). The successful candidate must demonstrate highly innovative approaches to resolve production and design issues.

Responsibilities

  • Developing and generating CREO layouts and detailed drawings for ICDs, components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and integration test articles
  • Building BOMs, creating parts, assemblies, and design documentation within Windchill PLM
  • Interacting with the IPT team, suppliers, GSC, electronic packaging, optics, and structural/thermal/material analysts to ensure design excellence
  • Contributing to drawing releases, responding to CRs, generating CNs, and supporting change boards and design reviews
  • Performing design trade studies to evaluate cost, weight, performance, and structural/thermal benefits

Requirements

  • Pursuing a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering or a similar degree
  • Proficiency in CAD design tools, such as PTC Creo, 3DX/CATIA, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, etc.
  • Demonstrated successful group collaboration and/or individual project work, ideally in a mechanics or design area
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex mechanical issues

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Location: Grand Prairie, TX
  • Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 38% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Grand Prairie, TX — toward the top of a $28–$34/hr middle band drawn from 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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 Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 38 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 18 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,287 other active welding openings from 583 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Lockheed Martin currently has 2 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (35), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (25), and Zachry Group (22). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Abernathy at $45/hr, Arlington at $40/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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