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Overview

The Inspector Structures Paint position involves inspecting various assemblies and components of aircraft to ensure workmanship and conformance to specifications. The role requires current inspection certifications and entails responsibilities such as final assembly inspections, operational checkouts, and documentation of unacceptable items.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect structural, electrical, and plumbing assemblies for workmanship and conformance to requirements.
  • Conduct final assembly and mating inspections of airplane structural components.
  • Inspect installations of functional units and systems, including operational tests.
  • Perform shakedown and operational checkouts of completed airplanes before flight line transfer.
  • Inspect sealing operations on integral wing tanks for conformance to designs and specifications.
  • Inspect final washing, priming, painting, and internal trimming operations on aircraft.
  • Inspect alignment, attachments, workmanship, and completeness of airplane components.
  • Inspect functional installations for workmanship, clearance, tension, and conformance.
  • Conduct inspections of jig loading, framing, skinning, and riveting of structural assemblies.
  • Inspect spot-welded parts for workmanship and correct assembly.
  • Stamp or approve acceptable items and prepare documentation for unacceptable items.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience in military aircraft structures quality assurance, aircraft assembly, or installations.
  • One year of experience in application of aircraft finishes may offset one year of experience.
  • Completion of the LMASC Chattahoochee Technical Institute Production Inspection Training Course may offset one year of experience.
  • Passing score of the ASQ Certified Inspector examination may offset two years of experience.
  • Must pass the Lockheed Martin facilitated entrance Q&MS Inspection examination.
  • Ability to satisfy associated requirements within the Human Factors Assessment.

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.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $40/hr, this posting sits about 44% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Georgia — toward the top of a $23–$36/hr middle band drawn from 124 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 81% 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 17 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 14 different employers. 7 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 371 other active welding openings from 218 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 (12), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (11), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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 $34/hr, Kennesaw at $32/hr, and Atlanta at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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