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Overview

As an Assembly Worker Structures Sr - C130, you will be responsible for laying out and locating structural components in production assemblies, performing complex structural rework, and fabricating detail parts. Lockheed Martin is committed to supporting work-life balance and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Responsibilities

  • Work on structural changes that materially alter previous assembly references and practices.
  • Perform trimming, reforming, and altering parts and structures as required.
  • Fabricate detail parts such as shims, splices, gussets, angles, brackets, doublers, stiffeners, and patches.
  • Perform portable milling operations on wing and center section attaching joints.
  • Improve shop aids to facilitate assembly and installation as required.

Requirements

  • Minimum four years of experience as an Aircraft Structural Assembly Worker.
  • Must have satisfactory performance in structures assembly as well as hydraulic/plumbing and/or controls.
  • Ability to work under pressurized conditions or in confined areas.
  • Pressurizer certification will be required.
  • Attend skills training and pass a performance demonstration test.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Must be a U.S. citizen.
  • Position located at a facility that requires special access.

Benefits

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

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting comes in about 24% below the $42/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA, where the middle half runs $30–$59/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 31% 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 Marietta, GA

We're tracking 28 other active welding openings in Marietta, GA right now, from 15 different employers. 17 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 338 other active welding openings from 194 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 11 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 Lockheed Martin (11), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), and Classic Collision (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 Marietta at $42/hr, Forest Park at $39/hr, and Atlanta at $28/hr. Marietta is among them.

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