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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 maintaining 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.
  • Recording treatment method for future reference and collaborating with authorized personnel as required.
  • Selecting and placing shims to correct out of tolerance conditions.

Requirements

  • Four years of experience with 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.
  • Documented heat treat experience with familiarity of processes such as annealing and quenching.
  • Completion of a high-quality industrial-based machine shop training program.
  • Ability to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Must be a U.S. citizen due to special access requirements.
  • 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 lands within a few percent of the $42/hr median for welding jobs in Marietta, GA, whose middle half runs $30–$59/hr across 16 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

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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