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Overview

The Functional Test Equipment Builder A is responsible for building, servicing, and repairing Mobile Aircraft Support Equipment (MASE) and functional test equipment used in testing aircraft systems. This role requires collaboration with engineering personnel and involves diagnosing and maintaining various mechanical and electronic components.

Responsibilities

  • Build, check-out, service, inspect, maintain, diagnose, and repair Mobile Aircraft Support Equipment (MASE).
  • Fabricate and assemble functional-production test equipment for testing major aircraft systems.
  • Specialize in building or maintaining hydraulic-pneumatic and mechanical test equipment or electrical and electronic equipment.
  • Coordinate efforts of other test equipment builders on specific projects.
  • Work with design, functional test, and product engineering personnel to identify errors and suggest improvements.
  • Determine fabrication order and sequence for components.
  • Initiate material requisitions and work orders for parts fabrication.
  • Prepare sketches and instructions, and maintain work follow-ups.
  • Test, diagnose, repair, service, and inspect MASE equipment.
  • Use data systems to document and analyze equipment maintenance actions.

Requirements

  • Minimum of two years experience as a machinist (journeyman level) and two years experience in fabrication and/or repair of industrial electrical control circuits.
  • Alternatively, four years of verifiable experience maintaining AGE/GSE equipment.
  • Experience must be industrial-based on control circuits.

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 $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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