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Overview

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) is seeking a Sr Technician to join the Launchers Engineering team in Moorestown, NJ, supporting military missile launching systems. The role involves working on prototype, low-rate production, and fielded systems, focusing on system integration and test execution.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and repair electronics and mechanical equipment in support of test activities.
  • Perform general maintenance and upkeep of the test/laboratory environment.
  • Build instrumentation support equipment for test events.
  • Provide maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations.
  • Support up to 25% travel to customer locations for field testing.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of related experience and a High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience with electrical and mechanical manufacturing tools and practices.
  • Must be able to support moderate domestic travel and, on occasion, international travel.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with mechanical/electrical tooling and lab equipment.
  • Prior experience building and troubleshooting electrical and mechanical assemblies.
  • Prior professional experience with missile launching systems.
  • Good communication skills and ability to work with minimal day-to-day supervision.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This is a hybrid position based in Moorestown, NJ.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Moorestown, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $28–$38/hr across 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 42% 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 Moorestown, NJ

Moorestown, NJ currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 183 other active welding openings from 128 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Moorestown, or widen the search to New Jersey.

Lockheed Martin currently has 6 other openings live in New Jersey, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valcor Engineering Corporation (7), Lockheed Martin (6), and DC Fabricators (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New Jersey, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Moorestown at $45/hr, Newark at $33/hr, and Cherry Hill at $31/hr. Moorestown is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Technician Sr - Launchers (N2) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.