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Job Description

Overview

As a Carpenter A for the Maintenance Team at Lockheed Martin, you will execute finish carpentry projects from concept to completion, ensuring high-quality solutions that meet customer specifications and safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Layout, alter, construct, and repair wooden structures, partitions, cabinets, doors, windows, and furniture.
  • Read and interpret blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions to create accurate work plans.
  • Select materials, develop sketches, and devise fixtures or work-holding methods for large-volume orders.
  • Operate shaper and other woodworking tools safely and efficiently.
  • Maintain a clean, organized work area and ensure quality standards are met.

Requirements

  • Ability to craft cabinets and customer requests as necessary from wood.
  • Ability to read and interpret a tape measure and blueprints.
  • Knowledge of door mechanisms, locks, and cabinetry.
  • Versed in using mechanical saws, drills, planers, joiners, radial saws, and hand power equipment.
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • At least two years of trades training.
  • Experience operating a forklift.
  • At least three years of formal carpentry experience.
  • At least three years of related production warehouse and construction experience.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen due to special access.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This position is in Dallas.
  • Candidates must be able to work 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 'D' weekend shift according to the collective bargaining agreement.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $39/hr, this posting sits about 16% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs in Grand Prairie, TX — toward the top of a $28–$39/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 77% 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 Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 30 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 18 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,132 other active welding openings from 498 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Lockheed Martin currently has 4 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (30), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arlington at $40/hr, Dallas at $39/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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