Aircraft Structural Assembler
Job Summary
Lockheed Martin invites skilled professionals to join its distinguished team as an Aircraft Structural Assembler. This pivotal role involves the precision assembly and fabrication of critical aircraft structures, contributing directly to the integrity and performance of advanced aerospace platforms. The successful candidate will apply their expertise in a dynamic, mission-driven environment, ensuring adherence to the highest standards of quality and safety.
Key Responsibilities
The Aircraft Structural Assembler is responsible for building and mating intricate aircraft structures, utilizing established tooling and primary locations. This includes laying out and precisely locating rivet, bolt, and fastener hole patterns, as well as trim lines, using simple measurements from established points. The role requires working assemblies in proper sequence, loading jigs, and performing necessary work or rework to complete assemblies both in and out of the jig.
Core duties encompass:
- Performing minor reforming of parts to correct contours, crimping, trimming, and filing for optimal fit.
- Executing framing, skinning, and riveting operations, along with attaching fittings and installations to achieve finished assemblies.
- Drilling and reaming to specified tolerances, and milling rivets as required.
- Improvising shop aids to facilitate efficient assembly and installation processes.
- Conducting routine and repetitive installation of electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or mechanical units, parts, and equipment, where locations are guided by pilot holes, back drilling, templates, or pre-drilled patterns.
- Torquing and safing bolts, and installing incidental plumbing, electrical rigging, or other functional items as dictated by assembly sequence.
Specific installation tasks include:
- Attaching braces, brackets, platenuts, and clips for secure fastening and support.
- Installing conduit, junction boxes, instrument panels, and pre-assembled wire harnesses or individual wires, involving cutting, lugging, forming, and tying (excluding soldering).
- Fitting tubing for hydraulic, plumbing, and air conditioning systems.
- Mounting cables, drums, pulley assemblies, push-pull rods, and linkage.
- Integrating mechanical units such as tracks, hinges, up-locks, and down-locks.
- Applying sealing compounds, insulation, rubber, felt, gaskets, and other materials to aircraft parts.
- Installing floor supports, floorboards, stands, and similar structural components.
- Performing bonding procedures (excluding bonding checking operations).
- Integrating miscellaneous items such as fuel and oil tanks, cabinets, partitions, seats, metal molding, aircraft hardware, oxygen bottles, water breakers, alcohol units, and storage equipment.
Additionally, the Assembler disassembles and reassembles structures and installations, ensuring components are returned to their original positions or established locations. They will fabricate structural items like clips, angles, gussets, and patches, applying elementary knowledge of aircraft assembly practices and material characteristics. The role requires proficient use of jigs, fixtures, rivet upsetting and assembly equipment, hand tools, and applicable measuring devices. Interpreting detail, assembly, and installation blueprints or other authorized documents, along with applying arithmetic through decimals and fractions, is essential. The Assembler must consistently work to the required tolerances and be capable of making repairs according to authorized manuals.
Basic Qualifications
Candidates must possess either:
- Two years of demonstrable experience in aircraft sheet metal assembly, specifically involving riveted structures and the installation of functional and/or electrical components. This experience should include the ability to drill and rivet thin sheet metal and to proficiently read and utilize aircraft detail and assembly blueprints.
- OR
- A completed Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) License, acquired through an accredited course of study from a recognized aeronautical technical institution such as Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, Spartan School of Aeronautics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, or Aviation Institute of Maintenance of Duluth.
Upon commencement of employment, all selected candidates will be required to attend a skills training program and successfully pass a performance demonstration test upon its completion.
Desired Skills
- Proven structural assembly experience within the Aerospace and Defense sector.
- Basic to advanced proficiency in blueprint reading.
- Experience with the use of drill blocks.
- Demonstrated ability to drill holes through thick materials.
About Lockheed Martin
Join Lockheed Martin, a leading technology innovation company, where employees are empowered to tackle the world's most challenging missions. Our customers demand extraordinary courage, resilience, and precision, and our vast global team is dedicated to delivering proven performance. Lockheed Martin is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a supportive work environment with a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility, complementing our generous Paid Time Off benefits. This is an onsite, full-time position at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Application Information
Qualified candidates are encouraged to express interest in this position, which may also lead to consideration for other career opportunities aligning with similar skills and requirements. The application window will close in 90 days, with optimal consideration typically given to applications submitted within 5 to 30 days of the requisition posting date.