Fabrication-Heat Treat Operator

Basic Qualifications

• Four years experience providing knowledge of:
  • Working on parts requiring exacting tolerances
  • Determining trim lines from blueprints or templates
  • Aircraft sheet metal hand finishing
  • Bending, forming, using routers, circular saws, power brakes to form, pierce, contour, or straighten metal parts
  • Using power rolls to contour sheet metal extrusions, and structural tubing
  • Running, programming, and setting up numerically controlled brakes, water jets, slip roll, rotary shapers, hydro press, punch press to perform operations cutting, shaping, and drilling flat and formed sheet metal and extrusion stock
  • Making minor adjustments when machines perform improperly
  • Documented heat treat experience with familiarity of processes such as annealing, normalizing, quenching, and check and straightening
  • Completion of a high-quality industrial-based machine shop training program which is typically 800-1600 training hours in duration
• Ability to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints and understand heat treat specifications and nomenclature

Job Description

You will be the Fabrication-Heat Treat Mechanic for the team responsible for heat treating and age hardening and testing of steel, and aluminum production parts and their alloys, rivets, steel tooling parts, and stock made from steel or steel alloys.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Fabrication-Heat Treat Mechanic, you will be responsible for:

• Determining the heat treat process and quenching required to obtain results
• Determining proper timing and temperature of ovens, salt baths according to material composition, shape, size, and thickness
• 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 preceding heat treat, and setting controls for proper heat and time according to established specifications
• Selecting and placing shims to correct out of tolerance conditions from reference tables and written procedures

What’s In It For You

We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and overall well-being, offering flexible scheduling options. Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate will be a highly skilled and experienced heat treat mechanic with a strong knowledge of heat treating methods and processes and aircraft sheet metal hand finishing, bending, or forming. You will have excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints, and understand heat treat specifications and nomenclature.

Further Information About This Opportunity

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired Skills

• Aircraft related experience
• Other important information

Further Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match.

Additional Information

Ability to work remotely
Onsite
Full-time