Inspector Structures Paint

About the role

The Aircraft Structural & Functional Inspector ensures all aircraft components meet rigorous workmanship, alignment, and design specifications from assembly through final checkout.

Responsibilities

• Inspect structural, electrical, plumbing, and hydraulic assemblies (including wing-to-wing, power-plant-to-wing, fuselage sections, and empennage).
• Verify jig loading, framing, skinning, riveting, spot-welding, and fastener integrity.
• Review sealing operations on new, stripped, or modified integral wing tanks for completeness, foreign-matter exclusion, and seal capability.
• Oversee final washing, priming, painting, and internal trimming to confirm compliance with engineering prints and process data.
• Conduct functional system hookups, operational tests, and compartment-by-compartment shakedowns for alignment, clearance, torque, and tension.
• Perform simulated-flight operational checkout to ensure adherence to latest design changes and customer requirements.
• Approve or reject items with proper documentation per Company policy and the Quality-Control Manual.

Requirements

• Current inspection certifications and the ability to read engineering drawings and inspection specifications.
• Four years of experience, including any combination of:
  • Military aircraft structures quality assurance experience.
  • Aircraft assembly, structures, electrical installation, or hydraulics installation experience.
• One-year experience in application of aircraft finishes may offset one year of the four-year requirement.
• Completion of the LMASC Chattahoochee Technical Institute Production Inspection Training Course of 300-400 hours may offset one year of the four-year requirement.
• Passing score of the ASQ Certified Inspector examination may offset two years of the four-year requirement.
• Must successfully pass the Lockheed Martin facilitated entrance Q&MS Inspection examination prior to employment.
• Must demonstrate ability to enter and satisfy associated requirements within the Human Factors Assessment prior to employment.

Desired Skills

• Previous aircraft inspection experience.

Pay

$27.77 - $52.76 per hour.

Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year based on performance metrics.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
• 401(k) match.
• Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Education Assistance.
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

Additional specific benefits are dependent upon the business unit and the collective-bargaining agreement.

For Washington state applicants only: Represented full-time employees accrue 6.67 hours of vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.