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Lockheed Martin

Fabrication-Heat Treat Mechanic

Marietta, GA

Description:This position includes merged job functions: Heat
Treater, Rotary Shaper Operator A, and Fabrication Parts Former.

Occupational Summary - Heat Treater
This occupation requires the heat treating and age hardening and testing of steel, and aluminum production parts and their alloys, rivets, steel tooling parts and stock by such processes as annealing, normalizing, hardening, drawing, and tempering. It includes maintaining heat treat solutions to specifications.

Work Performed
Heat treat production steel and aluminum parts, tooling parts, dies and stock made from steel or steel alloys. Determines the heat treat process and quenching required to obtain results. Determines proper timing and temperature of ovens, salt baths according to material composition, shape, size and thickness. Makes necessary allowances for subsequent fabrication operations. Determines proper loading to minimize warpage. Makes special set-ups from rods and straps to cradle and hold odd shaped parts. Places parts under refrigeration as required.

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Performs such typical operations as heat treating machine parts, dies, and tooling parts which must be held to exacting dimensions and which require no further finish or require only final or clean-up grind; heat treating of tool steel dies which have both thick and thin sections and are subject to considerable danger of cracking, shrinking, or warping; dies requiring sharp edges, such as blank dies, dies having compound contours that must coordinate and nest.

Performs such typical operations as annealing and hardening primary stressed aircraft parts such as landing gears, motor mounts and landing gear struts which have subsequent machining operations. Anneals tooling parts and heat treats larger tooling parts according to established formula.

Operates hand or power equipment to change furnace or bath and quenching. Checks and maintains heat treat solutions. Operates age hardening ovens by checking orders for correct material and preceding heat treat; sets controls for proper heat and time according to established specifications. Records treatment method for future reference, working with authorized liaison personnel as required.

Selects and places shims to correct out of tolerance conditions from reference tables and written procedures.

Identifies composition of unknown metals by spark or other tests. Makes hardness check tests and detects flaws resulting from heat treat.

Occupational Summary - Rotary Shaper Operator A
This occupation requires the set-up and operation of various types and sizes of rotary shapers to shape flat and formed sheet metal, plate, extruded parts and other aircraft materials.

Two years experience which provides knowledge of heat treating methods and processes and aircraft sheet metal hand finishing, bending, or forming. This experience can be totally from the outside or in combination with satisfactory performance as a Sheet Metal Operator, Code 526-3, performing router, circular saw, or other closely related metal cutting work or documented braking or forming experience as a Production Worker, Code 555-3.
NOTE:
Completion of a high-quality industrial-based machine shop training program which is typically 800-1600 training hours in duration would offset six months of the two-year requirement.
Employee must be able to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints and understand heat treat specifications and nomenclature.
Basic Qualifications:
Two years experience which provides knowledge of heat treating methods and processes and aircraft sheet metal hand finishing, bending, or forming. This experience can be totally from the outside or in combination with satisfactory performance as a Sheet Metal Operator, Code 526-3, performing router, circular saw, or other closely related metal cutting work or documented braking or forming experience as a Production Worker, Code 555-3.

NOTE:
Completion of a high-quality industrial-based machine shop training program which is typically 800-1600 training hours in duration would offset six months of the two-year requirement.
Employee must be able to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints and understand heat treat specifications and nomenclature.
Desired Skills:
Aircraft related experience
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: 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. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
job.Qualifications

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They're dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Hourly/Non-Exempt

Client-provided location(s): Marietta, GA, USA
Job ID: lockheed-627631BR
Employment Type: Other

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