Job Information
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Painter, Entry level Paint Technician Level 1 - Multi Shift in Greenville, South Carolina
Description:
You will be the Aircraft Painter, Paint Technician Level_1 for the Lockheed Martin Greenville Paint Operations Team. Our team is responsible for Production and Sustainment paint/coating operations on F-16s and other military aircraft prior to delivery to our customers.
What You Will Be Doing
We're hiring an entry-level Aircraft Painter with skills or experience in sealant, compound fillers, paint coatings, and aircraft maintenance. This role involves masking aircraft, using different systems for documentation, and collaborating with team members. If you're detail-oriented and passionate about aircraft painting, join our team and grow with us.
Some of the essential job functions will be:
• Learn the basic principles of surface preparation, including the importance of a clean, contaminant-free surface for painting. Understands the types of contaminants, the tools, processes, and chemicals used for their removal under direct supervision.
• Acquire knowledge of different types of aircraft paints, their basic application techniques, and compatible equipment, while adhering to initial safety and environmental protocols.
• Familiarize oneself with the basic functions and safety procedures for using hand-held and power tools in painting applications.
• Learn basics of painting equipment maintenance, including routine cleaning and simple checks to ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Gain awareness of company culture, values, and the basics of Foreign Object Damage (FOD) prevention and its impact on safety and operations.
Physical Duties:
• Use hands to grasp, handle, and/or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.
• Frequently stand, walk, stoop, kneel, squat, crawl, twist, and work on or in the aircraft.
• Frequently lift and/or push or pull up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or push or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Perform repetitive movements and work overhead.
• Candidates must complete a post-offer medical exam prior to start.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee will be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as needed to perform job tasks. The employee is regularly exposed to vibration.
What’s In It For You: 3 day weekends every weekend!
Candidates must be able to work an alternative work schedule such as a 4x10 or 3x12 schedule with regularly scheduled weekend hours (e.g. Wed-Sat, Fri-Sun, or Thurs-Sunday)
From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Who You Are
You are a multi-faceted teammate able to communicate and function effectively on an engineering team to create a collaborative and inclusive environment that allows for the establishment of mission goals. You have experience with itemized planning and prioritization of tasks that drives the
efficient execution of objectives.
Our Commitment to DEI
We Hear You, We See You. At LM Aeronautics, we invest in people and promoting the sharing of ideas to create incredible solutions. We know that our success depends on the combined efforts of diverse-thinkers like you! At LM Aeronautics, we cultivate an inclusive environment that appreciates differences and unique thinking.
Our global commitment to diversity and inclusion reflects our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence. Learn more here: Global DEI.
This position is in Greenville, SC Discover Greenville.
Basic Qualifications:
- Candidate must have basic understanding of paint applications using various paint equipment, with automotive/aircraft experience or related training.
- Ability to work any shift and/or weekend as directed by operational requirements
- Must pass all Physical requirements in obtaining Respiratory certification
Desired Skills:
-Aircraft strip experience
-Full paint experience on Low Observable and RAM coatings
- Man lift operator experience
- Ability to work most paint tasks with minimal supervision
- Ability to interpret paint drawings and apply paint in accordance with standard processes
- Ability to work in a safe and efficient manner while maintaining a clean, FOD-free work area
- High School education or equivalent (GED)
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.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
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
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Technicians
Type: Full-Time
Shift: Multiple shifts available