Lockheed Martin

Composite Worker B

Posted on: 1 Mar 2021

Bridgeport, CT

Job Description

Description:
Function

Perform a wide variety of duties involved in the fabrication, assembly, and bonding, trim rework, modification or repair of diversified composite details and assemblies.

Typical Responsibilities
Follow prescribed methods and procedures to cut, shape, bond, lay-up, cure, trim and assemble a wide variety of composite components.

Prepare molds, dies, templates, etc., for fabrication process.

Cut to shape and lay-up a variety of materials.

Vacuum bag and cure composite material in oven or autoclave as required.

Select and utilize required templates, hand or machine tools and equipment to trim, bond, repair and/or rework composite components.

Perform a variety of operations to drill, ream, countersink, bolt, rivet, etc., as required to fit, align and assemble details and/or components to form desired structure.

Bring assemblies to proper weight and distribution by placement of additional plies or insertion of weights as necessary.

Check work to assure quality standards are maintained.

Perform other related or similar type duties as required, including moving parts and materials around area.

Refer all unusual situations or recurring problems to working leader or supervisor.

As required segregate waste material and follow good housekeeping practices to maintain cleanliness of assigned areas and comply with all EH&S procedures.
Basic Qualifications:
Education: Work from ordinary drawings and sketches and use variable measuring instruments such as micrometers and vernier gages. Requires knowledge of arithmetic involving decimals and fractions and its application to the reading of drawings and the use of variable measuring instruments. Requires knowledge of composite manufacturing methods and procedures. Must maintain current certification(s) as required.

Experience: Up to one year.
Desired Skills:
Initiative & Ingenuity :
Follow prescribed methods and detailed oral or written instructions to lay-up, bond, trim, and repair and/or reconstruct composite components according to specification. Judgment and care required fabricating components according to quality requirements. Decisions are limited in scope and are usually controlled by precedent. Check own work and work of assigned helpers to insure conformance to established quality standards.

Physical Demand:
Lay-up, trim and work with diversified composite materials, components, and cumbersome mold structures, which may require working in awkward positions. Overall moderate effort.

Mental & Visual Demand:
Continuous mental and visual attention required to perform diversified duties to lay-up laminates, assemble detail parts on molds, to bond, trim, and repair components, and to use proper hand and/or power tools and other equipment.

Responsibility Equipment & Process:
Possible chipped mold cavity as a result of tools dropped on mold surface would necessitate lost time to repair. Probable damage seldom over $200.

Responsibility Material & Product:
Failure to properly lay-up details as identified on mold, incorrect fitting of core material or other details, improper trim of components, etc., could result in scrap or loss time to rework. Probable loss seldom over $200.

Responsibility Safety of Others:
Carelessness in the use of hand or machine tools may cause lost-time injuries to others such as eye injuries from flying particles.

Responsibility Work of Others:
May direct and instruct 1 or 2 others.
Working Conditions Majority of duties performed under usual shop conditions with some exposure to disagreeable elements in minor degree. Vibration of trim tools, abrasive dust considerably alleviated by water routing equipment and down draft tables.

Unavoidable Hazards:
Exposed to possible skin irritation from adhesives or solvents; gloves and other protective equipment available. Possible lost-time injuries due to crushed hand or foot due to handling of fixtures, tools, molds, etc.: 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: Standard Monday to Friday 40 hour work weekClearance Level: None 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. Theyre 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 Martins 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-ExemptBusiness Unit: RMSRelocation Available: NoCareer Area: Assembly/Laborers Type: Full-Time Shift: First

Lockheed Martin

Bethesda, MD

Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995, and Loral Federal Systems in 1996. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, DC, area. Lockheed Martin employs approximately 100,000 people worldwide as of December 2017.

Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in the aerospace, defense, security, and technologies industry. It is the world's largest defense contractor based on revenue for fiscal year 2014. In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales; it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).

Lockheed Martin operates in four business segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space Systems. The company has received the Collier Trophy six times, including in 2001 for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B LiftFan Propulsion System, and most recently in 2006 for leading the team that developed the F-22 Raptor fighter jet. Lockheed Martin is currently developing the F-35 Lightning II and leads the international supply chain, leads the team for the development and implementation of technology solutions for the new USAF Space Fence (AFSSS replacement), and is the primary contractor for the development of the Orion command module. The company also invests in healthcare systems, renewable energy systems, intelligent energy distribution and compact nuclear fusion.