Assembler I

Lumitron Corporation; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance after 3 months

Paid time off

401K after 1 year

On-the-job training from day one

Job summary

Lumitron Corporation in Berkeley Heights, NJ, is hiring for an assembly staff role. This full-time, on-site position involves hand-assembling precise lighting components used in avionics and defense systems, with comprehensive on-the-job training and a clear path to reliability and accuracy.

No prior aerospace background is required; candidates with steady hands and patience for detail will thrive. Training begins immediately, with performance-based increases and long-term stability in a small,

Qualifications

• Steady hands with patience for detailed, repetitive work.
• Punctual and reliable with strong attention to quality.
• No aerospace background required; willing to learn on the job.

Responsibilities

• Hand-assemble precision lighting components and subassemblies.
• Follow detailed work instructions with accuracy over speed.
• Inspect your own work before it moves to the next stage.
• Keep your workspace clean, organized, and audit-ready.
• Work closely with a small team in a quiet production environment.

Skills

Steady hands

Attention to detail

Reliability

Willing to learn

Patience for repetitive work

Tools

Microscope

Job description

Full-Time · On-Site ·$18-$21/hour based on skill level · Benefits included · No experience required

What you’ll be building: Our lighting components go into avionic displays used in commercial and military aircraft cockpits.

The job – Assembly Staff

You will be assembling subminiature, tiny, high-precision lighting components by hand — the kind of parts that end up in military aircraft, avionics panels, and defense systems. This is an entry-level position with exposure to engineering and manufacturing. It is careful, quiet, repetitive work that requires you to care about getting it right every single time.

We’ll train you. Most people are fully up to speed within a few days. What we can’t train is the disposition — the kind of person who slows down when it matters, notices when something doesn’t look right, and takes satisfaction in a clean and accurate finished part.

If that’s you, keep reading.

What your days look like

• Hand-assembling precision lighting components and subassemblies at your workstation
• Following detailed work instructions — accuracy matters more than speed
• Inspecting your own work before it moves to the next stage
• Keeping your workspace clean, organized, and audit-ready
• Working closely with a small, experienced team in a quiet production environment

Who we’re looking for

Not a resume — a type of person.

• You have steady hands and genuine patience for detailed work
• You find satisfaction in repetitive tasks done correctly, not frustration
• You show up on time, every time, and take reliability seriously
• You ask questions when something doesn’t look right instead of hoping it is fine
• Previous hands-on work — assembly, electronics, manufacturing, even hobbies like model-building or crafts — is a plus, not a requirement
• Experience — welding, soldering, deflashing, lamp assembly, working with subminiature parts, working under a microscope — a big plus

What you get

• $18-$21 per hour based on experience, with increases tied to your performance
• Opportunity for overtimeFull benefits: health insurance after three (3) months of service and paid time off
• 401K after one year of service
• Stable full-time schedule — we’ve been in business 52 years and we are
• not going anywhere
• On-the-job training from day one — no aerospace background required
• A small team where your work is visible and your contribution actually matters
• The kind of company where people tend to stay

Documentation

You must be able to provide a full I-9 packet with legal documents.

About Lumitron

We’ve been making aerospace and defense lighting components for 52 years. Our parts are in military aircraft around the world — cockpit panels, night vision systems, crew stations. We’re a small team in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and we take our work seriously because the people using our components do too.

We are not a warehouse. We are not a factory floor. We’re a precision manufacturing shop where quality is the whole job.

If you’ve ever built something with your hands and felt proud of how it came out — this is probably your kind of position.