Crater Builder - Shipping

All Aviation Jobs; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA, is seeking a skilled woodworker to fabricate shipping crates and related components for military specifications. You will lay out parts, operate power tools and read blueprints to build sturdy crates.

This full-time, first-shift role involves reading drawings, using a range of hand tools, and applying strict quality standards to ensure safe and compliant packaging for domestic and overseas shipments.

Qualifications

• Two years of validated woodwork experience to sketches or drawings.
• Ability to use a wide range of hand tools listed in qualifications.
• Ability to read blueprints, drawings, or sketches and follow specs.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate shipping crates and cradles per blueprints and specs.
• Set up and operate wood-processing tools and power equipment.
• Follow military specifications and verbal instructions to assemble components.

Skills

Woodwork experience

Blueprint reading

Tool operation

Tools

Tape measures

Hand saws

Reciprocating saw

Saber saw

Router

Sander

Hammer

Pneumatic drill

Corded drill

Cordless drill

Pneumatic nail guns

Staple guns

Circular saws

Sockets

Job description

Description:Fabricates shipping containers, crates and special devices to military or commercial specifications and packs, blocked or braced all typed of materials, tools, parts and assemblies in these containers or on rail cars or tractor trailers for domestic and overseas shipment and/or storage.

Work Performed

Lays out and fabricates detail parts of wood to be used in assembly of shipping containers. Sets up and operatea gang ripsaw, panel saw, band saw, cutoff saw, table saw, drill press and other power tools as necessary. Operates radio controlled and pendant cranes, 5,000 lbs. and above electric fork lifts and pneumatic nailing machines. Works from rough sketches, engineering blueprints, military specifications and verbal instructions to design, fabricate and assemble component parts of crates. Follows specifications to set nail patterns on panels, determines type of yokes and saddles to be built, panel thicknesses and locations of padding.

Knowledge and Ability Required

Working knowledge of and experience with box building and crating practices; wood grades, strengths and uses; wood and nail sizes. Knowledge of and ability to operate all the above listed equipment and tools. Ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings, sketches, military specifications and to follow verbal instructions and generally accepted practices. Use shop mathematics including fractions and decimals.

Basic Qualifications

• Two years of validated woodwork experience including close tolerance finish work to sketches or drawings. Ability to use various hand tools including tape measures, hand saws , reciprocating saws, saber saw, router, sander (belt and disk), hammers, pneumatic drills, corded and cordless drills, pneumatic nail guns and staple guns, corded and cordless circular saws, sockets.
• Ability to make templates and shop aids to make various saw cuts. Working knowledge and ability to set up and make compound cuts including miters, compound miters, dados, tenons, etc.
• Knowledge of structural design and integrity to include the ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings, or sketches.
• Ability to fabricate shipping cradles made of steel.

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

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

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Experience Level

Experience Level: Hourly/Non-Exempt

Business Unit

Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY

Relocation Available

Relocation Available: No

Career Area

Career Area: Manufacturing

Type

Type: Full-Time

Shift

Shift: First

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.