Description: Production Operations Specialist- Junior Level
Location: Greenville SC
What You Will Be Doing
Become a part of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics F-16 Program in Greenville, South Carolina, and contribute to a team-oriented manufacturing environment! As a Production Operations Specialist, you will support the F-16 Structural Assembly manufacturing process, gaining valuable experience in structural maintenance and fabrication. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills while ensuring the highest standards of production quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with proficiency evaluations and play a vital role in observing, instructing, and training technicians on the assembly line.
- Develop a thorough understanding of principles, concepts, and standards related to aircraft manufacturing, as well as industry and company best practices.
- Maintain a proactive approach on the assembly line by identifying areas for improvement in structural assembly processes and procedures.
- Collaborate with team members to provide additional training, and make recommendations to management for addressing performance issues.
- Contribute to problem-solving efforts related to complex challenges in the aircraft manufacturing process, leveraging established precedents and policies.
- Support corrective action investigations and root cause analysis while advising on and implementing innovative solutions and process improvements.
- Assist in lean processes and 6S initiatives to enhance operational efficiency within your area of responsibility.
- Successfully demonstrate proficiency in the standards, principles, and techniques required for this role.
What's In It For You
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 an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a passion for aerospace and manufacturing, eager to develop your skills in aircraft production. A quick learner and team player, you thrive in collaborative environments and are committed to expanding your knowledge in structural assembly and maintenance processes. With a keen eye for detail, you ensure that all operations are executed accurately while maintaining high-quality standards. You approach challenges with a proactive problem-solving mindset and possess strong communication skills, enabling effective instruction and collaboration with technicians and management. Adaptable and open to feedback, you consistently strive to meet and exceed performance expectations.
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.
At Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, we're taking innovation to the next level. From designing the most advanced air vehicle to designing aircraft that defies gravity, our engineers live on the cutting edge of technology.
Greenville, SC
This position is in Greenville, SC Discover Greenville.
- Must be a United States citizen.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience relative to aircraft manufacturing, structural assembly, or modification.
- Experience in structural layout process and assembly working to fuselage station, water, and butt lines shown on engineering documents.
- Experience reading and interpreting detail, blueprints, lay-out sketches, process standards and specifications
- Experience with understanding aircraft work instructions.
Desired Skills:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline
- 5 years aircraft structural assembly or modification experience with F-16 structural repair experience highly desirable.
- Communication and interpersonal skills for the purpose of communication and instruction at all levels.
Standard Job Description :
Supports production, business, and other processes in a team-based manufacturing environment. Performs activities in a variety of cross-functional areas including production planning and control, total quality management, systems, manufacturing, equipment and facilities engineering, material management, and process reengineering. The incumbent may facilitate self-directed work teams, provide training in core skill areas to teams and peers, and interact with internal and external customers with respect to product planning, problem resolution, and process improvement. Incumbents are generally experienced in one or more areas of manufacturing operations.
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: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Manufacturing
Type: Full-Time
Shift: Second
