Description: Manufacturing Support Team Member (Prod Ops Specialist) - Junior Level

Location: Greenville SC

What You Will Be Doing

Join our F-16 Block 70 Manufacturing Support Team to play a vital role in advancing production processes within a collaborative, team-based environment. As a key contributor, you will support the entire manufacturing and assembly lifecycle of the F-16, with a primary focus on training and certifying technicians in structural assembly processes. Through hands-on guidance and continuous improvement initiatives, you will help shape high-quality production standards and drive operational excellence on the assembly line.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide on-the-job training, procedural guidance, and certification for structural assembly processes to ensure proficiency and high standards.

- Maintain a constant presence on the assembly line to assess, instruct, and provide feedback, helping to uphold industry and company standards.

- Evaluate skill levels, provide corrective recommendations to supervisors, and manage re-certification for personnel as needed.

- Address complex challenges within aircraft manufacturing processes by referring to policies, established practices, and by developing innovative solutions.

- Participate in corrective action investigations, root cause analysis, and recommend/implement process improvements to streamline operations.

- Ensure your area of responsibility upholds lean manufacturing and 6S principles to maintain a clean, safe, and organized environment.

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 bring a strong foundation in aircraft manufacturing and assembly, combined with an eye for detail and commitment to quality. Known for your hands-on approach, you’re comfortable providing direct training and feedback to team members and take pride in driving high-performance standards. You’re proactive about identifying opportunities for improvement and have a problem-solving mindset that contributes to the team’s overall success.

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience relative to aircraft manufacturing, structural assembly, or Modification.

• Experience reading and interpreting detail, blueprints, lay-out sketches, process standards and specifications

• Experience with understanding aircraft work instructions

Desired Skills:

• F-16 structural repair experience highly desirable.

• Experience in explaining/demonstrating in detail layout process and secure coordination of assemblies working to station, water, center, and butt lines shown on engineering documents.

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: First