Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) is seeking to fill more than 200 total open positions at its plants in Salina in Onondaga County, and Owego in Tioga County. The open positions are about evenly split between the two locations, says Matthew Wilkowski, systems engineering manager with Lockheed Martin in Salina. “It’s pretty close to 50-50,” […]
Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) is seeking to fill more than 200 total open positions at its plants in Salina in Onondaga County, and Owego in Tioga County.
The open positions are about evenly split between the two locations, says Matthew Wilkowski, systems engineering manager with Lockheed Martin in Salina.
“It’s pretty close to 50-50,” he says. Wilkowski spoke with CNYBJ in a phone interview on Jan. 8
Lockheed Martin is hoping to hire people for entry-level jobs and for positions that will require more experience. The jobs are available in both technology and manufacturing areas, he notes.
“It’s really due to some of our engineering population coming into retirement age, and that coupled with a whole lot of contracts coming in and future work that we’re forecasting as well,” says Wilkowski.
Lockheed Martin currently employs about 1,600 people at the Salina plant and about 2,500 in Owego.
The company is seeking candidates for positions in systems engineering, electrical engineering, and hardware and software engineering. On the manufacturing side, Lockheed is looking for experienced assembly and electronic technicians and testers, according to Wilkowski.
“In the engineering-technology part of our business, we’re looking for people with STEM-related bachelor’s degrees … degrees such as electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, math and physics majors,” he says.
STEM is short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
“On the operations or manufacturing side, the firm wants people with experience in the different trade skills in assembling and things like that,” says Wilkowski.
The Bethesda, Maryland–based defense contractor held a career fair for those openings on Jan. 11 at Destiny USA.
CNYBJ asked Wilkowski what people can do if they’re interested in applying but couldn’t attend the career fair.
“They can go to lockheedmartin.com/careers and there they can sort and filter on both Liverpool, New York and Owego, New York to find the available positions at both of these New York sites,” says Wilkowski.
He offered some advice to people who might choose to pursue an entry-level position with Lockheed Martin.
Candidates “don’t necessarily need to be a radar engineer” to apply for an entry-level position, as long as they have a background in the STEM fields, he says. Wilkowski says Lockheed Martin will provide training “based on the engineering skills that you already have.”
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