Lockheed Martin to hold recruiting event on Thursday at Destiny USA

SALINA, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) wants to fill more than 100 total job openings at its plants in Salina and in Owego.

The defense contractor will hold a recruitment event on Thursday from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the third floor of the Canyon area of Destiny USA.

The “vast majority” of the open positions are available at the company’s Salina site, Thomas Kogut, strategic communications manager at Lockheed Martin, said in an email response to a BJNN inquiry.

“[Since] we had a lot of success at this event last year, we’re really hoping to get out there again and get a lot of interest,” says Matthew Wilkowski, engineering manager at Lockheed Martin’s Salina plant, who is organizing the recruitment effort.

Representatives from the company’s Owego site will also attend the Destiny USA event recruiting for their needs, he adds.

Lockheed Martin employs about 1,500 people at the Salina plant and about 2,300 in Owego.

The recruitment event won’t include any formal interviews, but attendees should bring a résumé, says Wilkowski.

“We look at it more as a meet-and-greet type of situation, so we want to encourage people that are coming out to bring a résumé and think about the different experiences and skill sets that they’ve had throughout their life that they might want to share with us, he adds.

Company officials will direct attendees to the different areas that most align with their interests, says Wilkowski.

The positions available include “about a 50-50 split” between “experienced professionals” and entry-level hires, says Wilkowski.

“Beyond that, we’re looking to hire a lot of positions into our engineering department … software engineering, hardware, systems, mechanical, integration and test engineers,” he adds.

Some of the positions also target the firm’s manufacturing operations, including assembly technicians and testers.

The job opportunities follow an increase in retirements and “growth” in the firm’s business areas, the firm said in its notice announcing the recruitment event.

Lockheed Martin’s Salina plant is primarily involved in the development and production of radar and sonar technology for a “broad range of domestic customers and more than 40 international countries,” the firm said.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a security and aerospace company that employs about 98,000 people worldwide and focuses on the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services.

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