Toolmaker

JOB ID: 718140BR

Date posted: Feb. 19, 2026

Description:

You will be a Toolmaker with our team in Archbald, PA. Lockheed Martin Archbald is a full-service Missiles and Fire Control facility that provides design, manufacturing, engineering & field service support for both domestic and international customers.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Toolmaker, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Study blueprints, sketches, models, or oral and written specifications to plan sequences of operations for fabricating tools, dies, or assemblies


• Sets up and operates conventional or computer numerically controlled machines such as lathes, milling machines and grinders to make, repair or modify dies, jigs, gauges, tools, production and prototype parts


• Verify dimensions, alignments, and clearances of finished parts for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, and dial indicators


• Interprets CAD data, prints and sketches with regard to fabrication and can follow written and/or verbal instructions
  
• Recommends and executes changes to achieve process improvements and/or cycle time reductions


• Performs minor preventive maintenance to equipment
  
• Participates in the development or redesign of tooling and fixtures to improve quality or reduce costs


• Collaborates with other personnel to train or teach various machining or set-up techniques to obtain proficient use of time and produce quality parts


• Provides technical support to Manufacturing personnel when necessary


• Provides feedback on prescribed processes, fixturing, and tooling to ME to optimize efficiency

Why Join Us

You're a skilled and experienced toolmaker who is passionate about working with your hands and creating high-quality products. As a Toolmaker, you'll have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, collaborate with a talented team, and contribute to delivering high-quality products and services to our customers. If you're looking for a role that offers opportunities for growth, a dynamic work environment, and a commitment to excellence, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Further Information About This Opportunity

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Basic Qualifications:

• Tool Maker’s certificate or 10 years of on the job training in a job shop fabrication environment operating various machines
• Able to work safely with cleaning chemicals and solvents
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of properties of metals, shop mathematics and layout, machining, assembly and brazing procedures as related to Tool Room type work
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods
• Proficiency in CNC programming, set up and operation of CNC milling machines and lathes
• Skilled in the use of all types of gauges and precision measuring instruments and must be able to adjust machines and verify dimensional accuracy of the machine functions
• Good interpersonal skills
• U.S. citizenship is required, as this position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Desired Skills:

• AutoCAD and/or 3D modeling experience
• Tool making experience
• Experience in set up and operation of CNC machines
• Experience in the development of, or redesign of, tooling and fixtures to improve quality or reduce costs

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 employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
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:

Hourly/Non-Exempt

Business Unit:

MISSILES AND FIRE CONTROL

Relocation Available:

No

Career Area:

Manufacturing

Type:

Full-Time

Shift:

First

At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.

United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.

Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.

Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
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