Facilities Engineer (Former Employee), Fort Worth, TX – May 23, 2012
Pros: health benefits, matching 401k
Cons: parking, regimented work places.
My emediate supervisors were great. Those further up the line I had little contact with, though whenever I needed information, they were quick to respond. Health benefits were great, Work places were very regimented. Parking was a hassle.. Some of my jobs were different and required additional research. A lot of it was repetitive. I missed doing buiding – more... design – less
Material Controller (Current Employee), Marietta, GA – May 22, 2012
Pros: discounts at multiple locations, athletic facility, free day at six flags
Cons: short breaks, high prices for in building lunches, limits promotion progression, limited overtime
The job has it's good moments but at the same time the job is about seniority. Unfortunately, the senior personnel at times do not produce leaving a lot of work for those who have little time in service. The union is supposed to help but they work more for the individuals who have a large amount of years in service. There is not age limit of any one – more... working there, which at times causes problems – less
Embedded Software Engineer Staff (Former Employee), Fort Worth, TX – May 22, 2012
Pros: great assignments, great people to work with, good benefits
Cons: treatment of hourly workers could be improved
Worked for General Dynamics, now Lockheed Martin, for many years. The company encouraged employees to take advantage of the college tuition program, and as my education advanced, my career also advanced. I began work for GD/Lockheed as a clerk/steno/text data processor, and retired from the company as a respected, knowledgeable embedded software staff – more... engineer with plenty of responsibility, having gained both a bachelor and master degree. I was fortunate to almost always work with and for great people. It was fun to be a part of the movers and shakers and always after the next innovation in technology, processes, and business. – less
Overall a great Company. Working contracts overseas very limited social or interaction.
Site Manager, System Engineer Sr (Current Employee), Melbourne, FL – May 22, 2012
Pros: intelligence community, deversified working invironments.
Cons: limited social interactions, limited resources working on fob.
Lockheed Martin has provied some great opportunity being the largest Defense contractor with over 128k it has a lot of resources for greater opportunity. It does take a while to get the paper work done to look for other jobs and career changes. Mgmnt tries to maintain a good working envionment. It is sort of difficult maintaining overseas personnel. – more... And inforcing policy. Work is interesing since it provides a working knowledge of the defence working invironement. Its at the leading of technology and a great learning experiene for anyone not accustomed to the corporate invironment.
You get a lot of exposure with working with a deversified group of people from Avionics, Electronics, Mechanical, Information Tech, to the Government of ISR and intelligence community.
My function routinely put in in managing a team group in operation of a site. The provides reconnaissance information to the military via the ISR directives and procedures. It provides a vital role in terrorism and prevention. And find it extremely rewarding. – less
Plumber/Pipefitter (Former Employee), Littleton, CO – May 18, 2012
Pros: enviornment
Cons: security
Predicitive maintenance / plumbing / troubleshooting Learned ultrasonics and infrared thermography Management was excellent and more than fair Hardest part was the weather at times Enjoyable part of the day was coming home to my family
The company is more concerned with what they can take away from the employees that do thework than managing the company.
A&P Mechanic / Field & Service Mechanic (Current Employee), Fort Worth, TX – May 17, 2012
Pros: not as structured as inside the main plant.
Cons: the weather, cold in winter and hot in summer.
My day could consist of launching jets to removing and replacing an engine , to troubleshooting an electrical problem. It could just abount anything aircraft related. Most of our supervisors are good to work with. From there on up into upper management they are almost impossible to work with. My co-workers are great to work with. For the most part we – more... are all very skilled at our jobs and that makes it easier and safer to work.Dealing with a management team that does not care about following paperwork or getting us to proper tools to make the jobs go easier.Working on aircraft, that is what I love to do. – less
Big corporate culture basking in unlimited defense funds
Sr Mfg Engr (Former Employee), Grand Prairie, TX – May 16, 2012
Pros: flexible, pays competitively, solicits input, leadership development program for young
Cons: diversity nonsense, fake flex-time, inside the box leadership, sick time must be made up.
The company seems like it wants to do the right thing. They think that they are leading in employee satisfaction and quality place to work. They suffer from group think. Managers are supposed to be the leaders but they follow the tradition in order to stay in place. Some managers are beginning to see the writing on the wall and get more efficient in – more... their productivity but it's a big slow ship and there are many who just don't get it. Cost/benefit analysis rarely sees the light of day in production/quality management.
Young workers get swept up in the corporate world and don't really contribute a substantial change in direction. They blend into the wasteful environment inherent in government contracting.
There is opportunity to move around and experiment with different roles. They do annual employee surveys but the questions are fairly directive, not really opening up the scope to encompass high level problem areas. They offer quasi flex-time. They still are drinking the diversity cool-aid and cower to special interest groups forcing counterproductive business decisions. – less
Logistics (Current Employee), Virginia – May 15, 2012
Pros: benefits, education assistance, training on ethics/diversity, great environment to learn in
Cons: management communication, lack of advancement opportunity
Benefits and education assistance were very satisfactory. The company is very good with ensuring all employees are educated on the importance of ethics and diversity in the workplace. During my time I was able to learn a lot about the company and my position there. Unfortunately, it is a hard company to advance in, especially if you choose not to work – more... an insane amount of overtime (most of which is not paid since many are salary). Also because of the nature of the contracting world, job security is not the highest. In addition, the extreme lack of communication between management and down the chain of command caused low morale. All in all, my time has been rewarding but challenging due to the communication and advancement issues. – less
