F-35 Lightning II Mechanic

“You'll maintain the F-35 — the fifth-generation fighter that is reshaping how Marine aviation integrates with the rest of the joint force. F-35 mechanics are working on the most advanced tactical aircraft in the world, and the early platform experience you build now will have value in the defense aviation industry for decades. The F-35 program is a multi-decade procurement with a support infrastructure that will be hiring for as long as the aircraft flies.”

The F-35 is a remarkably different maintenance experience from legacy platforms — the ALIS (now ODIN) maintenance information system, the propulsion system's complexity, and the low-observable coatings that require specific repair procedures all create a maintenance environment that is genuinely advanced. You will learn systems that did not exist a generation ago. The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine has unique characteristics that F-35 mechanics understand specifically and that civilian turbine mechanics encounter rarely. Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, and the F-35 Program Office contractor base hire from the F-35 mechanic community directly — the type experience has immediate value to the sustainment programs that will support this aircraft for the next 40 years.