Lockheed Martin to add 400 more Fort Worth Workers in F-35 Hiring Binge
Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth factory has already added 1,800 workers in the past year. And on Monday, the aerospace giant held a hiring fair to add 400 more workers to its Fort Worth workforce.
The Maryland-based defense company needs the labor as it ramps up production of the F-35, its next-generation stealth fighter jet.
Despite the blustery weather, people started lining up in the wee hours of the morning outside the Sheraton hotel in downtown Fort Worth. By 6:45, the parade of aspiring airplane builders was four blocks long — and that was just the people who hadn’t registered. More than a thousand had applied ahead of time.
Inside a hotel conference room, a couple dozen staffers spent the day interviewing droves of applicants, offering the best candidates a letter of intent and putting them on track for a job building brand-new fighter jets.
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