LMI Aerospace

Metal Fabrication · Aerospace Manufacturing
Truth index BSponsors visas
25Open roles10 posted in 30 days+6 this week
$56kMedian advertised pay$54k – $95k−19% vs market
42 daysTime to fillmedian of 31 closed rolesmarket: 37 days
B 83/100Truth index
Lately:+6 roles posted this weekFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 14, 2026

LMI Aerospace is a maker of aerostructures and assemblies and is part of the Sonaca Group, operating as Sonaca North America with 10 locations across North America. It hires manufacturing planners, press brake operators, inventory and shipping clerks and manufacturing engineering project managers in Auburn, Saint Charles, Tulsa and Vista. The company is headquartered in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States.

It is hiring: 25 open roles, 10 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 19% below the market estimate for the same roles.

Founded
1948
Employees
1001-5000estimated range
Open roles
25 in 6 citiesAlion job postings
Website
lmiaerospace.com

As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 25 open roles at LMI Aerospace. It was founded in 1948. The median pay stated in its open roles is $56k, across 11 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
83/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.

Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 48 of open roles.

10Posted in 30 days40% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 25
6Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
51 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States51On site
Cuba2On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
LMI Aerospace42 days
Market, same roles37 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand37
Pay31
Your chance51
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 40 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
83 / 100LMI Aerospace scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 42 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale67%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering48
Administrative12▼
Field & Service12▼
Operations7
Management5▼
Customer Success5▼
Newest roles
Quality Inspector - 2nd Shift
$44k – $56k per year · In office · Full-Time · High School Diploma · Auburn
Quality Inspector - 1st Shift
$44k – $56k per year · In office · Full-Time · High School Diploma · Auburn
Quality Inspector
In office · Full-Time · High School Diploma · Cottonwood Falls
Assembler
In office · Full-Time · High School Diploma · Cottonwood Falls
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English520%
Degree asked
High School Diploma 58%Bachelor's Degree 42%
Experience asked: 3.3 years on average, in 12 postings. 24 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Retirement plans2080%
Accidental insurance1976%
Dental insurance1976%
401k plan14%
Contract type
Full-Time 24Internship 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pays 19% below the market estimate for the same roles.

$56kMedianmarket estimate $69k
$54k – $95kTypical rangeUSD a year
$130kHighest paying roleProject Engineer
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Named in the work visa registers of United States.

United StatesUS 1 #5,755 of 8,998 sponsors
1 ▼ 88%H-1B filings in 12 months
1Green card filings
$318kMedian offered salary
Who they sponsor
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits

In the register as LMI Aerospace, Inc., St. Charles, MO (+1 more)

Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jul 30, 2025

Footprint

Hiring in 6 cities in 1 country.

6Cities
1Countries
St. CharlesBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
St. Charles United StatesPlant / site8Finance, Industrial Engineering, Networking13%
Auburn United StatesPlant / site8Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service0%
Vista United StatesPlant / site3Industrial Engineering, Field & Service0%
Cottonwood Falls United StatesNot classified2Field & Service, Industrial Engineering0%
San Diego United StatesNot classified2Analytics, Industrial Engineering50%
Fredonia United StatesNot classified2Industrial Engineering0%
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Technologies named in job postings at LMI Aerospace over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

9Technologies in use
15Postings analysed
66/100Stack modernity
LanguagesSQL 7%
Cloud & platformsWindows 13%
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Full LMI Aerospace tech stack9 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site