Assembly Technician

Airbus•Kinston, NC

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is seeking an Assembly Technician to join their team in Kinston, NC. The team specializes in manufacturing crucial aircraft components, specifically large, advanced composite aerostructures for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar. This role involves performing a variety of production assembly operations, ranging from repetitive to non-repetitive tasks, on electronic and/or mechanical assemblies and subassemblies like modules, boards, panels, drawers, frames, and cables. The technician will work with diagrams and drawings, create initial layouts, and utilize hand and power tools, jigs, and saws. Responsibilities also include conducting continuity checks, performing quality inspections, and potentially disassembling, modifying, reworking, reassembling, and testing experimental or prototype assemblies. The company is committed to providing appropriate job training to enable employees to perform all necessary job functions.

Requirements

Must be willing and able to work any shift.
Workkeys Assessment completion OR Highschool Diploma/GED.
Daily able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
Daily able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
Daily able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
Daily able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
Several times a week able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
Several times a week able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
Several times a week able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
Daily able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer.
Several times a month able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
Daily able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor.
Daily able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
Required PPE includes, but is not limited to Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks. Protective Gloves.
Able to walk through office and production areas, around flightline and airstrips and sometimes on uneven indoor and/or outdoor surfaces.
Able to function at heights up to 40 feet.
Able to operate moving platforms, hydraulic lifts and forklifts.

Responsibilities

Performs a variety of tasks ranging from repetitive to non-repetitive production assembly operations on electronic and/or mechanical assemblies and subassemblies such as modules, boards, panels, drawers, frames, and cables.
Works from diagrams and drawings, makes initial layouts, and uses hand and/or power tools, jigs, and saws.
Makes continuity checks on work in process and completed.
May conduct quality inspections on processing line in accordance with quality specifications.
May disassemble, modify, rework, reassemble, and test experimental or prototype assemblies and sub-assemblies according to specifications and under simulated conditions.
Work with blueprints, changes, specifications, work orders, etc. to assemble and install to quality requirements parts and assemblies.
Complete required data gathering transactions to facilitate assembly progression.
Setup and perform all manual and automated assembly operations, and portable machine functions required to accomplish assignments.
Perform any and all required pickup, rework, fabrication, change in corporation, functional testing or check during or after final assembly and/or assembly progression.
Move and/or obtain correct parts, materials, tools, assemblies, etc.
Use precision measuring instruments required to accomplish work assignments.
Report and/or investigate job handicaps such as: errors in parts, assembly procedures, tools, sequences, etc.
Perform routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties (e.g., where applicable, replacing machine filters, changing standard light bulbs on machines and equipment, maintaining lubrication/coolant levels, etc. as related to basic Total Preventative Maintenance duties).
Routinely move product within the immediate manufacturing work area, including across isle, using shop assigned equipment as required, and complete transactions necessary to move product to the next operation.
On an exception basis, move product to the next operation within a building.
Support the continuous flow of product within the manufacturing process by training, coaching and assisting other employees.
Document any discrepancies according to specification, process, and procedure.
Trains to become MVP qualified.
Complete other duties and responsibilities as required by leadership (on occasion).

Benefits

Competitive pay
Incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
Retirement savings plan
Ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
Paid time off including personal time
Holidays
Paid parental leave program
Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability
Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”)
Other supplemental benefit coverages
Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University
Unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path
Opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes
Both national and international mobility
Relocation assistance for qualified positions
Comprehensive compensation and benefits package