Blades Paint Senior Aircraft Technician

Airbus•Grand Prairie, TX

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Technician shall prepare blade components and surfaces for painting and perform the painting of the components and airframes IAW Airbus manufacturer procedures.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent experience.
Minimum of six (6) years of Painting and Paint preparation on metal and composite/fiberglass components.
Exceptional time management skills, ability to multi-task and handle high volume workloads.
Correctly understands customer requirements and AHI capabilities, enthusiastic to support others and achieve the highest level of customer service.
Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written form in English
Proficiency with all technical manuals per Paint Requirements on French and German blade components

Nice To Haves

Some trade school
Minimum of six (6) years of Painting and Paint preparation on metal and composite/fiberglass aircraft components.
Recognized expert in paint for aircraft blades.
Ability to train and foster team members.
Bi-lingual French or German
Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word) and SAP

Responsibilities

Prepare all surfaces for paint by sanding, masking, filling, washing and removal of dents
Apply corrosive preventative treatments, primers, and finish coats of special Material
Mix and/or tint paint as required
Perform layout of paint schemes as specified by the customer
Apply paint materials to all prepared surfaces according to manufacturer instructions
Complete Aircraft for customer acceptance by brush touch-up, cleaning striping lines and removal of overspray
Perform on a daily basis releasing and updating time sheet.
Sign off work clearly and legibly in a timely manner, using adequate description of work being performed.
All necessary blocks on the Discrepancy sheets need to be filled out as required.
Work needs to be signed off using correct referenced, AMM, Engineering Dispositions, and Repair Design Approval Sheets (RDAS).
Complete tool box audit sheets on a daily basis at the end of the shift.
Complete forms and records pertaining to completion of assigned work.
Other duties as assigned