Sheet Metal Mechanic (Aircraft)

Army National Guard Units • Boone, IA

4h • Onsite

About The Position

This position is a Title 32 Excepted Service Position within the Iowa Army National Guard, located at AASF 1, Boone, IA. It is restricted to current Military members of the Iowa Army National Guard. The role involves inspecting, troubleshooting, and repairing aircraft structures such as fuselage, tail, wings, cowlings, and stabilizers. Responsibilities include removing, fabricating, repairing, modifying, and installing various aircraft parts and assemblies using hand or powered tools and metalworking equipment. The job also entails fitting and trimming components, performing fabrication of local manufactured items, and working with blueprints, technical manuals, and diagrams. A thorough knowledge of ferrous and nonferrous metals, mechanical drawing, and shop mathematics is required. The position may also involve painting, stripping, stenciling, participating in safety programs, providing on-the-job training, assisting with material requisitioning, maintaining records, and potentially assisting in other repair shop functions or fire/crash/rescue duties.

Requirements

• Must be a current Military member of the Iowa Army National Guard.
• Must hold a compatible military assignment.
• Must be willing to wear the military uniform.
• Experience or training that has provided the candidate with the ability to plan, manufacture, and install cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastenings such as single and double-hem edges and single, double or grooved seams.
• Experience or training in planning, layout, and construction skills to manufacture items and systems with dovetailed seams, set-in-bottom seams, burred-bottom seams, or wired or lock seams.
• Experience using more complicated shop tools and equipment.
• Experience in using metals including stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material and alloys.
• Experience demonstrating the use of more complicated mathematical calculations and complicated measuring.
• Must have a thorough knowledge of ferrous and nonferrous metal and mechanical drawing and shop mathematics.

Nice To Haves

• May paint, strip or stencil aircraft and/or components.
• May assist in the requisitioning and identifying stock material, parts and equipment.
• May assist in other functions within the Component Repair Shop in the accomplishment of mission requirements.
• May assist authorized firefighters in the performance of fire/crash/rescue duties as required.

Responsibilities

• Inspects and troubleshoots aircraft structures such as fuselage, tail, wings, cowlings and stabilizers.
• Determines the nature and extent of repairs to be made using applicable Technical Manuals (TMs).
• Removes, fabricates, repairs, modifies, and installs parts and assemblies, such as frames, stringers, longerons, bulkheads, beams, ribs, spars, skin, cowling, brackets, fairing, stressed and double contour skins using hand or powered tools and a variety of metal working equipment.
• Fits and trims components to aircraft such as loading gear doors, ailerons, flaps, engine access doors and similar assemblies.
• Performs fabrication of local manufactured items required for facility support, including layout, bending, cutting, forming and assembling.
• Devises and calculates patterns employing the principles of triangulation, radial, and parallelling development.
• Aligns component structures and airframe using precision optical measuring instruments, plumb line and level.
• Repairs cracks in aircraft skin and fabricates and fits patches to damaged areas.
• Installs regular, heat-treated, high shear, and blind type aircraft rivets and fasteners.
• Performs metal to metal bonding where delamination of surfaces or core material occurs.
• Inspects for corrosion conditions which are eliminated by chemical treatment or material replacement.
• Inspects, repairs, fabricates and replaces honeycomb and fiberglass structural assemblies.
• Sets up, operates and maintains power shears, metal brakes, rolls, dimpling machines, drills, saws, heat-treating furnaces, hardness testers, arc and oxyacetylene welders and other metal working equipment and tools of the trade.
• Works from blueprints, technical manuals, diagrams and work orders.
• Prepares and designs layout, dies, jigs, and templates necessary to carry out fabrication, repair or modification of aircraft, general support equipment and facility support equipment.
• Participates in the safety program for the sheet metal function.
• Performs on-the-job training as required and evaluates training effectiveness.
• May assist in the requisitioning and identifying stock material, parts and equipment.
• Reviews and maintains applicable technical manuals and publications.
• Maintains records and makes proper entries on log book forms.
• May assist in other functions within the Component Repair Shop.
• May assist authorized firefighters in the performance of fire/crash/rescue duties as required.
• Performs other duties assigned.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed