About The Position

Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment for general aviation aircraft. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces.

Requirements

  • High school diploma, an equivalent certificate, or a bronze level WorkKeys certification.
  • A minimum of 3 years of diversified aviation sheet metal experience.
  • Aircraft structure repair manuals.
  • Skilled in identifying types of corrosions.
  • Skilled in corrosion removal procedures.
  • Skilled in the application and removal of wash etch and alodine material.
  • Skilled in the application of primer.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain an airport security badge through the local airport authority, if applicable.
  • Must be eligible to meet any requirements to access controlled information under U.S. export control laws and regulations.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with FAA AC 43.13-1B preferred.
  • Experience preferred with rivets, bolts, screws, and nuts and washers.

Responsibilities

  • Determine project requirements, including scope, assembly sequences, and required methods and materials, according to blueprints, and written and verbal instructions.
  • Lay out of sheet metal parts using blueprints, drawings, written or verbal instructions
  • Alter and existing part using blueprints, drawings, written or verbal instructions.
  • Rivet and sheet metal component removal.
  • Bend and form a radius on fabricated sheet metal parts.
  • Drill various metals.
  • Debur holes and cut lines.
  • Set up for and countersinking of holes.
  • Set up for and dimpling of holes.
  • Set up for and install solid rivets with a rivet gun.
  • Set up for and install solid rivets with a squeeze tool.
  • Install blind rivets and fasteners.
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