Senior Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician - H125 FAL

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Senior Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician to join our H125 team based in Columbus, MS.

You will be part of the team to perform detailed sheetmetal modifications and repairs on airframes or parts as assigned by the lead technician. Tasks include assembly, fabrication and installation of sheetmetal components or aircraft parts and composite/repair of helicopters to support the delivery schedule.

Meet the Team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your Working Environment:

On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

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Your Challenges:

1. Installations/Modifications/Repairs: 90%

• Performs sheet metal installations, modifications, and repairs on Airbus Helicopters airframes.
• Performs installations of major and minor modifications per STC instructions.
• Performs cutting, joining and clearance of sheet metal structure per design drawing and standard practices.
• Prepares patterns and/or templates to simplify installation processes and assure proper dimensions.
• Ensures that installations are attached without endangering aircraft structure or systems operation and function.
• Makes adjustments to latches, windows, cowlings and covers.
• Using engineering blueprints, installs prototype parts and close tolerance materials to print for certification purposes.
• Performs sealing of installations ensuring sealant installations meet quality guidelines for both form and function.
• Performs adjustments to ensure fit on new installations and modifications.
• Uses a variety of standard and specialized hand tools, power equipment, measuring devices and test equipment in completing work assignments.
• Creates help tools and jigs to make installations repeatable and easier for lower level technicians.
• Manufactures doublers and small parts as necessary.

2. Reporting/Cleanup: 10%

• Uses Fiche Techniques, Technical and associated approved documentation, MES, and SAP. Ability to read blueprints, drawings, parts lists, fiche techniques, and technical documentation as required.
• Understands service bulletins, inspection reports, and other technical data as required.
• Refers to documentation (electronic/paper) for proper guidance to perform all tasks required.
• Documents labor efforts in MES, SAP, and paper requirements as necessary.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Minimum (6) years of sheet metal installation and/or sheet metal repair experience on aircraft.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, and diagrams, and apply standard shop practices in the fabrication and repair modifications of aircraft structures.
• Current Airframe or Powerplant license or applicable trade school is a plus but not required.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite or remote: 90% Onsite.
• Vision: Able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment, as well as read documents, reports, and engineering drawings.
• Hearing: Able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
• Speaking: Able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information, and participate in communications.
• Equipment Operation: Able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment, some tools, including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
• Carrying: Able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Lifting: Able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Pushing/Pulling: Able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
• Sitting: Able to sit for long periods in meetings or while working on a computer.
• Squatting/Kneeling: Able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
• Standing: Able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor.
• Walking: Able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
• Personal Protective Equipment: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required.
• Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits; appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required.

Citizenship:

• Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license).

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