Aircraft Sheetmetal Mechanic I

About the role

The Aircraft Sheetmetal Mechanic I fabricates, installs and maintains sheet-metal equipment and fixtures such as machine guards, grease pans, shelves, lockers, tanks, ventilators, chutes, ducts and metal roofing. The work covers planning and laying out sheet-metal maintenance from blueprints or models, setting up and operating sheet-metal machines, and using hand tools to cut, bend, form, fit and assemble parts. The employee may work inside fuel tanks or other confined spaces.

Key responsibilities

• Read and analyze work requests and specifications, develop working sketches and manufacture aircraft sheet-metal parts, panels and doors from serviced aircraft.
• Determine the type and extent of repair or replacement, then lay out, cut, join, assemble and install items.
• Develop parts and templates from prints, drawings or original parts, and use patterns, templates or old parts as samples.
• Form metal with cornice brakes, punch presses and drill presses, and finish edges before assembling with rivets, screws, nuts and bolts.
• Apply protective compounds, insulating tape, plastic cement and fiberglass resins, and ensure finished parts meet quality standards.
• Work safely, follow procedures, wear PPE and maintain a clean work environment.

Required profile

• Valid up-to-date A&P license, or three years of aviation maintenance experience including two years on rotary-wing aircraft and two years on the assigned MDS (sheetmetal).
• Ability to obtain and maintain facility credentials; US citizenship is required for facility authorization.
• Own shadowed/etched tools and toolbox; two or more years of recent aircraft repair, modification, maintenance and overhaul experience preferred.
• Physical ability to stand, climb, lift up to 50 pounds, work in a drafty, noisy, dirty shop and pass a respirator fit test.

Required skills

• Aircraft mechanical troubleshooting, repair procedures and part replacement.
• Sheet metal and structural modifications and repair.
• Basic electrical theory and knowledge of aircraft tools such as torque wrenches, dial indicators, micrometers, sheet metal brakes and shears.
• Technical publications and logistics information systems.

What we offer

• Pay of $37.83 per hour.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and holidays.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching, educational reimbursement, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.