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The Aircraft Mechanic 1 - Sheetmetal - Maintenance fabricates, installs, and maintains in good repair the sheet-metal equipment and fixtures (such as machine guards, grease pans, shelves, lockers, tanks, ventilators, chutes, ducts, metal roofing) of an establishment.
Job Responsibility:
Fabricates, installs, and maintains sheet-metal equipment and fixtures
Plans and lays out all types of sheet-metal maintenance work from blueprints, models, or other specifications
Sets up and operates all available types of sheet-metal working machines
Uses a variety of hand tools in cutting, bending, forming, shaping, fitting, and assembling
Installs sheet-metal articles as required
Reads and analyzes work request and applicable specifications or similar work data
Develops and draws working sketches showing view, section, or profile
Manufactures and fabricates aircraft sheet metal parts, panels, doors, etc., from various serviced aircraft
Determines type and extent of repair or replacement required, type of material and repair methods to use
Lays out, cuts form, joins, assembles and installs items
Develops parts and templates from prints, drawings, or original parts to produce repair parts that are not readily available
Uses developed patterns/layouts, prefabricated templates or old part as a sample, scribes outline on sheet metal and cuts out scribed part using shears, Do-All saw and turret punch
Forms metal using cornice brake, punch press, drill press, and similar metal forming tools
Finish and smooth edges of metal sheet after cutting and assembles component sheet metal piece with rivets, screws, nuts, and bolts
Aligns, drills and reams material for installation of various types of riveting and taking precautions to protect dissimilar metals
Independently lays out template, transcribes information from template and manufactures double contour parts with configuration in several planes
Assembles and fastens fabricated parts by installing bolts, rivets, screws and/or seaming
Ensures finished aircraft parts meet quality standards for soundness, strength, appearance in accordance with specification and/or similar requirements
Employee may be required to work inside fuel tanks or other confined spaces
Follows all safety procedures and for using appropriate personal protective equipment to include checking protective devices for proper operation and maintains a safe clean work environment
Requirements:
Valid up-to-date A&P license
If no A&P license, shall have three (3) years aviation maintenance experience, two (2) years rotary wing aircraft experience, and two (2) years on the assigned (MDS) Sheetmetal
All experience must be within the six (6) most recent years
Must be able to obtain and maintain facility credentials/authorization
US Citizenship is required for a facility credentials/authorization at the work location
Tools are Required
must possess own shadowed/etched tools & toolbox
Nice to have:
High School Diploma
Two (2) or more years of actual experience in the repair, modification, maintenance, and overhaul of aircraft