Job Duties
As a structures mechanic, you will:
- Fabricate, install, and modify sheet metal and structural components in accordance with engineering drawings, specifications, service letters, structural repair manuals, maintenance manuals, and AC43-13 standards.
- Collaborate with the inspection department to ensure all work meets airworthiness requirements.
- Accurately document and sign off daily maintenance activities on repair station discrepancy sheets and checklists.
- Read and interpret manufacturer and STC holder manuals, service bulletins, technical data, and engineering specifications to determine methods for altering, repairing, or replacing aircraft components.
- Perform a variety of aircraft maintenance tasks as needed to support operations.
Job Qualifications
Education, Experience and Credentials
- High school graduate or GED required.
- Strong aluminum structures experience required.
- Expertise in working with hand tools, sheet metal shop tools and common metal shop tasks. Ability to understand, interpret and follow specifications as defined by drawings or instructions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to meet FAA regulatory and safety requirements in all aspects of the work.
- Comply with drug testing requirements in compliance with federal regulations.
- Must be able to use hand tools, including wrenches, hammers, power tools, and other tools used in testing aircraft and parts.
- Must have all required tools to perform job. (Client will provide tool list)
- Must comply with our clients FOD prevention plan.
- Perform general arithmetic calculations such as: add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Able to compute rate, ratio, and percent. Read and interpret various measuring devices.
- Works as an effective and proactive team-player; exhibits flexibility and switches priorities in work duties while maintaining a positive attitude; comprehends and explains the importance of supporting the organization, customers, and other employees.
- Plans, prioritizes, coordinates, and manages work in a moderately fast-paced environment. Works with minimal supervision; solves basic problems effectively and creatively.
- Displays high levels of customer service, responding promptly and thoroughly to the inquiries and needs of individuals both internal and external to the organization.
- Exhibits professional knowledge, proficiency, and initiative in achieving goals and meeting company standards.
- Understand, speak, and effectively communicate in the English language, including oral and written instructions, to communicate with people inside and outside the organization.
- Explains processes and procedures effectively and accurately.
- Exhibits high levels of mechanical aptitude using hand tools and power equipment.
- Stand, squat, reach, kneel, bend, and twist/turn for extended periods of time and perform long hours of work in the shop and hangar, repairing and maintaining aircraft.
- Move around the shop and hangar area repeatedly throughout the day.
- Stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Use close vision to see small parts and review detailed information, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Facility Description
Our client is most often known as being the leading designer and manufacturer of fixed wing floats. They offer a long list of the industry’s finest performance enhancing modifications and factory upgrades for a variety of aircraft.
Benefits
As an employee of Strom Aviation, you will receive benefits including holiday pay, longevity pay, access to a 401K program and insurance coverage (medical, dental, life, disability). We offer travel pay, bonuses, and other incentives for some positions as well. A referral is the best compliment we can get, and Strom Aviation offers 2 different referral programs for our employees.
Our recruiters strive to connect qualified individuals with opportunities. With hundreds of jobs across the nation, Strom offers opportunities no matter where you are.
Pay
Pay Range: $25.95-$42.92
Typical Gross Weekly Take Home (for a full work week): $1,038.00-$1,716.80