Senior Aircraft Component Technician for Conventional or CNC
Gulfstream AerospaceAbout the role
Senior Aircraft Component Technician for Conventional or CNC in GAC Savannah
Unique Skills:
Shift:6:00 am to 4:30pm M-TH
At Gulfstream, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in inspiring and empowering every individual to reach their fullest potential. From workforce development and meaningful connections to a culture of trust, respect, and integrity, we invest in our employees so they can do their best work and achieve success together. Creating and delivering the world’s finest aviation experience starts with our people and when our people thrive, so does our mission.
The team the candidate will be working with supports both our Service Center (conventional machining) to Special Missions, to other build stages of the aircraft with part production. Mazatrol experience is a plus.Minimum of 6 years of experience.
Essential Functions:
- Setup Conventional and/or CNC machines to perform operations(Mills 3,4 and 5axis and/or lathes), computes angular dimensions where required, locates and lays out reference lines, center points, and lines.
- Determines the proper cutting tools required. to perform machining task.
- Selects the proper speed and feeds for conditions(conventional) .
- Performs complex machining tasks.
- Checks own work for conformance to specifications using precision measuring equipment.
- Assist and trains junior level machinist.
- Must be able to apply shop mathematics including trigonometry functions.
- Experience operating conventional machinery including drills, grinders, milling machines and lathes.
- Basic PC skills.
- Must be able to read and interpret blue prints, sketches,and cad models.
Education and Experience Requirements
Job Description
- Mastery of advanced skills, procedures, techniques, tools, materials and/or equipment, as appropriate to area of specialization. Duties and tasks reflect substantial variety and complexity.
- Showing superior technical skill and competence, perform, instruct, and oversee repair of mech and elect assemblies and subassemblies through removals, repair or replacement of defective parts and/or fabrication of replacement parts, and installations in accordance with blueprints, component maintenance manuals, vendor documents, verbal instructions, eng dispositions, and other authorized maintenance data. All activities to be in accordance with Repair Station requirements ensuring all parts and assemblies meet conformance.
- Set up and operate necessary test equipment in accordance with required. doc to perform functional and operational tests of mech and elect acft components for return to service or for initial cert for new products.
- Inspect all detail parts using blueprints, component and/or overhaul manuals and other required. maintenance data to ensure conformity requirements are met.
- Showing superior tech skill, remove skins and related components on flight controls and secondary structure components, locate and install/reinstall parts.
- Demonstrate mastery of repair techniques and concepts using acceptable practices including troubleshooting, soldering and application of protective coatings.
- Demonstrate expertise in use, maintenance, and calibration requirements of precision measuring and inspect tools.
- Maintain and utilize all required. paperwork in accordance with FAA Repair Station requirements.
- Mastery of shop material and component flow through via work orders in accordance with Repair Station requirements.
- Comply with all company and legislative environmental health and safety regs.
- Lay-out, remove, fabricate and/or install major and minor repairs to flight controls and
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