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About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Purpose of Position

Plans, lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal parts, equipment, and products.

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Applies fundamental principles and concepts.
• Performs the more routine aspects and progresses to more varied and complex activities with development of additional knowledge and experience in the subject matter.
• Participates in subject matter training as required to gain complex skills.
• Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of fabricating, assembling, and installing sheet metal products.
• Lays out and marks dimensions and reference lines on material to develop and trace patterns of product or parts, or uses templates.
• Sets up and operates fabricating machines such as shears, brakes, presses, forming rolls, and routers, to cut, bend, block and form, or straighten materials.
• Shapes metal material over anvil, block, or other form.
• Trims, files, grinds, deburrs, buffs, and smooths surfaces.
• Welds, solders, bolts, rivets, screws, clips, caulks, or bonds component parts to assemble products.
• Installs assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints.
• Inspects assemblies and installation for conformance to specifications. Repairs and maintains sheet metal products.
  
  

Minimum Education

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Minimum Experience

2 or more years of experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

PC knowledge, Microsoft word, excel, and data entry. Syteline and QMS familiarity desired.Experienced (aviation related preferred) in a shop environment using hand tools, wood and metal working equipment proficiently skilled in assembly or production enough to provide instruction to related practices. Standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and fax machines.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently left and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

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