SkillBridge: Tooling Maintenance Technician

About the role

Airbus Aerosystems is seeking a Maintenance Technician - Tooling to join our Production department based in Kinston, NC. This role is part of Airbus's SkillBridge program, designed for transitioning service members to work in a high-precision aerospace environment.

Responsibilities

• Dismantles, moves, assembles, installs, and repairs industrial machinery and equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, drawings, or verbal instructions.
• Dismantles equipment and machines using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
• Moves machinery and equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
• Assembles and installs equipment such as conveyors and tram rails using hand and power tools.
• Constructs foundations; aligns machines; performs scheduled inspection and maintenance.
• Sets up and operates machine tools and fabrication machinery to rework or make new parts.
• Performs root/cause analysis in support of reliability processes, and collaborates with vendors, engineering, team leader, customer, other crafts and management to solve equipment problems and develop corrective action.
• Reworks and maintains tools of all types and materials.
• Performs routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties (e.g., replacing machine filters, changing standard light bulbs on machines and equipment, maintaining lubrication/coolant levels, etc. as related to basic Total Preventative Maintenance duties).
• Repairs and builds of lay-up tools.
• Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
• Uses hand and power tools. Tests, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs machines and equipment.
• Uses PLC, CNC along with blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in a Production environment.
• Fluent in English.
• Team working mindset.
• Willing and able to work any shift.

Qualifications

• Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED.
• Move and place in the correct position heavy equipment, real property and installed property in accordance with established methods.
• Accomplish all necessary rigging.

Physical Requirements

• Onsite: 100%
• Daily Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer.
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor.
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice.
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
• Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site.
• Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

Other Duties as Assigned

• Perform routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties (e.g., replacing machine filters, changing standard light bulbs on machines and equipment, maintaining lubrication/coolant levels, etc. as related to basic Total Preventative Maintenance duties).
• Repairs and builds of lay-up tools.
• Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
• Uses hand and power tools. Tests, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs machines and equipment.
• Uses PLC, CNC along with blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.

Skills

• Proficiency in hand and power tools.
• Knowledge of PLC, CNC systems.
• Ability to perform root/cause analysis.
• Experience with machine tools and fabrication machinery.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Team-oriented approach.

Company

Airbus Aerosystems Kinston, Inc. is a subsidiary of Airbus and is dedicated to producing critical aircraft components in a high-precision aerospace environment. Airbus Aerosystems Kinston, Inc. is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Equal Opportunity

Airbus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes all applications. Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.