SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT)

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Position Description

***ACCESS TO MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE IN JAPAN IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. Please see Additional Information section below.*** You will serve as a Sheet Metal Mechanic in the MRO Production Department of FRC WESTPAC DET OKINAWA.

Position Duties/Responsibilities

  • You will perform a full range of skills from repair to manufacture of parts and repair all type U.S. Navy and Marine aircraft.
  • You will assist engineering personnel and independently develop and construct one-of-a kind prototype repairs utilizing various methods for developing complex templates and patterns.
  • You will develop and layout templates using a variety of methods of contour delineation, aircraft lofting techniques, and triangulation using the fewest seams and least amount of material.
  • You will use work orders, instructions, technical specifications, orders, and blueprints, etc., where situations are often tentative and must be extended to cover
  • You will complete repairs and repairing aerospace systems by riveting, bolting, spot welding, screwing, etc.
  • You will disassemble, modify, repair, and reassemble complex aircraft metal items and systems, e.g., bulkheads, air frames spars, air scoops, wings, flaps, pylons, sponsons, fuselages, skins, ribs, gussets.
  • You will repair a variety of aerospace fuel cells using standard and/or unique procedures.
  • You will perform corrosion control on aircraft and parts finishing in accordance with command policy and other engineering approved processes.

Minimum Salary

30.5

Maximum Salary

35.58