What are the responsibilities and job description for the sheet metal mechanic position at Air National Guard Units?
Job Summary
This is a Sheet Metal Mechanic (Aircraft) position with the Washington Air National Guard. The selected individual will work as a Bargaining Unit Technician in a Title 32 Excepted Service position.
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for inspecting aircraft, determining the nature and extent of repairs, and working directly on the aircraft to remove, repair, modify, and install parts and assemblies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Determining shear and bearing load factors during rivet replacement
- Installing heads up, regular, heat treated, high shear, and blind type aircraft rivets and fasteners
- Removing damaged or broken fasteners and receptacles
- Aligning and balancing component structures and airframe using precision measuring instruments and levels
- Performing metal-to-metal bonding where delamination of surfaces and core material occurs in control surfaces
Requirements
To be eligible for this position, applicants must have at least 18 months of experience or training in planning, layout, and construction skills to manufacture items and systems with dovetailed seams, set-in-bottom seams, burred-bottom seams, or wired or lock seams.
Air National Guard Units are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
This is an indefinite position. If an individual employed in the excepted civil service accepts this position, he/she will receive an indefinite appointment. If a Reduction-In-Force occurs the indefinite appointee will have no reemployment rights to his/her former position or any other position.
