SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT) TITLE 32

Sheet Metal Mechanic (Aircraft) Title 32

As a SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT) TITLE 32, WG-3806-5/8/10, you will perform sheet metal maintenance on aircraft and components. Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:

• Repair cracks in aircraft skin.
• Fabricate and fit patches to damaged areas as necessary to retain or restore original strength.
• Install regular, heat-treated, high shear, and blind type aircraft rivets and fasteners by using pneumatic riveters, bucking bars and other special tools.
• Remove, fabricate, repair, modify, and install parts and assemblies, such as frames, stringers, longerons, bulkheads, beams, ribs, spars, skin, cowling, brackets, fairing, stressed and double contour skins using hand or powered tools and a variety of metal working equipment.
• Inspect and troubleshoot aircraft structures such as fuselage, tail, wings, cowlings and stabilizers.
• Fit and trim components to aircraft such as loading gear doors, ailerons, flaps, engine access doors and similar assemblies.
• Devise and calculate patterns employing the principles of triangulation, radial, and parallel line development.
• Align component structures and airframe using precision optical measuring instruments, plumline and level.
• Perform metal to metal bonding where delamination of surfaces or core material occurs.
• Inspect for corrosion conditions which are eliminated by chemical treatment or material replacement.
• Inspect, repair, fabricate and replace honeycomb and fiberglass structural assemblies.
• Set up, operate and maintain power shears, metal brakes, rolls, dimpling machines, drills, saws, heat-treating furnaces, hardness testers, arc and oxyacetalene welders and other metal working equipment and tools of the trade.
• Prepare and design layout, dies, jigs, and templates necessary to carry out fabrication, repair or modification of aircraft, general support equipment and facility support equipment.

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