Aircraft Composite Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Must be willing to travel/temporarily relocate to Kinston, NC.

• Paid Travel and lodging assistance available.
• Long and Short-Term Contracts.
• Immediate placement.
• PTO.
• Paid Holidays.
• Health Benefit.

Description:
The Composite Technician will be responsible for composite layup, trimming, drilling, and other assembly tasks related to the production of aerospace components. You will play a key role in ensuring high-quality composite fabrication that supports our continued innovation in aerospace manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lays out, assembles, pre-fits, and bonds a variety of metal, composite or laminate fabrications, assemblies, parts, skins or equipment.
• Follows engineering and manufacturing specifications and orders to determine parts to be bonded and the temperature and pressure required.
• Cuts parts or materials to size. 
• Operates autoclave, hydraulic presses and ovens to complete the bonding cycle. 
• Sands, burrs and smoothes over areas.
• Applies sealing resins to cut or exposed edges. 
• Process methods and sequences vary depending on compounds, contours and lay-up transitions. 
• May perform complicated rework or repair. May monitor and verify quality in accordance with controlled procedures.
• Utilize lay-up tools, which include both optical and hard tools, in the fabrication of composite and metal assemblies.
• Obtain required information from prints, charts, sketches, work orders, documents, verbal and electronic information.
• Use shop mathematics and precision measuring instruments to complete work assignments.
• Must verify work performed is per work instruction and meets process and/or engineering specification.
• Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.
• Use and control of solvents and cleaning solutions in the preparation of details, tools, and assemblies for bonding and paint per established procedures.
• Perform routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties.
• Support the continuous flow of product within the manufacturing process by training and assisting employees at all classification levels.

Experience:

• 2 years of aerospace composite experience.
• Previous experience with lay-ups, assembling, pre-fitting, and bonding a variety of metal, composite or laminate fabrications, assemblies, parts, skins or equipment.