General Summary:

The Fabrication Technician plans, layouts, assembles installs, and repairs sheet metal and machined parts, equipment, and products. *This is a Contingent position with our company (1-year or longer)*

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal products and equipment.
• Layouts and marks dimensions and reference lines on material using scribers, dividers, squares, and rulers.
• Sets up and operates fabrication machines, such as CNC press break, CNC router table, CNC tube bender, bladder press, shrinking and stretching machines and power roller.
• Shapes metal material over anvil, block, or other form using hand tools.
• Trims, files, grinds, deburr, buffs, and smooth's surfaces using hand tools and portable power tools.
• Welds, solders, bolts, rivets, screws, clips, caulks, or bonds component parts to assemble products, using hand tools, power tools, and equipment.
• Installs assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints, using hand tools, power tools, and lifting and handling devises.
• Able to pull models up in CATIA to flatten them out and create DXF files for the press break and router table.
• Able to operate the heat-treating furnace and oven.
• Inspects assemblies and installation for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, scales, dial indicators, gauges, micrometers and Faro Arm.
• Flexibility to work various schedules and open to overtime.

Education, Experience, Certification and/or Licensure:

• High School degree or equivalent required.
• Associate or trade school degree in welding and sheet metals or equivalent education strongly preferred.
• Aircraft experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, or production specifications.
• Strong oral and written communications.
• Strong knowledge of shop mathematics and layout techniques.
• Knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including designs, uses, benefits, repair and maintenance.
• Strong sheet metal skills required.
• Strong welding skills preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, and Lotus Notes) preferably.
• Experience with Team Center and CATIA.
• Knowledge of heat-treating aluminum alloys.

Physical Requirements:

• Incumbents may be routinely exposed to equipment operational noise heat-cold-dust, and/or aircraft equipment, parts, or fuel odors.
• Incumbents may be required to stand, sit, squat, walk, bend, climb ladders, move, reach, or stretch for prolonged time periods with no restrictions, as required by job duties.