SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT)

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION THAT REQUIRES MILITARY MEMBERSHIP.

This National Guard position is for a SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT), Position Description Number PDD1371000 and is part of the Mississippi National Guard.

Qualifications:

NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED: This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the National Guard. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.

MILITARY MEMBERS WITH BONUSES: Upon acceptance of a military technician position military members who are currently receiving a military Reenlistment/Extension Bonus (REB) or GI Bill-SR Kicker may lose incentive eligibility and may be subject to termination or suspension of incentive (includes indefinite and temporary technicians on assignment for more than 180 days in any continuous 12-month period).

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience or training that has provided the candidate with the ability to plan, manufacture, and install cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastenings such as single and double-hem edges and single, double or grooved seams.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 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. Experience using more complicated shop tools and equipment. Experience in using metals including stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material and alloys. Experience demonstrating the use of more complicated mathematical calculations and complicated measuring instruments.

If your resume does not include a narrative description of how you meet the GENERAL, SPECIALIZED experiences, and OTHER requirements, you may lose consideration for this position. Ensure that the Questionnaire is completed online in Application Manager.

NOTES TO CANDIDATES:

a. Situations of inversion of military rank are not permitted, i.e., a military technician may not be militarily senior to his or her full-time supervisor.

b. Candidates may be screened and evaluated on military attributes directly related to the compatible military position required to be assigned into, such as, but not limited to, military bearing, leadership, or ability to work with others (teamwork) in a military environment.

c. Include any volunteer work experience in your resume. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

d. Final selection will be based upon qualifications, suitability, and available manpower resources.

e. This employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

f. Multiple vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

g. If this announcement results in a temporary promotion for the selectee, it may become permanent at any time without further competition dependent on funding and manpower requirements.

Responsibilities:

As a SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT), WG-3806-10, you will perform inspection, repair, modification, installation and troubleshooting ofsheet metal, fiberglass, bonded honeycomb and other structuralmaterials and components as well as treatment (i.e., mechanical andchemical), and painting of missiles, aircraft powered and nonpoweredAerospace Ground Equipment (AGE), and monitoring aircraft and equipment washing.

DUTIES:
1. Independently inspects aircraft and determines the natureand extent of repairs to be made, using applicable technical orders asguidelines. Works directly on the aircraft and its components,fulfilling such tasks as removal, repair, modification and installationof parts and assemblies, such as frames, stringers, longerons,bulkheads, beams, ribs, spars, skin, cowling, brackets, faring, accessdoors, panels and other related items. May be required to clear red"X" conditions.

2. Repairs cracks in aircraft skin. Fabricates and fitspatches to damaged areas, determining repair detail necessary to retainor restore original strength. Fits and trims components to aircraftsuch as landing gear doors, control surfaces, flaps access doors andother assemblies. Seals structures to make them pressure, water andweather tight.

3. Troubleshoots aircraft structural repair situations insuch areas as fuselage, tails, wings, cowlings, and stabilizers.Removes, forms, fits, and installs highly stressed and double contouredskins, using hand or powered drilling and cutting tools and other metalworking equipment. Determines shear and bearing load factors duringrivet replacement. Installs heads up, regular, heat treated, highshear, and blind type aircraft rivets and fasteners, using pneumaticriveters, special tools and bucking bars. Removes damaged or brokenfasteners and receptacles.

4. Aligns and balances component structures and airframeusing precision measuring instruments and levels. Performs metal-to-metalbonding where delamination of surfaces and core material occursin control surfaces.

5. Inspects damage or deterioration and determines repair orreplacement of plastic, fiberglass, composites, bonded structures, andbonded honeycomb assemblies using powered and nonpowered tools andequipment. Repairs or replaces retaining frames and installs plasticlaminated blanks. Designs and constructs forming fixtures.

6. Manufactures and ensures that metal tubing, conduits andcables are fabricated and tested in accordance with drawings andspecifications. Fabricates and repairs flexible control cables.

7. Performs fabrication of local manufactured items requitedfor aircraft and equipment. Work includes layout, bending, cutting,forming and assembling. Devise and calculates patterns employing theprinciples of triangulation, radial and parallel line development.

8. Sets up and operates power shears, brakes, rolls,dimpling machines, drill presses, saws, portable powered tools,specific detection and measuring equipment, and other metal workingequipment, including use of other tools of the trade. Requisitionsnecessary supplies and equipment for the activity.

9. Prepares and designs layout, dies, jigs, and templatesnecessary to carry out fabrication repair or modification of aircraft,engine, AGE, and other equipment. Works from blueprints, technicalorders diagrams, and work orders.

10. Identifies metal corrosion. Performs necessary testingto identify type corrosion present by examination with magnifyingequipment, chemical and mechanical methods and treats aircraft engines,in accordance with applicable technical publications. Ensures thatwork assignments received from supervisor or maintenance control areaccomplished in a timely manner.

11. Removes corrosion by mechanical and chemical proceduresto include use of portable powered (electric and pneumatic) sanders,buffers, brushes, bead blasters, vacuum cleaners, scrapers, grinders,acids, caustics, solvents, alcohols and other agents used in corrosioncontrol processes. Treats metal with chemical procedures, such asacids and caustics for passivation and etching, to protect metal fromoxidation. Performs such functions as pickling of metals to preparefor good bonding with primer coat of protective materials.

12. Applies protective coatings, markings, and decals afterproper removal of corrosion and treatment of metals. Uses conventionalpaint spray equipment, electrostatic spray equipment, brushes andspecial applicators when applying primers and surface coatings.

13. Identifies, blends, stores, controls, and disposes ofhazardous materials such as acids, caustics, alcohols, solvents,cleaners, primers and surface coatings used for corrosion removal,treatment and protection in accordance with applicable directives.

14. Performs other duties as assigned.