SHEET METAL MECHANIC LEADER
Naval Air Systems Command
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SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT)
Air National Guard Units
Department of the Air Force
Location
Syracuse, New York
Salary
$31.62 - $36.88
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves inspecting, repairing, modifying, and installing sheet metal and other structural parts on aircraft, missiles, and related ground equipment in the Air National Guard.
Workers also handle treatments like painting and washing to keep everything in top condition.
It's a great fit for hands-on mechanics with experience in metalwork who enjoy working on military aircraft and are comfortable in a structured team environment.
Key Requirements
- At least 18 months of specialized experience in planning, layout, and construction of sheet metal items with complex seams like dovetailed or lock seams
- Proficiency in using complicated shop tools, equipment, and measuring instruments for precise work
- Hands-on experience working with metals such as stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb materials, and alloys
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations for measurements and layouts in sheet metal fabrication
- Skills in inspection, repair, modification, installation, and troubleshooting of sheet metal, fiberglass, and bonded honeycomb structural components
- Experience with mechanical and chemical treatments, painting, and washing of aircraft, missiles, and Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE)
- Eligibility for National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service as an Enlisted member
Full Job Description
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT), Position Description Number D1371000 and is part of the 174TH ATKW, National Guard.
This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.
Military Grades: Enlisted 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: At least 18 months 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. Major Duties:
- As a SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT) (WG-3806-10) you will accomplish the inspection, repair, modification, installation and troubleshooting of sheet metal, fiberglass, bonded honeycomb and other structural materials and components as well as treatment (i.e., mechanical and chemical), and painting of missiles, aircraft powered and nonpowered Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE), and monitoring aircraft and equipment washing.
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