About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
Plans, lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal parts, equipment, and products.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Applies fundamental principles and concepts. Performs the more routine aspects and progresses to more varied and complex activities with development of additional knowledge and experience in the subject matter. Participates in subject matter training as required to gain complex skills.
Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of fabricating, assembling, and installing sheet metal products.
Lays out and marks dimensions and reference lines on material to develop and trace patterns of product or parts, or uses templates.
Sets up and operates fabricating machines such as shears, brakes, presses, forming rolls, and routers, to cut, bend, block and form, or straighten materials.
Shapes metal material over anvil, block, or other form.
Trims, files, grinds, deburrs, buffs, and smooths surfaces.
Welds, solders, bolts, rivets, screws, clips, caulks, or bonds component parts to assemble products.
Installs assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints.