Blades Aircraft Technician A

Airbus Helicopters, Inc.; Grand Prairie (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Profit sharing potential

ESOP participation

Paid time off and parental leave

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Airbus Helicopters, Inc. in Grand Prairie, TX, is seeking a Blades Aircraft Technician A to support the blades repair team. The role involves tear down, cleaning, inspection, repair, assembly and closeout of blade components to ensure a high-quality product.

Responsibilities include following procedures, coordinating with the lead on schedules and parts, and maintaining documentation per quality gates and customer specs, with emphasis on safety and compliance at every step.

Qualifications

• Ability to tear down, clean, inspect, repair and assemble blade components.
• Prepare and perform repair techniques for return to service of blade parts.
• Maintain documentation and ensure work meets customer specifications and FAA requirements.

Responsibilities

• Tear down, clean, inspect, repair, assemble and closeout blade components.
• Maintain close relationships with lead for schedules and parts availability.
• Ensure work complies with manuals, blueprints, and RDAS.

Skills

Blade repair

Inspection

Quality assurance

Hand tools

FAA regulations

Job description

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Blades Aircraft Technician A to join our Blades Repair team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

Your duties will consist of fully understanding the methods and procedures to perform the following functions: Incoming inspections, execute repair tasks and final completion procedures on Airbus Helicopters, Inc. Blade Components. Team members will be expected to ensure a quality product.

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

Technical: Tear Down, Clean, Inspect, Repair, Assemble and Closeout Components: 80%

• Tear down, clean, inspect, repair, assemble and closeout components
• Maintain a close working relationship with assigned lead regarding schedules, priorities, and availability of parts, supplies and tools.
• Clear understanding of methods and procedures on incoming inspections.
• Able to effectively utilize all hand tools needed to execute inspection and repairs.
• Skilled on cleaning and stripping when required performing the repairs on blade components.
• Able to prepare and perform repair techniques for return to service of piece parts.
• Capable of assembly of finished products.
• Skilled on closing out all final paper work and quality gates for QA creation of 8130-3.
• Ensures completed work complies with customer specifications, FAA regulations, manufacturer's applicable
• maintenance manuals, blueprints, RDAS, etc.
• Maintain responsibility to ensure personal scrap levels are kept at a minimum.

Customer Interface: 5%

• Correctly identifies customers (internal and external) and understands their requirements proactively.
• Looks through the eyes of the customers and goes the extra mile to serve them.
• Enthusiastic to support others and achieve agreed levels of service.
• Thinks business/customer interests rather than local/individual interest.

Logistics: 5%

• When aware of issues, speak up early and make them visible.
• Sees challenges as opportunities for improvement.
• Listens respectfully and shows appreciation when direction is given by a higher level team member.
• Takes the necessary time to question the root causes.

Accountability: 5%

• Ensures own role and responsibilities are clear.
• Takes relevant decisions at their own level and ownership for their implementation.
• Sticks to commitments on time/cost/quality.
• Announce as early as possible when commitments cannot be kept.

Objectives: 5%

• Knows, applies and promotes agreed standards