Composite Fabricator

Fleet Readiness Center Southwest; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Fleet Readiness Center Southwest in San Diego conducts composite fabrication and repairs on critical flight components. The role requires fabricating and laying up composite material to exact specifications and ensuring adherence to technical directives.

You will determine tooling needs, analyze damage, and plan and execute the fabrication of advanced composite assemblies in close coordination with engineering, often with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Ability to perform composite fabrication work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to interpret technical directives and maintain dimensional tolerances.
• Experience using measurement tools to verify laminate lay-up.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate and lay up composite material to form skin panels or repair parts per directives.
• Determine tooling requirements for fabrication and repair of composites.
• Analyze damage to flight components to select repair configurations.
• Plan, layout, modify, fabricate and research advanced composite assemblies with minimal supervision.

Skills

Composite fabrication

Laminate lay-up

Tooling planning

Quality standards

Tools

Micrometers

Calipers

Ball gauges

Job description

• You will fabricate and lay up composite material to form composite skin panels or repair parts to dimensions and stacking order specified by technical directives.
• You will determine tooling requirements for fabrication of new assemblies as well as repair of composite assemblies.
• You will analyze damage to critical flight components and determine the type of repair configuration to be utilized.
• You will perform planning, layout, modification, fabrication and research of unconventional developmental advanced composite assemblies working in close coordination with engineering but with a minimal supervision.

Qualifications

Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying. Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the screen out listed below.

This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job. Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible. The Screen-out Element for this position is: ABILITY TO DO THE WORK OF an COMPOSITE FABRICATOR, WG-4352-10 without more than normal supervision such as:

• Developing and fabricating individual ply flat patterns to accurately position and orient each lamina within the laminate;
• Using flat patterns to cut individual plies from a variety of unidirectional advanced composite prepregnated;
• Fabricating and laying up composite material to form composite skin panels or repairs parts to dimensions and stacking order specified by technical directives;
• Adhering to and within acceptable standards using technical manuals, publications, TEIs, LESs, AFCs, LPSs, blue prints and 3R instructions; AND
• Utilizing cold working training practices i.e., using measuring equipment, micrometers, ball gauges, scales, no-go gauges and installation procedures for interference fit fasteners with (+.001) tolerance.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=WG-4300

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.