Interior Cabin Tech

About the Role

This is an ideal position for new graduates from Technical or A&P school, or individuals with less than 5 years of experience in heavy aircraft maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

• Removal, disassembly, cleaning, inspecting, repairing, and reinstalling aircraft cabin furnishings and equipment (galleys, lavatories, seats, overhead compartments, panels, carpeting).
• Repair, adjustments, and installation of aircraft seats.
• Reading and understanding blueprints, engineering documents, service bulletins, aircraft manuals, and catalogs.
• Performing complex cabin reconfigurations.
• Cleaning corrosion and treating metal surfaces per manufacturer instructions and specifications.
• Applying corrosion preventatives and understanding where corrosion inhibiting liquids may not be applied.
• Accomplishing simple sheet metal repairs or simple replacements of structural parts.
• Fabricating replacement covering, panels, or fairings using removed parts as samples.
• Understanding and practicing basic sealing procedures of aircraft structures.
• Identifying the locations of pressurized areas of the aircraft.
• Opening and closing aircraft areas required for inspection.
• Performing bonded repairs of honeycomb structures (may effect).
• Ensuring work performed meets FAA and customer standards.
• Maintaining a work area in an orderly and clean manner.
• Cleaning and removing any foreign objects generated during repairs.
• Recording time worked as directed by supervisor.
• Complying with all safety procedures and company policies.
• Attending work-related training as scheduled.
• Performing other tasks as reasonably assigned by supervisor.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• General knowledge of tools.
• Ability to read a micrometer, depth gauge, or dial calipers.
• Ability to identify interior fasteners and determine required grip lengths.
• Basic knowledge of installation methods.
• Understanding of basic sealing procedures of aircraft structures.
• Ability to identify the locations of pressurized areas of the aircraft.
• May effect bonded repairs of honeycomb structures.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in standard English.
• Ability to interface professionally with other AAR Aircraft Services employees and customers.
• General mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to comprehend and follow instructions.
• May or may not possess an A and/or P license.
• Must possess and skillfully use the minimum required tools.
• 1 to 3 years of aviation maintenance experience and/or be a new graduate of aviation technical or A&P school.
• Ability to learn.
• High school diploma or G.E.D. required.
• One year of aircraft sheet metal experience, preferred but not required.
• FAA Airframe license in good standing, preferred but not required.
• Some related maintenance experience, preferred.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

• Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, squat, twist, reach, lift, and move about the aircraft and facility.
• Warehouse/production setting; ability to adapt to a traditional warehouse/production environment.
• Periodic exposure to high levels of noise, dust, vibration, and chemical fumes.
• Able to lift fifty (50) pounds without mechanical assistance.
• Able to access and work in all areas of the aircraft, including confined areas.
• Able to climb on ladders and platforms and work at heights up to fifty feet.
• Able to work in extreme climatic conditions.