Machinist

Machinist Job Highlights

Company Profile

StandardAero is one of the largest independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. The company provides services that include engine and airframe maintenance, repair and overhaul, engine component repair, engineering services, interior completions, and paint applications.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Machinist who will perform setup, calibration, maintenance, and operation of machining equipment, including computer numerically controlled equipment, to make complex precise cuts, bends, alignments, and forms of requisite materials.

Cross-trains in other complementary skills as needed to support production requirements.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have completed a High School Graduation and Diploma Training program at a college or technical school

Work Experience

• Possess work-related experience (a plus)

Duties/Responsibilities

Immune-Specific Duties-

• Participates in proactive risk analysis of flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Recognizes and understands flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Recognizes and understands the Just Culture policy.
• Responsible for immediately reporting flight/product safety concerns.

Specific Duties-

• Adjusts and sets up machine tools for use by machining tool operators.
• Computes dimensions and tolerances and measures and lays out work pieces.
• Cross-trains in other complementary skills and seeks endorsements for those skills as needed to support production requirements.
• Moves between production assignments that utilize multiple skills endorsements as needed to support production requirements.
• Participates in continuous improvement of cell processes.
• Participates in the cross-training of other technicians as needed to support production requirements.
• Performs setup, calibration, maintenance, programming, and operation on a variety of machining equipment including lathes, brakes, shears, grinders, drill presses, milling machines, computer numerically controlled and hydraulic presses to assemble or fabricate parts, and complex assemblies.
• Reads and interprets specification manuals, blueprints, templates, and layouts to determine the machining operation to be performed.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety requirements and reporting immediately any unsafe practices/conditions.
• Verifies dimensions of products for accuracy and conformance to specifications using precision measuring instruments such as calipers, gauges, and micrometers. Troubleshoots, debugs, and modifies to achieve expected performance.
• Carries out other duties as assigned.

Technical Requirements

• Attainment of trade certification.
• Completion of a machinist apprenticeship program; or equivalent.
• A high degree of mechanical aptitude, accuracy, and precision.
• Proficient in the use of precision measuring instruments and hand tools.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing, tool design, fabrication methods and processes, metallurgy, and heat treating.
• Working knowledge of production management computer systems and other related internal control systems.
• Working knowledge of related company instructions, company processes, rework process instructions, original equipment manufacturer manuals, and MSDS labels.
• Working knowledge of welding, hydraulics, electricity, and pneumatics.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds (unassisted) for approximately 25% of the average work day.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret blueprints.
• Ability to understand, utilize and communicate specialized information in speech and written text.
• Regularly required to stand for prolonged periods.
• Strong mathematical aptitude.
• Must meet US person requirements per ITAR.

Benefits/Perks

• A clean, safe, and temperature-controlled work environment
• A variety of shifts and hours
• An opportunity to work with a variety of aircraft engines
• Competitive compensation structures and a total rewards package
• Opportunities for horizontal and vertical movement within the organization

Employer’s Statement

StandardAero is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not discriminate against anyone for employment because of race, color, sex, pregnancy, age, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, and basis of disability status or any other federal, state or local protected class.