Structural Repair Technician- Lead

Overview

This role is at Spirit Aero Systems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units(“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Summary: Perform repairs in a FAA approved Repair Station, working to structural repair manuals, component maintenance manuals and aircraft maintenance manuals, as well as other approved repair instructions from the manufacturer or customer.

Location: Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Supervise, mentor, and train junior technicians, conduct performance audits, and foster a team environment.
• Coordinate with evaluation inspection to diagnose damage and recommend repair schemes in accordance with maintenance manuals to return units to service timely and efficiently.
• Work with Operations Manager to set production goals, prioritize work, manage schedules, ensure efficient work-flow including optimizing indirect work
• Align with supply chain to ensure material availability to complete repairs including identifying low inventory, bill of material delivery from the stockroom, and supplier shortages.
• Enforce safety protocols and quality compliance policies and procedures are implemented for the work cell.
• Participate with customer service to resolve customer conflicts, maintain current ship dates for finished work, and estimate hours of completion for quote accuracy.
• Team with others to perform maintenance, repair and overhauls to a wide variety of structural and non-structural fiberglass, acrylic and other composite and metal parts, and nacelle assemblies.
• Work from approved repair manuals and documents, process specifications, quality control requirements, drawings and established processes and procedures, to assure the timely delivery of quality products to the customer.
• Perform multi-tasking and multi-machine operation where applicable.
• The company will provide appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform all necessary repair job functions including utilizing lay-up tools, which include both optical and hard tools, in the repair and rework of composite assemblies.
• Obtain required information from maintenance manuals, prints, charts, sketches, work orders, documents, verbal and electronic information.
• Use shop mathematics and precision measuring instruments to complete work assignments.
• Familiarity with metric system required.
• Must verify work performed is per work instruction and meets process-and/or engineering specification.
• Ensure equipment and tool certification occurs per procedure.
• Use and control of solvents and cleaning solutions in the preparation of details, tools, and assemblies for bonding and finishing per established procedures.
• May be required to perform touch-up and finishing applications.
• Perform routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties (e.g., replacing machine filters, changing standard light bulbs on machines and equipment, maintaining lubrication/coolant levels, etc. as related to basic Total Preventative Maintenance duties).
• Routinely move product within the Repair Station work area using shop assigned equipment as required.
• Support the continuous flow of product within the maintenance, repair, and overhaul process by training and assisting employees at all classification levels.
• Airframe license preferred or willingness to pursue FAA Part 65 certification, (Repairman's certificate or Airframe license).
• Experience working with maintenance and repair documents such as aircraft maintenance manuals (AMM's), structural repair manuals(SRM's), and component maintenance manuals (CMM's), service bulletins, service letters, and Airworthiness Directives.
• Willingness to travel, domestically and internationally, on short notice, for long periods of time, to support customer maintenance requirements or Spirit…