Composites Fabricator

Salary Range: $46,000.00-$78,000.00

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, education, skills, and experience as well as market demands. These factors impact the salary/wage offered.

Flight Safety offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes vacation, sick leave, a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.

Flight Safety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Possess and apply basic laminating, trimming, fitting, bonding, and assembly skills to form trainers that accurately represent the physical and visual attributes of an aircraft.

• Clean and prepare molds for lamination.
• Laminate parts by applying polyester, vinyl ester, and epoxy resins to prepared molds by releasing air bubbles and smoothing seams with brushes and rollers in fiberglass applied by hand or by chopper gun.
• Measure and mix required resins and catalysts to be applied to molds to create parts.
• Measure and cut fiberglass chop strand mat, woven glass cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required for projects being assembled.
• Cut, bend, form, sand, grind, glue, rivet, etc. using a variety of materials (wood, metal, foam, clay, fabrics, and plastics).
• Fit, trim, finish, and assemble various fabricated parts.
• Check completed products for conformance to specifications and for defects by measuring with rulers, calipers, and by checking them visually and by tapping them to detect bubbles or dead spots.
• Perform basic techniques with gel coats and chopper gun.
• Be familiar with all types of composites and a variety of other materials used to create composite parts.
• Ability to read blue prints.
• Skilled in carpentry and pattern making procedures and techniques.
• Other duties as assigned.

• HS Diploma/GED

• Less than 1 year

Flight Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of required compliance reviews, including verification that the candidate is not prohibited from employment under U.S. economic sanctions programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

This position may require access to export-controlled technology or services subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment consideration and any offer of employment are contingent upon the applicant's ability to comply with these requirements, including qualifying as a "U.S. Person" under applicable regulations or otherwise eligible for export authorization within a timeframe consistent with business needs.

A "U.S. Person" includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (holders of approved and unexpired green cards), and certain refugees or asylees with protected status under U.S. law.

This position may also require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance for the duration of employment.

All official recruiting communication from Flight Safety International will come from an  email address. Flight Safety International will never ask for personal or financial information through social media or third-party email providers.