Aerospace Assembler
Are you ready to join an industry-leading global company that believes in empowering its employees? Are you prepared to use your inquisitive nature and strong work ethic to help our team solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges?
A career at Parker is rife with rewards and opportunities. But a career at Parker is not for everyone. Finding success at Parker requires dedication and an insatiable desire to win. We seek very smart people who also have the equally impressive characteristic of humility. We solve our customer’s challenges as teams, working together to ask the questions that have never been asked before.
Parker understands that solving the world’s greatest engineering challenges requires an inquisitive and intelligent workforce, and we invest in our team members to ensure they are the best in the industry. Our global success relies on empowered team members operating in an environment that breeds ideas and solutions, and we take every possible action to ensure this happens
We have an immediate opening for an Aerospace Sheet Metal Assembler at our Exotic Metals Forming Division!
The Assembler will perform a series of some advanced operations and/or complicated assemblies using a variety of hand tools, power tools, fixtures, work instructions and test equipment to properly assemble sheet metal aircraft components. Inspect completed work for conformance to Production Planning, verbal and written instructions, sketches and specifications.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Using hand and power tools, scribe, grind, punch, deburr, fit, and drill a variety of sheet metal detail parts, sub-assemblies or complete units by adjusting alignment and mating pieces to typical and close tolerances.
- May perform sizing, riveting, reaming, spotwelding, seamwelding, poke tacking and braze preparation.
- Detect and provide input for resolution to faulty operations.
- May prepare and develop schedules on spotwelding, seamwelding, riveting and fastener installation.
- Perform more complex repairs.
- Ability to work with details and assemblies that are at the high or low ends of conformance to produce a quality product.
- May do TIG-tacking for assembly purposes.
- Check for prescribed dimensions in jigs, fixtures or with calipers, micrometers, height gages and other inspection devices
- Follow and accurately interpret written instructions and drawings, planning, sketches and best practice worksheets.
- Perform all work in accordance with established standards and safety procedures.
- Ensure proper documentation is entered on manufacturing planning (including correct quantities) and paperless timecard system.
- Train others in multiple areas and on a variety of skills.
- Improve processes and tools.
- Resolve most challenges and complex problems. Proactively engages Engineering and Supervision to resolve recurring and most complex issues.
- Aids in development of new jobs.
- May oversee others.
- Complete Exotic Metals OpCert class and hold OpCert stamp.
Required Skills
Required Experience
Skills and Experience:
- Has experience in multiple cells and can move to various work areas easily, having a mastery of all steps of a process.
- Fully proficient in interpreting manufacturing planning, sketches, blueprints, specifications, including views, symbols, revision control and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
- Few limitations but knows what they are and stops and finds appropriate interpretation when necessary.
- Must be able to use mathematics relevant to functions.
- Requires familiarity with machine tools, precision instruments and good manual dexterity.
- Full competency to assess personal work, that of the work center and champions flow and Lean Principles.
Working Conditions
Demonstrate proper and safe operation of equipment, and personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, safety glasses/full face shield, hearing protection, heat reflective body garments and gloves as required.
Physical Requirements
The assembler performs physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and frequent movement of the whole body, such as climbing, lifting up to 50 pounds, balancing and handling of material.
Exotic Metals Forming, Division of Parker Aerospace is committed to non-discrimination in employment and other opportunities. Exotic Metals Forming, Division of Parker Aerospace is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics