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Job Description:

Airbus Kinston is looking for an Assembly Technician to join our team based in Kinston, NC.

Meet the Team:
Our team at Airbus Kinston manufactures crucial aircraft components. On the shop floor you’ll be surrounded by individuals who are passionate about aviation and skilled in areas like electrical, structure and quality. Join our team and help build the next generation of aircraft.

Your Working Environment:
The Airbus Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.

How We Care for You:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive pay, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000&43; e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path; as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development program; and both national and international mobility.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lays out, assembles, pre-fits, and bonds a variety of metal, composite or laminate fabrications, assemblies, parts, skins or equipment. 

• Follows engineering and manufacturing specifications and orders to determine parts to be bonded and the temperature and pressure required.

• Cuts parts or materials to size.

• Operates autoclave, hydraulic presses and ovens to complete the bonding cycle.

• Sands, burrs and smooths over areas.

• Applies sealing resins to cut or exposed edges.

• Process methods and sequences vary depending on compounds, contours and lay-up transitions.

• May perform complicated rework or repair.

• May monitor and verify quality in accordance with controlled procedures.

• The Company will provide appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform all necessary job functions, including:

  • Utilize lay-up tools, which include both optical and hard tools, in the fabrication of composite and metal assemblies.

  • Obtain required information from prints, charts, sketches, workorders, documents, verbal and electronic information.

  • Use shop mathematics and precision measuring instruments to complete work assignments.

  • Must verify work performed is per work instruction and meets process and/or engineering specifications.

• In addition, each employee may be asked, on occasion, to complete other duties and responsibilities as required by leadership. Training and certification will be provided for the additional work when required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must be willing and able to work any shift.

• Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED

How we care for you

• Financial Rewards: Competitive pay, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000&43; e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path; as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes; and both national and international mobility.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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