Posted 17 days ago
Power Bend Trainee
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Fabricates, shapes, bends, and assembles metal products for aircraft applications, operating fabricating machines and verifying workpiece conformance to specifications.
About this role
Power Bend Trainee
Ready to make your next move? A career at STS Aerospace allows you to take ownership of challenges, think creatively and be a part of our exciting growth journey.
STS Aerospace in Laconia, NH is searching for a Power Bend Trainee to join the team. This position is responsible for the fabrication, shaping, bending, and assembly of metal products for aircraft applications. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with engineering to develop layouts and sequence of operations.
- Work with engineering to design and construct templates and fixtures.
- Locates and marks bending and cutting lines onto workpiece.
- Sets up and operates fabricating machines such as benders, grinders, saws, cutters, presses, and collet swager.
- Cuts, deburrs, and sizes bent tubes to verify conformity using fixtures or mylars as needed.
- Positions, aligns, and fits parts together.
- Verifies conformance of workpiece to specifications.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Consistently, regularly and predictably at work and on time.
- Ability to perform basic mathematic equations to calculate ovality and arc lengths.
- Other duties may be assigned as needed
Qualifications
Education, Certifications, Licenses, & Registrations
One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.
At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)
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