Job Description

Overview

At Bombardier, we design, build and maintain the world’s peak-performing aircraft, emphasizing employee growth and development. The Aircraft Assembler (Sheet Metal) role involves contributing to projects, solving problems collaboratively, and ensuring quality outcomes in a dynamic team environment.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in projects to success, managing them from start to finish
  • Solve problems collaboratively with team members
  • Innovate processes by introducing new ideas and methods
  • Mentor junior team members, providing guidance and support
  • Ensure quality outcomes in all tasks and deliverables
  • Drive team efficiency by optimizing workflows
  • Support team goals and align efforts with objectives
  • Foster a positive environment, promoting collaboration

Requirements

  • Must have experience in the aviation industry
  • Hold a high school diploma or equivalent, with the ability to read and comprehend English
  • Must be able to master the use of pneumatic tools, electrical bonding equipment, measuring devices, and torquing equipment
  • Must be able to use tools such as scales, protrusion gages, fastener grip gages, calipers, micrometers, trulok gages, go-no-go gages, ball gages, fastener height gages, torque wrenches, and understand all calibration requirements
  • Must be able to use drilling devices like pistol grip drill motors, 90- and 45-degree angle motors, Winslow guns, or Spacematic (power feed), and set up countersinks
  • Must be able to drill holes true and round, maintain 2-degree angularity, determine edge distance, pitch distance, equal distance spacing, and differentiate hole requirements for interference, transition, and clearance fasteners
  • Must be able to install fasteners (wet or dry) such as button head, flush hilok/hilite, castellated nuts, button head/flush rivets, blind rivets, jo-bolts, and distinguish between shear/tension fasteners
  • Must be able to use alodine (1132 pen), touch-up paint, topcoat/clear coat
  • Must be able to use shop floor operating systems, understand drawings and blueprints, follow planning requirements, and have basic computer operating skills
  • Must be able to perform sealing processes including fay surface, fillet, pack, aero, brush coat, and dome sealing

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tele Health Program

Additional Information

  • Shift: Any Shift
  • Employee Status: Regular

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Life Insurance
Disability
Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Tele Health Program

How this job compares in Red Oak, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$35/hr across 417 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Red Oak, TX

Red Oak, TX currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,230 other active welding openings from 554 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Red Oak, or widen the search to Texas.

Bombardier currently has 2 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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