Job Description

Overview

As an Aviation Manual Machinist at StandardAero, you will be responsible for the setup, calibration, maintenance, and operation of machining equipment in a clean and safe work environment. The company values integrity and offers on-the-job training to ensure your success in aviation repair and maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Read and interpret specification manuals, blueprints, templates, and layouts to determine machining operations.
  • Compute dimensions and tolerances and measure and lay out work pieces.
  • Verify dimensions of products for accuracy and conformance to specifications using precision measuring instruments.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and modify to achieve expected performance.
  • Adjust and set up machine tools for use by machining tool operators.
  • Participate in continuous improvement of cell processes.
  • Cross-train in other complementary skills to support production requirements.
  • Move between production assignments that utilize multiple skills endorsements.
  • Participate in the cross-training of other technicians as needed.
  • Observe all applicable safety requirements and report any unsafe practices or conditions.
  • Carry out other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • 3-5 years of Manual Mill and Lathe machinist experience is required.
  • High degree of mechanical aptitude, accuracy, and precision.
  • Thorough knowledge of manufacturing, tool design, and fabrication methods.
  • Proficient in the use of precision measuring instruments and hand tools.
  • Ability to read, understand, and interpret blueprints.
  • Strong mathematical aptitude.
  • Working knowledge of related company instructions and processes.
  • Ability to lift up to 25 pounds unassisted for approximately 25% of the average workday.
  • Regularly required to stand for prolonged periods.
  • Completion of a machinist apprenticeship program or equivalent.
  • Attainment of trade certification.
  • Ability to work day shift, evening shift, or weekend shift as required.
  • Must be authorized to work in the US.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO
  • Short- & Long-Term Disability
  • Life & AD&D Insurance

Additional Information

  • Evening and weekend shifts are required.
  • Many shop positions offer a 4-day workweek with 10-hour shifts, typically Monday through Thursday.

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
Short- & Long-Term Disability
Life & AD&D Insurance

How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Dallas, TX currently run a median of $35/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$36/hr across 51 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 Dallas, TX

We're tracking 112 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 77 different employers. 44 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,394 other active welding openings from 726 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

StandardAero currently has 1 other opening 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 Zachry Group (26), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (23), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (23). 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 $40/hr, San Angelo at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Aviation Manual Machinist (Evening & Weekend Shift) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.