Job Description

Overview

The Technician, Structures role involves adhering to safety and environmental policies while performing maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on customer aircraft. The position requires a combination of technical skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to Bombardier General Work Requirements.
  • Comply with environmental health and safety policies and procedures.
  • Participate in 5-S activities.
  • Troubleshoot, repair, inspect, and perform maintenance on customer aircraft.
  • Remove and install aircraft components as required.
  • Fabricate and modify structural modifications on aircraft parts.
  • Perform minor structural repairs on composite components.
  • Assist in conducting hidden damage inspections of aircraft structures.
  • Assist with complex structural repairs either on or off aircraft.
  • Perform and document work per appropriate manuals and regulations.
  • Operate ground support equipment as required.
  • Assist with aircraft component repair.
  • Perform mechanical and electrical removals and installations as required.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Typically 1-2 years structural sheet metal repair or modification experience.
  • Sheet metal A/C Tech school or equivalent schooling.
  • Ability to interpret and work with mechanical engineering drawings.
  • A Certification, A & P Certification, or Repairman Certificate.
  • Ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal form.
  • Own a basic set of hand tools and demonstrate inventory and control of tools.
  • Must obtain appropriate Ground Support Equipment Qualifications.
  • Ability to work unscheduled overtime including nonscheduled work days and holidays.
  • Ability to work in seasonal or inclement weather outside.
  • Ability to obtain a Security Identification Display Area badge.
  • Basic PC skills.

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 $27–$39/hr across 47 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 121 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 79 different employers. 55 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,395 other active welding openings from 683 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.

Bombardier currently has 3 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 Welding Shop in Austin, TX (26), Zachry Group (25), and Austin Industries (25). 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 Burleson at $40/hr, La Porte at $38/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. Technician, Structures figures were last recalculated when this page was built.