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Job Description

Overview

Airbus Helicopters is seeking a Senior Dynamic Component Repair Technician to join their DCR team in Grand Prairie, TX. The role involves training and guiding technicians while ensuring high-quality care and safety in aircraft assembly and maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Provide support to section lead and supervisor and backup when vital for reporting or daily routine.
  • Provide technical support and expertise to the section technicians.
  • Reworks parts for the Overhaul process.
  • Inspects parts for continued airworthiness.
  • Assembles parts for repair or overhaul.

Requirements

  • A minimum of six (6) years of mechanical skill experience.
  • Proven ability to provide basic leadership to lower level technicians.
  • FAA Airframe & PowerPlant License is preferred but not required.
  • Read, write, and understand the English language.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Onsite work environment with more than 90% onsite requirement.
  • Located in Grand Prairie, TX, just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
  • Travel may be required once or twice a year.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Texas currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$34/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 Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 25 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 17 different employers. 9 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,307 other active welding openings from 708 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Airbus Helicopters 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 (24), Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), and Austin Industries (19). 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 $82/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and San Antonio at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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