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Job Description

Overview

This position is for an Air Reserve Technician (ART) who will serve as a supervisor overseeing employees involved in the evaluation, repair, and modification of aircraft structural assemblies and components. ARTs are part of the regular career civil service and must maintain active membership in the AF Reserve unit where assigned.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as section supervisor over employees engaged in condition evaluation, test, repair, modification, and overhaul of aircraft structural assemblies.
  • Identify, remove, and prevent corrosion on assigned aircraft and ground support equipment.
  • Inspect machines, weld, repair aircraft parts and components, and design and manufacture support equipment.
  • Provide training to reservists in task accomplishment.
  • Perform work planning responsibilities.
  • Perform work direction responsibilities.
  • Perform administrative responsibilities.
  • Apply EEO/EOT principles to personnel management actions.
  • Serve as technical advisor to Flight Chief in resolving production problems.
  • Ensure compliance with security directives and promote safety and health habits.

Additional Information

  • ARTs receive on average one weekend of military training per month.
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How this job compares in Whiteman AFB, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 79% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri — toward the top of a $24–$32/hr middle band drawn from 66 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 97% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Whiteman AFB, MO

Whiteman AFB, MO is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 48 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Missouri.

Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command currently has 1 other opening live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Webco Manufacturing (18), QPS Employment Group (8), and CGB Enterprises, Inc. (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Missouri, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Saint Louis at $29/hr and Kansas City at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT) SUPERVISOR figures were last recalculated when this page was built.