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Job Description

Overview

This position is for an Air Reserve Technician (ART) who serves as a journey-level mechanic responsible for inspecting, machining, welding, and repairing aircraft parts and components, as well as designing and manufacturing support equipment for aircraft maintenance.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoots, overhauls, machines, and repairs various types and sizes of industrial plant/facilities equipment.
  • Performs complex, intricate, specialized, or nonstandard machining.
  • Carries out various welding assignments.
  • Plans, develops, writes, and/or updates complex coded source programs in designated computer command languages.
  • Ensures compliance with security directives and promotes good safety and health habits in all work areas.
  • Controls tools and certifies work produced under the USAF Technical Order Program.

Additional Information

  • ARTs are required to maintain active membership in the AF Reserve unit where assigned.
  • 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 $42/hr, this posting sits about 77% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Missouri — toward the top of a $22–$30/hr middle band drawn from 38 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% 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: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 63 other active welding openings from 36 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 QPS Employment Group (7), Welding Shop in Kansas City, MO (6), and Leonardo DRS (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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