Aircraft Technician B; Retrofit - Avionics Installer

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Airbus Helicopters is looking for an Avionics Installer Tech B to join our Retrofit team based in Columbus, MS.

You will be part of the team to perform avionics and electrical installations and checkouts on assigned aircraft or parts and subassemblies. Routes, terminates aircraft harnesses, and performs safety checks prior to power application.

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

On the eastern border of Mississippi you'll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It's here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

• Perform assembly, installation, repair or replacement of aircraft electrical/electronic components and systems in the manufacture, maintenance or refurbishing of aircraft.
• Install electrical harness and sub-assemblies in aircraft by performing, but not limited to, the following activities; basic identification of wire and coax cable, clamping, bundling, mounting, routing, stripping, splicing, soldering, termination.
• Assure that installations are attached without endangering aircraft structure or systems operation and function.

• Conduct operational checks of complete systems to verify proper functioning of components and systems.
• Conduct bonding checks of electrical installations.

• Diagnose malfunctions or failures and make adjustments, repairs or replacements of parts or components.
• Perform wire harness continuity checks, operational tests, and troubleshoot/repair discrepancies.
• Perform operational tests, and troubleshoot/repair discrepancies.

Required:

• HS diploma or equivalent

Preferred:

• Some Aviation trade training.
• Technical training in an electrical/wiring installation capacity such as Industrial, automotive or telecommunications may be substituted.

Required:

• Minimum of two (2) years related experience in electrical installation (Industrial, Automotive, or telecommunications)

Preferred:

• Minimum of two (2) years General Aviation or Military Aviation

Required:

• None

Preferred:

• FCC, A/P License

• 5% Domestic and International

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