Airbus Americas, Inc.

On-the-job Training

• Safety and Workplace Orientation
  • Follow Airbus specific safety procedures around power supply, machines, equipment, tools, and manufacturing processes.
  • Recognize and minimize potential hazards.
  • Adhere to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) General Industry safety standards.
  • Maintain clean work areas
  • Follow PPE procedures
• Quality Production and Quality Assurance
  • Visually inspect materials, products, parts, and finished goods.
  • Perform product quality checks.
  • Demonstrate awareness of/identify defects and causes of rework.
  • Interpret tolerances using technical drawings and job specifications.
  • Adhere to customer-specific quality guidelines.
  • Follow employer-specific quality guidelines.
  • Use trade-related math to measure and inspect work.
  • Select and use various hand and mechanical metrology tools, such as calipers, dial and electronic indicators, gauge blocks, optical comparators, Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), to assure quality product.
  • Identify and report non-compliant stock, material, parts, and finished goods.
  • Document all quality tests; understand implications and consequences of documentation.
  • Use applicable systems to report results and document work.
• Routine Equipment Maintenance
  • Inspect equipment and employ basic awareness of maintenance concepts.
  • Identify a malfunctioning machine.
  • Follow general lubrication guidelines.
  • Apply preventative maintenance practices effectively; utilize manufacturer-specific guidelines where appropriate.
  • Follow basic troubleshooting guides.
  • Assist and communicate with maintenance personnel regarding equipment malfunction(s).
  • Demonstrate ability to recognize and/or solve mechanical problem(s).
  • Use autonomous maintenance principles.
• General Busniess Knowledge
  • Describe the importance of plant and departmental goals, e.g., Key Performance Indicators.
  • Apply basic business terms to manufacturing-related workplace processes and activities.
  • Describe the flow of work: “upstream” or “downstream.”
• Production Equipment Set-up
  • Perform mechanical set-up per employer’s Standard Operating Procedure, and equipment manufacturer’s specifications.
  • Read and interpret production orders.
  • Plan and identify set-up requirements.
  • Use appropriate hand and power tools.
  • Select tools and materials.
  • Assemble equipment.
  • Test and verify set-up.
  • Read and understand job specifications.
• Production Equipment Operation
  • Use appropriate hand and power tools.
  • Use technical drawings, formulas, and process control sheets efficiently.
  • Operate production equipment: startup, run, and shutdown.
  • Follow the production schedule.
  • Monitor and inspect products.
  • Monitor and adjust equipment as needed.
  • Disassemble equipment and components, if appropriate.
  • Sanitize equipment per employer standards, if applicable.
  • Document work; document production process; document adjustments made during production.
  • Maintain accurate recording of OJL.
• Inventory and Material Process
  • Demonstrate the ability to pull necessary materials for specific work packages.
  • Identify material management processes.
  • Compare inventory flow to roles and responsibilities.
  • Apply “lean” manufacturing principles to workplace processes.
  • Demonstrate awareness of logistics related to raw material and customer deliveries by relating the work packages to the required material.
• Continuous Improvement (Airbus Operating System)
  • Participate in continuous improvement activity for professional growth.
  • Minimize and remove waste - environmental, material, processes, and manufacturing.
  • Apply root cause analysis to improve the manufacturing process.
  • Adapt to process changes when introduced.
  • Participate in cross-training opportunities.
  • Suggest process improvements - both business and manufacturing.
• General Assembly
  • Repetitive to non-repetitive assembly and subassemblies of installation and torquing of bolts and all other fasteners
  • Repetitive to non-repetitive assembly and subassemblies of learning how to work in confined spaces
  • Work with diagrams and drawings
  • Participate in Quality inspections
  • May disassemble, modify, rework, reassemble and test experimental or prototype assemblies and subassemblies according to specifications and under simulated conditions.
  • Install and/or torque hydraulic lines and fittings.
  • Installation of fuel lines.
  • Installation and/or rigging of mechanical components.
  • Perform testing of system components via work instructions
  • Utilize test equipment during execution of system tests, where required.
  • Energize/De-energize hydraulic systems.
  • Installation of safetying devices, eg. cotter pins, safety cable, lockwire, etc.
  • Demonstrate ability to perform drilling operations as needed.