
Equipment Maintenance Technician
Airbus Americas · Kinston, NC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 17 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Airbus Americas (aerospace & defense) in Kinston, NC. ⦁ Hearing: Daily able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
- Tools it names
- PLC, Robotics, Automation, CNC
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $58k–$84k.
Median of the low and high ends of 37 live postings that list pay, out of 1786 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 97 other live reliability postings in North Carolina.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ PLC 45%
- Team leadership 45%
- Welding 33%
- EHS / safety 26%
- Tooling 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Robotics, Automation, CNC, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Airbus Americas in Kinston
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responsibilities
as required by Spirit leadership. Training and certification will be provided for the additional work when required
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Experience with industrial / automation maintenance.
- ✓Experience with CNC or PLC systems.
- ✓Work experience with Allen-Bradley, Siemens, or Fanuc.
Physical
Requirements
⦁ Onsite
⦁ Vision: Daily able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.
⦁ Hearing: Daily able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms.
⦁ Speaking: Daily able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.
⦁ Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): Daily able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.
⦁ Carrying: Several times a week able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
⦁ Lifting: Several times a week able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.
⦁ Pushing / Pulling: Several times a week able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.
⦁ Sitting: Daily able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer.
⦁ Squatting / Kneeling: Several times a month able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
⦁ Standing: Daily able to stand for discussions in offices or on production floor.
⦁ Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents) and able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.
⦁ Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks. Protective Gloves.
⦁ Walking: able to walk through office and production areas, around flightline and airstrips and sometimes on uneven indoor and/or outdoor surfaces.
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Job Description
Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for an Equipment Maintenance Technician to join our Facilities department based in Kinston, NC. You will perform repairs and maintenance in plant or office facilities, or on machines and equipment.
Meet the Team
Our team at Airbus Aerosystems Kinston manufactures crucial aircraft components. On the shop floor you’ll be surrounded by individuals who are passionate about aviation and skilled in areas like electrical, structure and quality. Join our team and help build the next generation of aircraft.
Your Working Environment
The Airbus Aerosystems Kinston facility sits at the forefront of aerospace manufacturing, specializing in the production of large, advanced composite aerostructures. Our team builds critical components for the state-of-the-art Airbus A350 XWB, including the composite center fuselage and wing spar.
How We Care for You
- •Financial Rewards: Competitive pay, 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 paid parental leave program.
- •Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, 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.
Your Challenges
- •Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent break downs of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
- •Uses hand and power tools.
- •Tests, inspects, troubleshoots, and repairs machines and equipment.
- •Uses PLC, CNC along with blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.
- •Move and place in correct position heavy equipment, real property and installed property in accordance with established methods.
- •Accomplish all necessary rigging.
The Company will provide appropriate assistance in job training to enable employees to perform all necessary job functions including the following:
- •Obtain and deliver material and equipment necessary to support plant maintenance and repair.
- •Work from diagrams, prints, specifications or verbal orders.
- •Use hand tools, powered tools and shop equipment.
- •Perform disassembly and assembly operations necessary to accomplish assignment.
- •Enter and retrieve data from the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and order parts required to accomplish the tasks (except as relates to inventory, store, record, issue and any other duties related to material support technician.) In addition, each employee may be asked, on occasion, to complete other duties and
Your Boarding Pass
- •Experience troubleshooting electrical schematics.
- •Must be willing and able to work any shift
- •Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED
