SkillBridge: Equipment Maintenance Technician
Airbus Americas · Kinston, NC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Airbus Americas (aerospace & defense) in Kinston, NC. Dismantles, moves, assembles, installs, and repairs industrial machinery and equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, drawings, or verbal instructions.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- PLC, CNC, Tooling
- Openings
- 2 with this title at this site
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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 1616 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 82 other live reliability postings in North Carolina.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 3+)
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 47%
- ✓ PLC 46%
- Welding 33%
- ✓ Tooling 24%
- EHS / safety 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for CNC, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Airbus Americas in Kinston
12 other open roles at this site · 1 person we found in reliability roles at Airbus Americas.
- Quality Engineer Manager · Quality · Manager
- Reliability Engineer · Reliability
- Industrial Engineer · Industrial
- Industrial Engineer - Composite · Industrial
- Process Engineer · Process
- Equipment Maintenance Technician · Reliability · Technician
Full description from Airbus AmericasAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Required Qualifications
- ✓Workkeys Assessment completion OR High School Diploma/GED
- ✓Move and place in the correct position heavy equipment, real property and installed property in accordance with established methods.
- ✓Accomplish all necessary rigging.
Physical
Requirements
- ✓Onsite: 100% - Daily
- ✓Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Several times a day
- ✓Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Several times a day
- ✓Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Daily
- ✓Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts. Several times a month
- ✓Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Daily
- ✓Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. Daily
- ✓Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Daily
- ✓Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer. Several times daily
- ✓Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. Daily
- ✓Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor. Daily
- ✓Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. Infrequently a cop of times a year
- ✓Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Daily
- ✓Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site
- ✓Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.
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Job Description
Airbus Aerosystems Kinston is looking for an Equipment Maintenance Technician - Tooling to join our Production department based in Kinston, NC.
Airbus is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner (per DoDI 1322.29). This 180-day program allows transitioning service members to leverage their military technical expertise in a high-precision aerospace environment.
SkillBridge Eligibility
- •Active-duty service member within 180 days of separation.
- •Written Commander (O-4 or above) authorization.
- •Must have current work authorization for U.S. positions.
Meet the Team
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.
Your Challenges
- •Dismantles, moves, assembles, installs, and repairs industrial machinery and equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, drawings, or verbal instructions.
- •Dismantles equipment and machines using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
- •Moves machinery and equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
- •Assembles and installs equipment such as conveyors and tram rails using hand and power tools. Constructs foundations; aligns machines; performs scheduled inspection and maintenance. Sets up and operates machine tools and fabrication machinery to rework or make new parts.
- •Perform root/cause analysis in support of reliability processes, and collaborate with vendors, engineering, team leader, customer, other crafts and management to solve equipment problems and develop corrective action.
- •Rework and maintain tools of all types and materials. Perform routine minor machine maintenance as part of their daily work duties (e.g., replacing machine filters, changing standard light bulbs on machines and equipment, maintaining lubrication/coolant levels, etc. as related to basic Total Preventative Maintenance duties).
- •Repairing and building of lay-up tools.
- •Conducts routine, periodic, or special inspections to determine repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent breakdowns of facilities, machinery, and equipment.
- •Uses hand and power tools. Tests, inspects, troubleshooting, and repairs machines and equipment. Uses PLC, CNC along with blueprints, sketches, layouts, wiring diagrams, drawings, and specifications.
Your Boarding Pass
- •Min 5 years of professional experience in Production and/or aviation environment
- •Fluent in English
- •Team working mindset
- •Must be willing and able to work any shift
- •Other duties as assigned.
Citizenship
- •Eligible for employment in the US without current or future need for visa sponsorship.