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General Dynamics

Builds submarines, combat vehicles and business jets

Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice

Aviation Operations & Aircraft MaintenanceUpdated on Nov 14
InternshipBasel, SwitzerlandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Demonstrate enthusiasm for aviation and aircraft technology.
  • Enjoy precise manual work and working with machinery.
  • Show interest in physical and technical concepts.
  • Have a good lower-secondary school qualification, especially in mathematics and physics.
  • Demonstrate technical understanding and manual dexterity.
  • Use analytical thinking, work systematically, and have spatial awareness.
  • Have good to very good spoken and written English skills.
  • Work reliably, carefully, and independently.
  • Demonstrate teamwork, motivation, and appropriate interpersonal conduct.

Responsibilities

  • During foundational training at the partner company, learn to work professionally with different materials and operate conventional machining equipment.
  • Complete the foundational training by the end of the first year of the apprenticeship.
  • After the foundational training, rotate through different departments and receive comprehensive training in aircraft maintenance.
  • Manufacture workpieces, produce tools and fixtures for production, or assemble devices, apparatus, machines, or systems.
  • Work on projects with training-workshop specialists and produce technical documents.
  • Learn basic workshop skills including turning, drilling, milling, and grinding.
  • Work with different materials and learn their properties and how to use machines, tools, measuring equipment, and inspection equipment.
  • After foundational training, learn and support a range of duties in the airport hangars and workshops during the aircraft-maintenance apprenticeship.

About the Company

General Dynamics

Builds submarines, combat vehicles and business jets

General Dynamics builds warships, nuclear submarines, combat vehicles, and munitions for the U.S. military and allied governments, plus Gulfstream business jets for corporations and private owners. Gulfstream designs large, long-range jets and maintains them through its own service centers and completion shops. A separate technologies arm runs IT, cybersecurity, and command-and-control systems for defense and federal civilian agencies. The company earns its money from multiyear government contracts for ships, vehicles, and services, and the rest from selling and servicing jets. General Dynamics was founded in 1952 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Reston, VA
Founded
1952

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