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Composite Repair Engineer

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If you enjoy solving problems in a challenging environment, join our client and become a key member of their dedicated team in Prestwick Base as a Composite Repair Engineer. You will be motivated and empowered in shaping the future of the company. You will have a huge impact on the business, whether that is through delivering operation excellence, innovation, or helping to set new standards in aircraft reliability and customer satisfaction.
Our client’s people’s well-being is crucial to them. The shift pattern of 5,5,4 pattern is designed to promote a positive work-life balance.
Our client is committed to invest in their people. The ethos of continually nurturing talent while acting as a responsible member of the aviation community, means that employees’ ongoing learning and development is taken seriously.
Our client is part of an international provider of line, light, and base maintenance services, delivering 24-hour comprehensive support to commercial aircraft operators. Fully customised services include AOG support, workshop facilities, aircraft modification programs, 147 Technical Training, Aircraft Fuel Tank Repair, tooling hire, and a UKAS-approved tooling and equipment calibration laboratory.
To be considered for the role of Composite Repair Engineer it is important that you have the following:

  • Experience in composite work inside an aerospace environment.
  • Experience in both metal bonding or wet/prepreg layup
  • Right to work in the UK
    Forward Assist Recruitment is operating as an employment agency. Forward Assist Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds

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