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Position Title
SHEET METAL MECHANIC (AIRCRAFT) (TITLE 32)
Agency
Air National Guard Units
Announcement Number
IL-11866200-AF-23-092 Opens in new window
Open Period
Friday, March 3, 2023 to Saturday, March 2, 2024
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Eligibilities
1. US Citizens.  Are you a US Citizen? (limit characters)
2. Are you a current National Guard member within the state for which this position is being advertised? (limit characters)
3. Are you a current Permanent full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Permanent full-time status with the state National Guard.
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4. Are you a current Temporary Indefinite full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Indefinite full-time status with the state National Guard.
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Preferences
1. Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position. (limit characters)
2. Would you accept a temporary appointment? (limit characters)
3. Would you accept a temporary promotion?
 
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Conditions of Employment
This position has requirements which must be met prior to employment, and conditions for continued employment. Your answers to the questions in this section will indicate your understanding of, or possession of, these requirements and conditions. (limit characters)
1. I have a valid, current state driver's license or I am able and willing to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license. (limit characters)
2. This position requires membership in the IL Air National Guard (IL ANG). If you are not willing or are ineligible to join the IL ANG, please do not apply to this announcement. If selected, you MUST be or become a member of the Selected IL ANG.

Do you possess an IL ANG membership, or are you willing to obtain, and maintain a membership in the IL ANG?
 
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3. Please type your current RANK, AFSC/MOS, and UNIT in the space provided below.
 
If you are a member of another branch of service, please include your branch, rank and military specialty.
 
Prior service members should include their last rank held and military specialty.
 
Civilians should type "N/A".
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Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application.
 
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Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. General Experience: Do you possess experience or training that has provided the ability to plan, manufacture, and install cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastenings such as single and double-hem edges and single, double or grooved seams? (limit characters)
2. Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the WG-05 Level, which includes 6 months of experience or training which demonstrates the ability to use common hand tools, power tools, measuring instruments and make repetitive repairs; basic knowledge of the type of work performed by the occupational series; and the ability to provide assistance to the journeyman by performing the simpler and routine duties of the trade? (limit characters)
3. Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the WG-08 Level, which includes 12 months of experience or training planning, manufacturing, and installing cylindrical, square, or rectangular-shaped objects that have easily constructed fastening; experience cutting and forming by using basic hand and powered tools such as hammers, chisels, hand snips, band and circle saws, squaring shears, seamers, bar folders, breaks, and stakes; experience assembling parts by seaming, bolting, screwing, riveting, tacking, spot-welding, or soldering; and experience demonstrating a basic understanding of using measuring instruments? (limit characters)
4. Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the WG-10 Level, which includes 18 months of experience or training in planning, layout, and construction skills to manufacture items and systems with dovetailed seams, set-in-bottom seams, burred-bottom seams, or wired or lock seams; experience using more complicated shop tools and equipment; experience in using metals including stainless steel, copper sheet, magnesium, honeycomb material and alloys; and experience demonstrating the use of more complicated mathematical calculations and complicated measuring instruments? (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
5. Independently inspect aircraft and determine the nature and extent of repairs to be made, using applicable technical orders as guidelines. (limit characters)
6. Inspect damage or deterioration and determine repair or replacement of plastic, fiberglass, composites, bonded structures, and bonded honeycomb assemblies using powered and nonpowered tools and equipment. (limit characters)
7. Prepare for and participate in various types of readiness evaluations such as MEI, ORI, IG and UE inspections mobility and command support exercises. (limit characters)
8. Conduct training on proper methods and procedures of wash rack operations. (limit characters)
9. Assist in training of drill status guard members and in maintenance of publication files of applicable technical orders, regulations, manuals and local directives. (limit characters)
10. Manufacture and ensure that metal tubing, conduits and cables are fabricated and tested in accordance with drawings and specifications. (limit characters)
11. Work from blueprints, technical orders diagrams, and work orders. (limit characters)
12. Identify, blend, store, control, and dispose of hazardous materials such as acids, caustics, alcohols, solvents, cleaners, primers and surface coatings used for corrosion removal, treatment and protection in accordance with applicable directives. (limit characters)
13. Work directly on the aircraft and its components, fulfilling such tasks as removal, repair, modification and installation of parts and assemblies, such as frames, stringers, longerons, bulkheads, beams, ribs, spars, skin, cowling, brackets, faring, access doors, panels and other related items. (limit characters)
14. Repair cracks in aircraft skin. (limit characters)
15. Troubleshoot aircraft structural repair situations in such areas as fuselage, tails, wings, cowlings, and stabilizers. (limit characters)
16. Align and balance component structures and airframe using precision measuring instruments and levels. (limit characters)
17. Identify metal corrosion. (limit characters)
18. Remove corrosion by mechanical and chemical procedures to include use of portable powered (electric and pneumatic) sanders, buffers, brushes, bead blasters, vacuum cleaners, scrapers, grinders, acids, caustics, solvents, alcohols and other agents used in corrosion control processes. (limit characters)
19. Apply protective coatings, markings, and decals after proper removal of corrosion and treatment of metals. (limit characters)
20. Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position. (limit characters)