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Career: Aircraft Structures Worker |
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Aircraft structures workers manufacture and maintain airframes and engine components and parts.
Aircraft structures workers mark and cut sheet metal according to engineering drawings. Various factors such as the metallic properties of the metal must always be taken into account. Shapes are obtained by bending the sheet metal into the desired form and by joining components together using soldering, brazing, welding, riveting or bonding techniques. They also shape and fit pipes to aircraft. They have to treat all metals to protect them from corrosion. Safety precautions have to be strictly adhered to. |
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School Subjects |
Grade 9 or N1.
COMPULSORY SUBJECTS: Mathematics
RECOMMENDED SUBJECTS: Physical Science, Trade Theory, Technical Drawing, Welding and Metalworking |
Training |
SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE:
The minimum training period is three years. |
Employer |
- Denel Aviation
- Aircraft manufacturing or maintenance companies
- South African Airways
- South African Air Force
- Commercial and private airlines
- Department of Transport |
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