# F/A-18 Ordnance Technician

**Company**: Boeing Aerospace Operations
**Location**: Belle Chasse, Louisiana
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $68,000 - $92,000
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Boeing Global Services is searching for a F/A-18 Ordnance Technician to work at Naval Air Station (NAS) Joint Reserve Base (JRB) New Orleans in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. This position is expected to be 100% onsite.

The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at NAS JRB New Orleans in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. This position may be required to work at Stennis Facility in Kiln, Mississippi as required.

**Responsibilities:**

- Maintain aircraft ordnance and associated equipment

- Remove and install ordnance-related components and gear

- Perform daily, pre- and post-flight, and periodic aircraft inspections

- Perform flight operation activities, including daily, turnaround, launch, and recovery

- Assemble, disassemble, and modify systems by changing, removing, replacing, or upgrading aerospace vehicle components

- Troubleshoot complex ordnance systems to isolate mechanical or electrical faults and repair faulty components

- Perform validation/verification testing of systems and components

- Document procedures and established processes to ensure contractual and regulatory compliance

- Inspect components and verify repairs for flight worthiness requirements

- Prioritize quality, product, and people safety

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in military fighter aircraft maintenance

- Willing to work variable shifts, including days, evenings, nights, and weekends

- Must be able to lift up to 35 pounds

- Minimum of 5 years of experience reading and interpreting technical publications, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

- Must be able to work outdoors under all types of weather conditions with exposure to loud noise and exhaust fumes

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Fighter structural modification experience

- Experience with Ordnance or Ordnance Subsystems

- F/A-18 (AO) Qualifications

- Prior experience with Navy 4790.1 requirements

**Pay & Benefits:**

- Summary pay range: $68,000 - $92,000

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Eligible employees can enroll in a variety of benefit programs, including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, and retirement savings plans

## Skills

### Required
- military fighter aircraft maintenance
- technical publications
- safety rules
- operating and maintenance instructions

### Nice to have
- fighter structural modification
- ordnance subsystems
- F/A-18 (AO) Qualifications
- Navy 4790.1 requirements

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