Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.
Home View All Jobs (2,210,545)

Job Information

Western Aircraft Aviation Interior Finish Technician in Boise, Idaho

Job Summary

The Finish Technician applies pre-mixed coatings to well-prepared interior aircraft parts; applies wood finishes such as stains and high-build clear topcoats to newly refurbished woodwork; performs touch-up and repair of interior wood cabinetry.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Performs high quality repairs to various finished surfaces in the shop and aboard aircraft. Cleans and polishes blemishes as needed to prepare the surface for new finish.

  • Applies UV activated grain fill and finish to surfaces using spray equipment and other manual/mechanical methods.

  • Cleaning and prepping materials for finishing, including mechanically stripping prior finishes, sanding and filling to prep for finish.

  • Applying various fillers, resins, epoxy, and related products to prepare materials for finishing.

  • Formulates color matched stains to match existing finish.

  • Set up and use spray gun for proper application of urethane, enamel, water base and epoxy paints.

  • Touch up woodwork with brush, airbrush, and spray gun blend-in techniques.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Job Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 (five) custom cabinet or furniture finishing or 2 (two) years’ experience in aircraft interior finish application. Artistic background for faux finishing a plus.

  • Strong communication skills.

  • Ability to use power operated machinery.

  • Ability to work to specifications with an extremely high attention to detail.

  • Ability to work individually, with a healthy sense of urgency to provide a quality product.

  • Ability to perform highly physical work duties including climbing and bending at the waist, crawling, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pushing, pulling, and working at heights, Reaching overhead above the shoulders and horizontally.

  • Ability to pass physical exam required to wear protective respirators.

Other Prerequisites

  • Pass pre-employment drug screen and background check

  • Ability to obtain Airport Issued security badge

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

  • Work is performed in an aircraft hangar environment with moderate noise level. The employee is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions, which provide protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. Must have the ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.

Available Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision

  • Short term & Long term Disability - paid 100% by Company

  • Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment - paid 100% by Company

  • Paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, jury duty, bereavement

  • Health Savings Account or Health Reimbursement Account (employer contributions tied to participation in wellness program)

  • 401K & Roth 401k with employer match

  • Flexible Spending programs

    Western Aircraft Inc. has a Drug Free Workplace Policy which includes applicants passing pre-employment testing in accordance with 14 CFR 120. Applicants testing positive for the presence of prohibited drugs are ineligible for employment. DOT applicants who become employees of Western Aircraft Inc. will also be subject to random, reasonable cause, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident testing.

    Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

DirectEmployers