6/9/2010
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Boeing Starts Statewide Recruitment for Fastener Workers
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The Boeing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, plays a crucial role in building the 787 Dreamliner, the revolutionary new plane making aerospace history.
As a member of the Boeing Charleston team, you will use your skills to fabricate, assemble and install systems for 787 aft fuselage sections, and join and integrate midbody fuselage sections from other structural partners. With the scheduled opening in July 2011 of the new 787 production facility, you will help the program produce 10 airplanes per month, the highest twin-aisle production rate in history.
If you take pride in your work, want a challenge that inspires your best ideas, and enjoy being part of a winning team, Boeing is the place for you.
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Boeing Co. seeks to fill “numerous” positions at its expanding 787 Dreamliner manufacturing facilities in Charleston, SC.
“Boeing is looking to hire experienced aircraft assemblers to perform a variety of roles, including structural work, fastener installations and inspections on the 787 Dreamliner,” the Charleston Post & Courier reports.
The aerospace giant launched a statewide recruitment campaign for employees to work on the Dreamliner’s aft and mid-sections made in Charleston. The first locally-made passenger jets are set to roll off the assembly line in early 2012, according to the Post & Courier.
The aircraft is also being assembled in Everett, WA.
In addition, Boeing is looking for job candidates to work in its $750 million final assembly line under construction at Charleston International Airport. The new factory, slated to open in July 2011, will start with a workforce of 1,000 and eventually employ as many as 3,800.
Applicants must have a minimum of four years of experience assembling, maintaining or repairing large structural components, along with a high school diploma or equivalency. All new hires will complete a six week post-employment training program.
Boeing is reportedly taking applications only through its online job site.
In May Boeing announced a five-week delay to allow parts suppliers “to catch up,” but the slow down reportedly also involved a previously undisclosed deign flaw in fasteners.
The fasteners involved connect the frame of the aircraft to the plane’s skin, near the tail of the 787, according to Flightblogger.
“Shear ties, which affix the fuselage frames to the skin of the aircraft, now require replacement or rework, after the initial design failed to take into account thermal fatigue loading of the parts,” according to Jon Ostrover of Flightblogger.
Under repeated cooling and warming of the unpressurized Section 48 and 48 Aft, the aluminum shear ties can pull away from the skin of the fuselage, threatening the plane’s structural integrity.
Thicker shear ties or radius fillers will be used.
Boeing said “shear ties” fasteners in the tail cone design issue won’t postpone test flights for the four 787s already flying or delivery to customers by the end of 2010.
Boeing has received more than 860 orders for the Dreamliner, which is already two years behind schedule. ©2010 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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