Can you picture yourself actually building modern, high-tech aircraft? This is a job that demands excellent hands-on skills, as well as the ability to read blueprints and to follow detailed engineering instructions accurately. The Structures Assembler performs wide variety of tasks, such as mating fuselage barrels/sections using fixed jigs, installing, fitting, and rigging wings and tail planes. The Structures Assembler is also involved in the repair, installation, modification and inspection of aircraft structural materials. Structures Assemblers assemble, fit and install aircraft skins, frames and structural parts. They assemble structures made of sheet metal and composites and possess knowledge of assembly jigs and tools. The Structures Assembler is involved in the set-up and operation of tools and equipment as well as some semi-automatic processes.

The Structures Assembler is part of an expert team that installs sophisticated fasteners, rivets, sealing materials, and doublers around door openings. More experienced assemblers hang engine pylons and conduct full system-function checks of all the moving parts. Structures Assemblers put together all the individual pieces and parts to create the aircraft.