Emmanuel Alba

Aviation professional with comprehensive experience in aircraft sheet metal mechanics, delivering precise and reliable structural repairs. Known for exceptional teamwork and adaptability to dynamic work environments. Possesses strong technical skills in blueprint interpretation and metal fabrication, ensuring dependable and timely results.

Sheet metal mechanic

2/2023 to current

Randolph Air Force base, San Antonio, Texas

• Conducts critical path management to assess workload and guarantee the overall to include the overall completion, efficiency, and effectiveness of production operations to include manpower and material requirements.
• Performs analyses of procedures to improve efficiency and minimize cost.
• Recognized as a knowledgeable technician on TRIM Upper and lower longeron replacement procedures and the removal and installation on a new 502 side skin.
• Able to deviate from critical path efficiently and effectively when confronting major constraints.
• Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications and work orders in manufacturing aircraft sheet metal structures which have combined straight and curved edges, and irregular angles, planes and curves.
• Examines aircraft sheet metal structures to locate cracks, breaks holes, bulges, dents and loose or missing fastener.
• Skilled in using shop tools.
• Knowledge of safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Assists in major component installation and removal to include fuel cell floors, -19 skin, and 332 and 362 formers.

Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic Trainee 10/2021 to 02/2023

Hallmark University, College of Aeronautics ∣ San Antonio, TX

• Performing operational and maintenance record keeping, both manual and automated, associated with aircraft maintenance and repair.
• Knowledgeable of plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders in manufacturing aircraft sheet metal structures.
• Examining and inspecting aircraft sheet metal structures to locate cracks, breaks, holes, bulges, dents, and loose or missing rivets.
• Performs bonded repairs to metal, fiberglass, and advanced composite (graphite, kevlar) structures.

Aviation Ordnance Technician / Aviation Maintainer 10/2018 to 10/2021

US Navy / VAQ-129 ∣ Oak Harbor, WA

• Completed 400+ hours of aircraft maintenance, totaling in 700+-man hours.
• Assisted with the safe arming / de-arming of 56 EA-18G aircraft encompassing 92 ordnance evolutions, including 5,500 expendable countermeasure and 3 CATM-88 missiles.
• Maintained 100 percent accountability rating by managing 148 instructions resulting in an “on-track” grade during audits and zero discrepancies as a Dispersed Technical Publication Librarian.

Aviation Ordnance Technician / Cableway Specialist 04/2014 to 08/2018

US Navy / USS Abraham Lincoln ∣ Norfolk, VA

• Accomplished the safe delivery of 4,000,000+ pounds of conventional Ordnance and associated components with zero incident as a 6k forklift driver.
• Led five sailors in the detection and correction of 12,595 cableway discrepancies, the removal of 64,129 feet of deed-end cable and the proper sealing and testing of 73 multi-cable transits.
• Performed over 200 maintenance actions on 10 Jettison Ramps, 7 Jettison lockers, and 4 Ready Service Lockers accumulating over 300 total man hours.
• Recognized for outstanding performance during the “2018 INSURV Inspection” of ships by monitoring and correcting over 200 ships maintenance discrepancies.

• Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Impresa
• TAA
• MWR
• MPS
• A - team