Allied Trades Specialist: civilian jobs and transferable skills
Army 91E Allied Trades Specialist experience builds transferable skills in welding, machining, fabrication, sheet metal, equipment operation, and inspection. CivLaunch currently matches 12 open civilian jobs to this MOS, including TIG Welder at NMG Aerospace, Machine Operator at Piper Aircraft, and CNC Machinist at AeroTEC.
About the 91E MOS
Fabricates, repairs, and modifies metal and nonmetal parts using lathes, grinders, saws, presses, drill presses, and oxyacetylene, arc, and inert-gas welding equipment. Senior specialists supervise metalworking shops, recovery operations, and inspection of completed work.
Ranked by how many of your skills each job uses. Strong matches share the most.
TIG Welder
NMG Aerospace · Stow, OH
Good Match
Aerospace Manufacturing
3+ years
TIG welder at NMG Aerospace in Stow, Ohio. Welds stainless, aluminum, and titanium pressure tanks and structural parts to print, torch-brazes joints, installs hardware, and checks welds and dimensions with gauges. Also runs shears, press brakes, and plasma cutters. Needs three to five years of TIG welding, blueprint reading, and passing company-supplied MIL-STD-1595 or AWS D17.1 testing.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and sheet metal.
Machine operator on Piper Aircraft's Vero Beach, Florida production floor, hired at three levels. Forms and machines aircraft parts on brake presses, shears, punch presses, laser turrets, tube benders, lathes, and mills from Piper drawings and process specs, performs first-article and self inspections, and handles routine machine upkeep under FAA quality rules.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to machining, fabrication, and sheet metal.
Contract CNC machinist at AeroTEC's flight test center in Moses Lake, Washington. Programs in G-code, sets up, and runs CNC mills to make tooling, test models, and parts for flight test programs, assembles aircraft parts, and welds shop fixtures. Needs a high school diploma, five years operating 3-, 4-, and 5-axis mills, and three years of CNC programming.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, machining, and fabrication.
Second-shift sheet metal forming fabricator at Sonaca North America (formerly LMI Aerospace) in St. Charles, Missouri, working four ten-hour nights. Sets up and runs shears, saws, and forming equipment from planning and engineering data, checks first parts with gauges, mylars, and calipers, inspects every part, does minor machine upkeep, and records counts and nonconformances. High school diploma preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, sheet metal, and equipment operation.
CNC mill machinist at Primus Aerospace in Lakewood, Colorado, on a four-day first shift, hired as Machinist I, II, or setup machinist by experience. Runs mills from work orders, reads GD&T prints, sets up vises and work coordinates, checks dimensions with calipers and micrometers, meets cycle times, and completes job paperwork. $22 to $42 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to machining, equipment operation, and inspection.
Production welder building aerospace parts and assemblies from aluminum, titanium, and other alloys with manual and robotic welding processes. Inspects welds, keeps traceability records, and helps train new welders to aerospace quality standards.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and equipment operation.
Sheet metal fabricator and assembler laying out, fabricating, riveting, drilling, and assembling semi-complex missile parts and fixtures using brakes, rolls, routers, and hand tools.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, sheet metal, and equipment operation.
Production welder at Essex Industries in St. Louis, which builds aircraft components and oxygen and breathing equipment. TIG and MIG welds and finishes many metals and alloys for parts that must meet strength and pressure specs, works from blueprints and sketches, inspects finished welds, and completes paperwork. Needs one to three years of technical training and a year of welding.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, fabrication, and inspection.
Precision grinder at Beaver Aerospace & Defense in Livonia, Michigan. Sets up grinding machines from blueprints, picks and mounts wheels, grinds inside and outside diameters and faces to tolerances as tight as fifty millionths of an inch, checks parts with micrometers and gauges, adjusts or stops machines when problems appear, and does routine upkeep. Pays $27.16 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to machining, equipment operation, and inspection.
Production machinist at Sonaca North America in Fredonia, Kansas. Loads and cycles CNC machining centers and manual machines, watches for worn or broken cutting tools, checks parts against blueprint dimensions with calipers and micrometers, deburrs finished parts, keeps fluids topped and chips cleared, and fills out production paperwork. Entry path: high school diploma or assessment; machining trade school preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to machining, equipment operation, and inspection.
Senior welder operating electron beam, orbital, and TIG welding equipment on precision space and defense components; sets up and maintains welders, inspects welds under microscope, leads the work cell, and trains technicians.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to welding, equipment operation, and inspection.
CNC machinist at NMG Aerospace in Stow, Ohio. Sets up tooling and fixtures on CNC lathes and mills, proves out first parts to the blueprint, runs production, inspects parts in process, and records SPC data and ERP transactions. Needs four to seven years of CNC machining in a regulated industry and a high school diploma; apprenticeship or journeyman card preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to machining, equipment operation, and inspection.