Parachute Rigger: civilian jobs and transferable skills
Army 92R Parachute Rigger experience builds transferable skills in inspection, equipment maintenance, fabrication, quality control, logistics, and safety. CivLaunch currently matches 17 open civilian jobs to this MOS, including Aerospace Painter at Primus Aerospace, Powder Coater at Innovative Solutions & Support, and Machine Operator at Piper Aircraft.
About the 92R MOS
Inspects, repairs, and packs personnel, cargo, and extraction parachutes and other aerial delivery equipment. Rigs supplies, vehicles, and containers for airdrop, assembles airdrop platforms, installs release systems, and repairs parachutes and textiles with fabrication tools. Senior riggers plan and supervise airborne and aerial delivery operations.
Ranked by how many of your skills each job uses. Strong matches share the most.
Aerospace Painter
Primus Aerospace · Reisterstown, MD
Good Match
$20.40–$26.40 an hour
Aerospace Manufacturing
Second-shift aerospace painter at Primus Aerospace in Reisterstown, Maryland, working Monday-Thursday evenings. Cleans, sands, and masks machined parts, mixes and sprays primers, coatings, and topcoats to specification, inspects coverage and finish, and maintains spray equipment, wearing respirators and other PPE. Entry level; industrial, automotive, or aerospace painting experience preferred. U.S. citizenship required.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
Powder coater at Innovative Aerosystems in Exton, Pennsylvania, finishing precision parts for avionics. Cleans, sands, and masks parts, sprays powder coatings with electrostatic guns, runs the curing ovens, inspects finishes for even coverage, and maintains booths and spray equipment under PPE rules. High school diploma; two years of powder coating or automotive or industrial finishing preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
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 equipment maintenance, fabrication, and inspection.
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 fabrication, inspection, and quality control.
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 equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
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 equipment maintenance, fabrication, and inspection.
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 fabrication, inspection, and safety.
Driver and material handler at Essex Industries in Milford, Connecticut. Pulls, packs, weighs, and labels parts for shipment, stocks the warehouse, inspects stock for damage, runs a forklift and pallet jack, and drives the company truck or van for pickups and deliveries. Entry level; must be 21 with a valid driver license and able to lift 75 pounds.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to logistics, inspection, and safety.
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 fabrication, inspection, and quality control.
Second-shift production supervisor for the grinding department at Beaver Aerospace & Defense in Livonia, Michigan. Leads machinists doing precision ID/OD, centerless, and thread grinding, schedules the work, reads drawings and sets methods and tooling, fixes grinder problems, checks parts with gauges and CMM, and coaches staff. Needs five years each of grinding and supervision. Pays $85,000 a year.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
Upholstery technician in the C&L Aviation interior shop in Bangor, Maine. Works from drawings and aircraft specs to strip, clean, repair, and re-cover panels and seats in fabric, vinyl, and leather, cuts patterns and carpets, sews covers, installs headliners and sidewalls, and signs off work orders. Needs two years of industrial upholstery. Pays $22 to $35 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to fabrication, quality control, and safety.
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 equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
CMM operator and quality inspector at Primus Aerospace in Lakewood, Colorado. Sets up and runs PC-DMIS coordinate measuring machines on machined aerospace parts, performs first article, in-process, and final inspections against drawings and GD&T, writes inspection reports, flags nonconforming parts, and keeps the CMM verified and maintained. Day shift with overtime. Pays $28 to $42 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
Quality inspector at Sonaca North America in Fredonia, Kansas. Sets up and runs the CMM from setup sheets, makes small program adjustments, moves data through CAD/CAM and SPC systems, works a parts schedule that shifts for rush jobs, maintains the machine daily, and documents compliance with the quality system. High school diploma or assessment; drawing reading needed.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
Mechanical assembler building and fitting aerospace subassemblies to close tolerances, performing preset calibration, flow and pressure testing, and final test, and completing test records and quality checks.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
Nondestructive testing technician at C&L Aviation's Bangor, Maine MRO. Inspects aircraft and parts for cracks and flaws with eddy current, magnetic particle, ultrasonic, and penetrant methods, prepares parts, calibrates and maintains NDT equipment, and completes inspection records. Requires ASNT Level II in those methods, five years of NDT work, and an A&P; NAS 410 and radiography preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.
NDT technician at Triumph Geared Solutions in Park City, Utah. Inspects aerospace parts by penetrant and magnetic particle methods to FAA, Nadcap, and customer specs, interprets results against drawings, maintains processing equipment and process controls, and keeps inspection records. Requires a high school diploma, Level II in MT, PT, and digital radiography, and U.S. citizenship or residency.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment maintenance, inspection, and quality control.