Universal Aerospace Manufacturing

Bob Qualick from Universal Aerospace.

For Vocational Service month it was appropriate for us to have a representative from Universal Aerospace, an Arlington manufacturing firm tell us what it is doing to help our job market.

Universal Aerospace believes in community and building jobs and opportunities for people in our local community.  They are committed to the next generation of professionals and helping people to achieve the American Dream. Universal Aerospace was started 27 years. Founded in 1990 by the Petit family.

It is a super tier 2 company that supplies for tier 1 companies that then supply to Boeing.  It has been located at the Arlington airport for over 20 years. 

Over the course of the last decade there was a low period in sales, but from 2009 on there has been an steady path of increase in revenue.  Aerospace is growing.

As a vertically integrated supplier they have aerospace manufacturing and metal finishing.  Currently they are building a metal finishing warehouse at the old Bayliner plant and will provide over 40 jobs.  Currently operate 4 buildings in the airport area of Arlington.  They will be moving from another facility in Marysville into the only Bayliner complex. 

They have training programs to take young individuals to work hands on and learn craftsman skills.  Not everything that they do is large manufacturing. They so precision machining, turning and sheet metal.  Have worked on cockpit doors, seating and wingtips for aircrafts.  Moving forward there will be higher paid jobs for people that are doing programing that is set up for the manufacturing.  They use many different tools to create products. The monitoring tool is helpful for managers to monitor what is happening on the manufacturing floor. 

Have allocated 2500 sq. feet for in house training.  They have been taking people that have good basic skills and then providing technical training at their facility.  Universal Aerospace has found that they are able to find more employees using this method instead of finding people that already have the technical training.  Trained individuals typically go to the higher tiered companies including Boeing.

Universal Aerospace has many different customers.  That includes Zodiac, Jamco, B/E Aerospace and many other smaller companies.  Diehl Aerospace is a newer customer that they have been working with and have been a part of Universal Aerospace becoming an international company. 

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