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Flight Technician

ANAVIA Näfels, ANAVIA Bilten
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

Key Tasks        
Aircraft Maintenance & Assembly:
  • Perform sub-assembly, final assembly, and repair tasks on aircraft, payloads, and associated components in accordance with work in-strictions and quality standards.
  • Execute scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities both at the Swiss headquarters and during international deployments.
  • Conduct inspections, installations, removals, replacements, and functional testing of subsystems and ground support equipment (GSE).

 

Flight Operations:

  • Support pre-flight and post-flight inspections, system preparation, and maintenance, ensuring all work is completed, documented, and signed off correctly.
  • Prepare and maintain aircraft, Ground Control Stations (GCS), data transmission systems, and payloads for flight missions.
  • Assist remote pilots and manage ground movements during flight operations.
  • Quality, Safety & Compliance:
  • Ensure full traceability and documentation of all tasks performed, including inspection and testing of incoming goods and parts.
  • Comply with safety standards, internal quality protocols, work instructions, and regulatory requirements (including handling Dangerous Goods).
  • Maintain all GSE in operational condition to support daily flight and test activities.
 
Other Tasks
Technical Problem Solving:
  • Perform fault diagnosis using appropriate test equipment and support root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions for sys-tem failures or malfunctions.
  • Contribute suggestions for product and process improvements based on operational experience.
Training & Collaboration:
  • Act as a technician instructor for internal and/or external training sessions.
  • Collaborate proactively with engineering, logistics, and operations teams to ensure seamless mission support.
Competencies & Duties
  • Working independently and responsibly. Perform task tasks as described above. Proactive communication when issues arise, or help is needed.
  • Compliance according to ANAVIA’ employment contract, compliance with company’ safety instructions and employee’ safety requirements, compliance with employers’ quality manual, work instructions and cor-responding process specifications and instructions.
  • Assure 5s behavior to drive clean, safe and efficient work processes.
  • International travel requires up to 50% of employee’ working hours.

Your profile

Qualifications
  • Completed technical education (e.g., in mechanical, electrical, or aerospace engineering).
  • Minimum 7 years of experience as an aircraft technician (manned and/or unmanned).
  • Proven understanding of aircraft assembly, system integration, and maintenance procedures.
  • Strong diagnostic skills and hands-on experience with technical test equipment.
  • Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Working knowledge of operational risk management practices.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and documentation tools.
  • Valid driver’s license.

About us

ANAVIA, a Swiss high-tech multinational, specialises in the design, development and manufacture of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) systems of up to 750 kilograms. We offer industry-leading unmanned helicopter systems for a variety of missions and applications.

With a team of highly trained and experienced composite, mechatronics, electronics, maintenance flight test and software engineers and other functional experts, we own and manage the entire value chain – from conceptualisation to final quality manufacturing.
Headquartered in Switzerland with a fully owned business unit in the UAE, we have a reputation for groundbreaking innovation and uncompromising quality that reflects our “Made in Switzerland” heritage. This is reinforced by our robust, all-European supply chain that ensures the highest quality standards, stable, and safe procurement processes for reliable manufacturing and delivery.

All of our systems and sub-systems are free of ITAR restrictions.