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Duncan Aviation
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|Who We Are | Our Employees | Core Values |
| Benefits | Current Openings ]


Who we are
Duncan Aviation is an aircraft service organization that provides support, installation, repair, modification and parts services for businesses and government aircraft operators worldwide from more than 20 North American facilities, including its 430,000 square foot headquarters in Lincoln, NE. With more than 1850 employees, Duncan Aviation services a broad range of aircraft with a full staff of avionics, accessory, engine and airframe technical specialists.

Duncan’s Component Services are backed by more than $7.5 million in loaners, available free of charge to preferred Duncan customers. The company also operates a nationwide network of satellite avionics facilities and AVPAC, a division that sells and consigns general aviation parts to aircraft operators and service organizations worldwide.

A Message About Our Employees
From J. Robert Duncan

"The driving force behind our success today is our employees. You can’t help but love’em. They are the best and the brightest and the hardest working bunch of professionals ever assembled in the aviation industry. Their workmanship is rock-solid and worthy of the pride they so obviously share. The 1850+ dedicated professionals who make up Duncan Aviation are the reason we enjoy our outstanding reputation for service."
Core Values
Our core values guide the choices we make and the expectations we create while performing our work and building our business. At the root of each of our core values is the balance between customer, employee and company. To our customers, these values are reflected in our commitment to quality, professionalism and reliability. In order to support the core values of the company, Duncan employees:

  • Maintain a sense of fairness and a high degree of trust in all dealings with customers and fellow employees
  • Value each individual and approach all situations positively, recognizing and respecting each individual’s strengths and weaknesses
  • Maintain a team approach and offer positive suggestions to each other and receive those suggestions in the same manner
  • Focus on solutions rather than problems
  • Strive for continual improvement in quality and efficiency at all times
  • Be accountable for your own individual performance as well as those for whom you are responsible
  • Support our communities and encourage volunteerism

Meeting our core values is a challenge that we ask each of our employees to enthusiastically accept. Ultimately we ask our customers to decide if we have done so.

Dedicated to quality and Innovation
It is possible to combine a fun business with an exciting future.
That’s the Duncan Aviation challenge.

Duncan Aviation is an organization built around its experienced, hard-working, talented people. Duncan Aviation is also a company that believes in rewarding its employees for jobs well done.

Duncan Aviation is committed to helping employees succeed in enhancing their contribution to the company. Ultimately, their success and growth, as well as ours, will be determined by the ability to provide customers with superior service and satisfaction.

In the 2001 Pro Pilot Survey, Duncan Aviation rated as follows:

  • #1 Best Maintenance Center - Lincoln
  • #5 Best Maintenance Center - Battle Creek. MI
  • #1 Best Avionics Center - Lincoln
  • #2 Best Avionics Center - Battle Creek, MI
  • #5 Best Avionics Center - Teterboro, NJ
We are proud of our employees.
Benefits:

Insurance
Medical and Dental Insurance: Duncan Aviation pays a majority of the cost for a comprehensive benefits plan for you and your dependents. You have the option of either a PPO or HMO medical plan.

Life Insurance: Basic group term life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment and dependent life insurance are provided to you and your family at no cost to you.

Disability Insurance: If you are unable to work due to sickness or an injury and miss more than 80 hours, Duncan Aviation provides disability benefits to you. This benefit is provided at no cost to you.

Optional Benefits:
Medical/Dependent Reimbursement Account: You can elect to put pre-tax dollars into a medical or dependent care account. That money can then be reimbursed to you for any non-covered medical expenses or expenses incurred for dependent care.

Voluntary Term Life Insurance: Duncan Aviation provides you the opportunity to purchase additional term life insurance for you and your dependents.

Cancer / Intensive Care Unit Plan: Benefits paid from this plan are in addition to benefits received from the Duncan Medical Plan.

Eyewear Discount: This plan provides you with a discount on contacts or eye glasses at participating eye care centers.

Additional Benefits:
401(k) Retirement Plan: The Duncan Aviation 401(k) plan allows you to invest a portion of your income on a tax-deferred basis to save for your future. Duncan Aviation will match 50% of your elected deferrals up to 5% of your pay with a vesting schedule based on your years of service.

Duncan Investment Plan: A payroll deduction program to enable employees to invest after-tax dollars in a variety of investment funds with only a reduced sales charge.

Company Paid Holidays: The company provides seven legal holidays and one floating holiday annually.

Personal Time Bank: Based on your years of service, employees receive personal time bank hours to be used for personal time off (i.e. illness, vacation, personal business, etc.). New employees receive 40 hours at their six month anniversary; an additional 80 hours at their one year anniversary and a minimum of 120 hours each year after that with an increase to 160 hours at their ten year anniversary. Employees may carry over 80 hours each year and any additional hours they do not use is contributed to their 401K.

Opportunities
Duncan Aviation offers many opportunities for career development:

  • Airframe Maintenance
  • Avionics Installations
  • Avionics and Instruments Overhaul and Repair
  • Engine Maintenance
  • Interior Cabinet, Finish, Install and Upholstery
  • Line Service
  • Paint
  • Parts
  • Propeller Overhaul and Repair

Duncan Aviation provides a formalized system which allows employees to be aware of position openings and gives them the opportunity to apply for open positions. Duncan Aviation expects its employees to take active steps in planning their careers.

We believe in promoting from within. This enables us to work closer as a team and support our employees for their hard work in the company. Opportunities for advancement usually go to employees who have demonstrated both ability and initiative in preparing to get ahead and take charge of their own careers.

Duncan Aviation believes it is important for all employees to invest in continuous training and education. We provide skills training through formal and informal classes on and off site. To assist employees in independent study, we have established a training library which contains books, videos, audio-tapes and computer-based training on a wide variety of subjects.

If you are ready for the challenge
If you are ready for the challenge and opportunities Duncan Aviation is prepared to offer, call our Employment Hotline at (402) 479-1697 or check out our current opportunities here on Jobbot or visit our company website at http://www.duncanaviation.com

In order to be considered for any vacancy, a signed Duncan Aviation application form is required. A resume may be included with the application. Once an application is received it is effective for that opening only and if you wish to apply for a future opening, a separate application is required.

Employment is contingent upon a negative result on a pre-employment drug test.



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