About This Role
The Aircraft Mechanic performs inspections, functional checks, and preventive maintenance on aircraft, including various types of inspections. This role involves troubleshooting and unscheduled maintenance on assigned and transient aircraft, using a range of test equipment. It suits a candidate skilled in aircraft maintenance and repair tasks.
Responsibilities
- Perform inspections, functional checks, and preventive maintenance on aircraft, including periodic, phase, hourly, preflight, postflight, calendar, thru-flight, and special inspections such as fuel contamination, emergency equipment, and oil sampling
- Troubleshoot and perform unscheduled maintenance on assigned and transient aircraft, utilizing various gauges, meters, measuring devices, and other related test equipment
- May be required to perform user and organizational level maintenance on assigned support equipment, including inspection, repair, modification, and corrosion prevention
- Provide data for aircraft maintenance historical records, complete maintenance data collection, man-hour accounting, and other forms as required
- Instruct, direct, and assign maintenance repair tasks to drill status guard members
- Comply with safety, fire, security, and housekeeping regulations
- Prepare for and participate in various types of readiness evaluations such as MEI, ORI, IG and UE inspections, mobility and command support exercises
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Experience or training that has provided the candidate with the skill to remove and replace aircraft parts, accessories, and components, and to make adjustments and settings according to established specifications
- Skilled in the use of hand tools and test equipment
- 18 months of specialized experience or training installing, adjusting, aligning, troubleshooting and functionally testing the various major and minor mechanical and pneudraulic systems on an aircraft during overhaul or modification
- Experience coordinating the work of other mechanics, and scheduling maintenance to ensure completion of critical actions and optimum workflow
- Ability to instruct lower graded mechanics, military and other personnel in the disassembly and re-assembly of crash damaged engines, transmissions, gearboxes, hydraulic components, and fuel controls sufficient for the exhibit to be returned to its shipping container
- Knowledge of the makeup, operation, and installation of a variety of systems, assemblies, and surfaces
- Knowledge to determine when new surfaces, assemblies, and systems should be installed, or repaired through replacement of new parts and components
- Knowledge of types and extent of adjustments and alignments required
- Skill in the removal, replacement and adjustment of various systems, assemblies, and surfaces or any of their components and parts