About This Role
An aircraft mechanic performs inspections, troubleshooting, maintenance, and repairs on various major aircraft systems, assemblies, and components. This role involves completing tasks from major overhauls to routine maintenance and servicing, ensuring efficient and safe aircraft operation.
Responsibilities
- Perform inspection and troubleshooting on a variety of major aircraft systems, their assemblies, and components
- Position, maintain, disassemble, repair, and reassemble major aircraft systems, their assemblies, and components
- Efficiently complete major overhaul to routine maintenance, positioning and servicing of aircraft
- Accomplish operational and maintenance record keeping, both manual and automated, associated with aircraft maintenance and repair
- Utilize safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean work area
- Follow federal and state rules when storing, using, handling, labeling, and disposing of hazardous materials and waste in accordance with environmental standards
- Certify work produced under the USAF Technical Order Program
- Verify and certify work processes and procedures and adequacy of work accomplished of certified co-workers and trainees
Requirements
- Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision (Screen-Out)
- Knowledge of the makeup, operation, installation, and adjustment of a variety of major interrelated and/or integrated aircraft systems, subsystems, and assemblies such as fuel and hydraulic systems, flight control systems, instrumentation systems, engines, landing gear assemblies, airframe, and control surfaces
- Knowledge of a wide variety of parts, components, subsystems, and assemblies such as ejection seats, nuclear shielding, or similar self-contained systems
- Knowledge of safety regulations, practices, and procedures
- Knowledge of supply procedures, the publications order system, tool, equipment and material accounting and security and documentation procedures
- Skill in the use of standard and specialized tools and test equipment including fixtures, templates, scales, test stands, and external power sources
- Skill in reading and understanding instructions, specifications, blueprints, technical orders and data and settings from cockpit instruments and gauges
- Ability to rig, function test, or troubleshoot systems; determine when they are operating properly or whether portions of the system should be repaired or replaced; and the type and extent of adjustment and alignment needed
Important Details
- Part-time or unpaid experience: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work, clearly identifying duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week
