About This Role
This National Guard position is for an Aircraft Mechanic, focusing on inspecting, repairing, modifying, and servicing aircraft systems, components, and assemblies. The role involves both on- and off-aircraft maintenance and requires directing and instructing other maintenance personnel.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, repair, modify, and service aircraft systems, components, and assemblies, both on- and off-aircraft
- Perform inspections, functional checks, and preventive maintenance on aircraft, including periodic, phase, hourly, preflight, postflight, calendar, thru-flight, and special inspections
- Troubleshoot and perform unscheduled maintenance on assigned and transient aircraft using various gauges, meters, measuring devices, and other related test equipment
- Perform user and organizational level maintenance on assigned support equipment, including inspection, repair, modification, and corrosion prevention (WG-10)
- 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 (WG-10)
- 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
- Act as the crew chief with responsibility for directing the total maintenance effort on individually assigned aircraft (WG-12)
- Direct, monitor, or perform overall maintenance, servicing, inspections, and documentation for one or more aircraft (WG-12)
- Ensure aircraft documentation and Maintenance Information Systems (MIS) accurately reflect the airworthiness of the aircraft (WG-12)
- Perform in-process and final inspection of aircraft and components undergoing repair, overhaul, and/or modification to verify and certify adherence to work techniques, procedures, and quality standards (WG-12)
- Plan, develop, and conduct training during the technician work week to a multi-facet workforce comprised of 3 to 8 assigned military positions (WG-12)
- Prepare for and participate in various types of readiness evaluations, inspections, mobilization and command support exercises and Operations Other Than War (OOTW) (WG-12)
- Comply with safety, fire, security, environmental, and housekeeping regulations (WG-12)
Requirements
- Military Grades: E-3 - E-7
- At least 18 months of specialized experience in each of the following for WG-10:
- Installing, adjusting, aligning, troubleshooting, and functionally testing the various major and minor mechanical and pneudraulic systems on an aircraft during overhaul or modification
