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Aircraft Engine Mechanic
Air Education and Training Command · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
About the position: This position is Non-appropriated Fund (NAF) and will be assigned to the Aero Club on Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Incumbent may be required to work Monday - Sunday anywhere from 0600 - 2300. Requires frequent standing, bending, stooping, crawling, and working on and under small aircraft and working in tight spaces in tiring and uncomfortable positions. Frequently lifts parts and equipment that weigh up to 20lbs and occasionally lift and carry items that weigh about 50lbs.
What You'll Do
- →The primary purpose of this position is to maintain Aero Club aircraft in a safe and operational condition.
- →The primary duties of this position include but are not limited to: Makes repairs to a variety of systems, assemblies, and surfaces such as hydraulic, oil, fuel, and pressurization systems, landing gear assemblies, ailerons, and flaps.
- →Uses test stands and cockpit gauges, instruments, and controls as well as visual checks to trouble shoot (trace and locate) defects and determine the type and extent of repair needed.
- →Install, aligns, and adjust whole new systems, assemblies and surfaces as needed, or repairs them by installing and adjusting all defective components and parts such as complete cable riggings, rubber pedals, pump controls.
- →Connects up related systems, such as hydraulic and cable systems, to newly-installed or repaired units, and makes adjustments to the units and their related mechanisms that assure their proper operation.
- →Taxi or tows aircraft to and from maintenance facilities.
- →Select tools, test equipment, decides on methods and techniques to use, and carries out assignments with little or no check during their process or upon completion.
- →Obtain repair parts or new components and assemblies such as fuel and oil line connections to fittings, cable linkages, and spark plug cables and harnesses, by looking up replacement information in parts manuals, computer data bases, and by making visual comparisons with samples.
- →Cleans, washes, and wax aircraft.
- →Maintains tool and work areas in a clean, orderly, and safe condition.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
- →If interested in applying for this position you may preview the online application: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12979273
Requirements
- ✓Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.
- ✓This position does not allow for education substitution.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 4d41de0e-7ef5-49ed-b099-86f3bd680091
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