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Electronics Technician
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted today
About the Role
Technician position requires the advanced application and knowledge of the FAA Flight Simulator Program including: principles, theories, concepts, methods and techniques to ensure optimal utilization in support of the Agency's state-of-the art, flight simulation mission.
What You'll Do
- →Incumbent performs maintenance of the FM Boeing 737-800 and Airbus 330/320 convertible full flight (Level D) simulators.
- →Ensures flight simulator systems are in operationally certified condition.
- →FS liaison for contract maintenance activities, ensuring they are performed to established standards in accordance withl4 CFR Part 60.
- →Performs highly specialized technical expertise associated with analyzing, designing, developing, installing, repairing, fabricating, maintaining, modifying and/or evaluating highly complex simulation modeling and flight simulator aerodynamic and avionics systems.
- →Applies broad experience and advanced technical knowledge on flight simulator systems components, disciplines, and integration with multiple flight simulators.
- →Incumbent performs and processes hardware and software diagnostic tests on flight simulators to ensure proper function or affect repairs and re-verify proper operation of the malfunctioning system.
- →Utilizes vendor documentation (including, but not limited to, blueprints, schematic diagrams. and program flow diagrams) to locate, isolate, and repair or replace malfunctioning components.
- →Uses software utility programs and installed diagnostic equipment in fault detection and isolation.
- →Reviews and documents preventive and corrective maintenance on flight simulator aerodynamic and avionics systems and ensures repair of defective subsystems, assemblies, and circuit cards.
- →Performs all necessary calibrations and/or alignments prior to placing any failed device into service to ensure that the flight simulators continue to operate in accordance within their design specifications.
- →Ensures all simulator discrepancies are documented, evaluated for corrective actions, tracked and completed.
- →Incumbent provides specialized flight simulator technical expertise for Research, Engineering and Development (R.E&D) projects by supervising and performing hardware and software modifications as directed.
- →Incumbent also ensures currency of the visual database library models and assists in the creation of new models and/or modifications to existing ones to support R.E&D projects.
- →Additionally, the incumbent maintains all system source code documentation in current configurations and performs schematic updates, cataloging new software listings and hardware and software modifications.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓Information Regarding KSA's: As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
- ✓Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
- ✓In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
- ✓Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
- ✓Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
- ✓Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
- ✓Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and Selective Factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities, (KSA); Quality Ranking Factor (QRF), if applicable, Leadership and Management Dimensions, if applicable, or Other Factors listed in the announcement.
- ✓Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
Personality Fit
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