Job Summary

This position is for an AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, PD# D1525000, part of the Nevada Air National Guard. This position is located within the Logistics Directorate of an Air National Guard Flying Wing. Its purpose is to act as the crew chief with responsibility for directing the total maintenance effort on individually assigned aircraft. Fully responsible for providing detailed technical insight on individual aircraft's level of Mission Capability.

Job Description

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Education requirement is based upon the qualification standards for the specific position and is stated under the heading "EDUCATION". Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities, as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific in describing your experience. EACH APPLICANT MUST FULLY SUBSTANTIATE (IN THEIR OWN WORDS) THAT THEY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE LISTED BELOW; OTHERWISE, THE APPLICANT WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THIS POSITION. DO NOT COPY FROM THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION OR YOU MAY BE DISQUALIFIED. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have experience or training 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. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have experience or training equivalent to a WG-11; directs, monitors or performs overall maintenance, servicing, inspections and documentation for one or more aircraft; works with, coordinates and oversees the work of subordinate aircraft mechanics; coordinates and oversees the work of journey level workers in other trades working simultaneously on the assigned aircraft; reviews, trains and prepares to perform battle damage assessment/repair; participates in mission generation/regeneration operations; directs multiple specialists in preparing aircraft for combat operations; expedites aircraft operations to include concurrent servicing, hot pit refueling and/or combat turns or integrated combat turns; performs preflight, postflight, thru flight, periodic, isochronal, phase, hourly and special inspections, as well as servicing, defueling, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance; serves as the technical authority to advise on, inspect and approve all airframe, mechanical, electrical/ environmental, avionics, engine and pneudraulic repairs on assigned aircraft; works closely with the production control function to report current aircraft status; requests and coordinates specialist support for accomplishing maintenance exceeding sortie generation capabilities or time constraints; controls and performs work assignments based upon priorities, workload, availability of parts, facilities, material and personnel; assigns maintenance and repair functions to subordinate mechanics; coordinates with production control to direct short notice availability of the aircraft to accomplish work on delayed discrepancies and other scheduled maintenance to meet mission requirements; observes and inspects performance and work procedures to insure compliance with applicable technical publications, directives and local policy; accomplishes operational tests of aircraft systems and components; directs and performs the ground movement of aircraft; launches, recovers, parks and services aircraft; performs end of runway inspection. Installs, removes, inspects and adjusts aerial delivery systems to mission requirements; makes diagnoses and solves malfunctions of aircraft systems and components by utilizing a wide variety of complex state of the art computerized and/or non computerized diagnostic and precision equipment, by studying layout drawings, blueprints and wiring diagrams and by analyzing construction and operating characteristics of aircraft and their components; performs or oversees maintenance such as troubleshooting, removing, repairing, replacing, rigging, aligning, cleaning, painting and corrosion control; ensures all mission associated support equipment is available and serviceable for deployment and employment.