Aircraft Mechanic I (Airframes)

Kay and Associates, Inc. • Oceanside, CA

9h

About The Position

Aircraft Mechanic I performs aircraft organizational-level maintenance and repairs of moderate difficulty to support assigned missions and aircraft readiness. The role diagnoses malfunctions and repairs, replaces, or rebuilds aircraft structures and systems, including airframes, flight controls, landing gear, hydraulics, pneumatics, engines, auxiliary power units, electrical wiring, anti-icing, ventilation, and heating systems. Work includes scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, inspections, servicing, technical directive compliance, modifications, corrosion control, and aircraft launch, recovery, and movement.

The mechanic reads and interprets maintenance manuals, technical directives, service bulletins, engineering data, drawings, and specifications to plan repairs and component replacement. The position uses hand and power tools, machinery, aviation test and diagnostic equipment, and support equipment. Duties also include maintaining aircraft and equipment logbooks and maintenance records, requisitioning parts and supplies, supporting flight-line operations and detachments, and keeping work areas clean, safe, organized, and free of foreign object debris. The mechanic may be required to hold an FAA license, specialize in a related aircraft systems discipline, verify the work of others when qualified, and deploy to off-station exercises.

Requirements

• Individual (I) Aircraft Maintenance Qualification.
• At least two years of aviation maintenance experience.
• Must achieve the Collateral Duty Inspector (CDI) AH-1Z and UH-1Y designation for DOL Skill within 90 days of hire.
• Must be able to work first, second, third, and weekend shifts as required.
• Must be able to work flexible schedules, including Monday–Friday, Sunday–Thursday, and Friday–Monday, as required.
• Must pass a background check.
• Must be able to obtain a favorable National Agency Check with Written Inquiries (NACI), in accordance with DTM-08-003, or a Secret security clearance as required for the position.
• Must be able to climb ladders, raised platforms, and aircraft.
• Must be able to use hand and power tools and have the dexterity to handle small parts.
• Must be able to deploy for off-station exercises and perform other support duties if required.
• Ability to troubleshoot malfunctions in various aircraft systems and perform general organizational-level maintenance.
• Must possess one or more specialties applicable to the assigned aircraft: airframe/structural, corrosion, landing gear, wing/pylon fold, hydraulic/pneumatic, or mechanical flight-control systems.

Nice To Haves

• Three or more years of H-1 rotary-wing experience.
• Five or more years of rotary-wing maintenance experience.
• Cadmium-plating qualification.
• Qualification to certify H-1 aircraft safe for flight.
• Naval Aviation Maintenance Control Management course (C-555-0053).
• Collateral Duty Quality Assurance Representative (CDQAR) qualification for airframes, power plants, and electrical systems.
• Collateral Duty Inspector (CDI) qualification for line, corrosion control, and avionics systems.
• Quality Assurance Safety Observer (QASO) qualification.
• Ammunition and explosive-handling qualifications.
• Vibration Analysis Operator/Interpreter qualification.
• Tire and wheel qualification.
• Hydraulic contamination qualification.
• Plane Captain qualification.
• Paint, Final Finish Insignia (N-701-001) and Aircraft Corrosion (N-701-0013) qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Perform line, corrosion control, and aircraft organizational-level maintenance on assigned H-1 aircraft.
• Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance support for assigned aircraft.
• Inspect, disassemble, evaluate, repair, service, modify, assemble, preserve, and de-preserve aircraft and components.
• Maintain aircraft and aeronautical equipment to support the readiness posture specified in the activities plan and daily flight schedule.
• Document maintenance actions in logs, records, forms, and electronic systems; maintain aircraft, engine, and support equipment logbooks.
• Troubleshoot malfunctions in aircraft structures, flight surfaces and controls, anti-icing, pneudraulic systems, engines, auxiliary power units, ventilation, and heating systems.
• Inspect, repair, replace, and rebuild aircraft components and subcomponents, including flight-control rigging.
• Read and interpret manufacturers’ and military maintenance manuals, technical directives, service bulletins, technical and engineering data, blueprints, drawings, and specifications to determine repair methods.
• Perform flight-line operations at detachment locations as required, including aircraft launch, recovery, and movement.
• Perform confined-space operations, including fuel-cell entry.
• Operate and inspect support equipment.
• Perform preflight, thru-flight, post-flight, preventive maintenance daily, phase, scheduled, unscheduled, periodic, and other hourly or calendar inspections.
• Requisition repair parts, materials, and consumable supplies through the military supply system.
• Maintain clean, safe, organized, and foreign-object-debris-free workstations, shops, and maintenance facilities.
• Work shifts and overtime as required.
• Perform other tasks as directed.
• Determine necessary repairs, modifications, and part replacements, and verify work performed by another person when qualified.

Benefits

• Minimum health and welfare benefit of $2.65 per hour, paid up to 40 hours per week.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Basic life insurance.
• 401(k) plan enrollment.
• Accrual of 5.52 hours of PTO per pay period.
• 13 paid holidays for KAI employees at MAG-39.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed