Aircraft Mechanic (T32)

Air National Guard Units • Birmingham, AL

21h • Onsite

About The Position

This is a National Guard Title 32 excepted service position with the Alabama Air National Guard’s 117th Air Refueling Wing in Birmingham, Alabama. The position requires membership in a compatible military assignment and the selectee must wear the military uniform. The mechanic inspects, maintains, troubleshoots, services, and repairs assigned and transient aircraft and associated equipment; documents maintenance; coordinates work; and supports readiness activities and evaluations. Additional duties may be assigned as needed.

Requirements

• National Guard membership is required, with membership in a compatible military assignment in the Alabama Air National Guard required before the effective date of placement; applicants not currently members must be eligible for immediate membership.
• Must be within the stated military rank range: minimum A1C and maximum SSGT.
• General experience or training removing and replacing aircraft parts, accessories, and components and making adjustments and settings to established specifications.
• Skill in using hand tools and test equipment.
• Experience or training installing, adjusting, aligning, troubleshooting, and functionally testing major and minor mechanical and pneudraulic aircraft systems during overhaul or modification.
• Experience coordinating mechanics’ work and scheduling maintenance to complete critical actions and maintain workflow.
• Ability to instruct lower-graded mechanics, military members, and other personnel in disassembling and reassembling crash-damaged engines, transmissions, gearboxes, hydraulic components, and fuel controls sufficiently to return the exhibit to its shipping container.
• Knowledge of the makeup, operation, and installation of aircraft systems, assemblies, and surfaces.
• Knowledge of when aircraft surfaces, assemblies, and systems should be repaired or replaced, and of the adjustments and alignments required.
• Skill removing, replacing, adjusting, connecting, meshing, and aligning aircraft systems, assemblies, surfaces, components, and parts.
• Knowledge and skill using precision test equipment, technical data, schematics, wiring diagrams, mathematical formulas, common hand tools, jigs, templates, and gauges.
• Selectee may be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• May occasionally work outside normal duty hours; overtime may be required.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, who are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act must be registered to be eligible for appointment.
• Education cannot be substituted for the experience requirements for this wage grade position.

Responsibilities

• Perform periodic, phase, hourly, preflight, postflight, calendar, thru-flight, and special aircraft inspections; conduct functional checks and preventive maintenance on aircraft systems.
• Install aircraft equipment such as external tanks, tow reels, hoists, and pylons.
• Troubleshoot and perform unscheduled maintenance on assigned and transient aircraft using gauges, meters, measuring devices, and related test equipment.
• Make major adjustments and alignments to aircraft systems and components, and assist specialists as required.
• Remove and replace aircraft components, including control surfaces, engines, drives, gearboxes, fuel tanks or cells, landing gear mechanisms, wheels, brakes, and tires.
• Service oil, fluid, fuel, hydraulic, and oxygen systems; maintain installed equipment and perform operator maintenance on aircraft auxiliary power units.
• Tow, taxi, park, and moor aircraft; meet and debrief aircrew about aircraft status; launch and recover aircraft, including alert aircraft.
• Perform end-of-runway inspections and identify conditions that could make aircraft unsafe for flight.
• As needed, perform user- and organizational-level maintenance on assigned support equipment, including inspection, repair, modification, and corrosion prevention; inventory, control, store, and repair 780 equipment and maintain related records.
• Provide information for aircraft maintenance historical records, maintenance data collection, man-hour accounting, and required forms.
• Assist maintenance supply staff in identifying parts and stock numbers and obtaining parts and tools.
• Instruct, direct, and assign maintenance repair tasks to drill status Guard members; observe work and ensure compliance with procedures and technical publications.
• Comply with safety, fire, security, and housekeeping regulations and ensure materials and equipment are stored, protected, maintained, and secured.
• Prepare for and participate in readiness evaluations, inspections, mobility exercises, and command support exercises.
• May perform additional duties such as structural firefighting, aircraft fire/crash/rescue, security guard, snow removal, munitions handling, heavy equipment operation, facilities and equipment maintenance, or disaster and civil emergency response.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; eligibility and specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.
• Recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized up to 25%, subject to approval before employee in-processing.

What This Job Offers

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