Aircraft Mechanic 3

The Aircraft Mechanic III provides aircraft Maintenance Support, Management, and Leadership for T-6C aircraft. **Essential Responsibilities:** * Interface with operational customer to develop flying schedules and plan major maintenance events, completes daily and monthly operational reports, documents inventory usage, controls workflow. * Work with other A&P Mechanics and technical representatives to trouble shoot, diagnose and solve unusual and complex maintenance problems. * Manage aircraft maintenance safety programs and serves as a member on the Safety Committee. * Ability to apply logic and good judgment, understand technical order diagrams and procedures, use test equipment for analysis of airframe, engine, flight control, pneudraulic, fuel, electrical/electronic systems, problems. * Plan and schedule aircraft utilization and maintenance activity and coordinates performance with operational customer. * Maintain accurate parts inventory. * Assign maintenance and repair tasks and monitors/evaluates their completion. * Supervises and performs aircraft jacking, lifting, and towing operations. * Inspects aircraft structures, systems, components, and related systems. * Supervises and performs aircraft and component inspections. * Interprets inspection findings and determines adequacy of corrective actions. * Perform and sign off aircraft safe for flight inspections. * Perform launch, recovery, scheduled and unscheduled inspections/maintenance. * Preflight/thru flight/BPO inspections, ground handling, minor maintenance, and servicing. * Perform routine troubleshooting, installation, repair and maintenance of all electro-mechanical systems and components on the aircraft at the organizational level of maintenance. * Services aircraft. Performs end-of-runway, post-flight, preflight, thru-flight, and phase inspections. * Troubleshoots and maintains aircraft structures, systems, components, and related equipment. * Removes and installs aircraft components. * Experience providing OJT to technicians. * Reviews maintenance forms, aircraft records, automated maintenance data systems, and historical reports to ensure complete documentation. * Removes/installs canopies, ejection seats, performs periodic maintenance of all cockpit egress and life support systems of moderate difficulty, such as seats, canopies, CADs, heating/cooling systems, utilizing hand tools.  * Inspects and operates powered and nonpowered aerospace ground equipment. * Performs Quality Verification Inspections (QVI) as needed * Perform and sign off aircraft safe for flight inspections. * Perform launch, recovery, scheduled and unscheduled inspections/maintenance. * Preflight/thru flight/BPO inspections, ground handling, minor maintenance, and servicing. * Perform routine troubleshooting, installation, repair and maintenance of all electro-mechanical systems and components on the aircraft at the organizational level of maintenance. * Services aircraft. Performs end-of-runway, post-flight, preflight, thru-flight, and phase inspections. * Troubleshoots and maintains aircraft structures, systems, components, and related equipment. * Removes and installs aircraft components. * Maintain aircraft support equipment and an orderly workspace. **Preferred Qualifications:** * Previous Aircraft Maintenance Expeditor experience. * Air Force 7/9 level Craftsman/Superintendent OR Navy/Marine Corps Collateral Duty Inspector (CDI). * IMDS/CAMS or related Maintenance Management System experience. **Minimum Qualifications:** * Must have current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airframe and Powerplant License (A&P). * Minimum of three (3) years of experience on T6 aircraft maintenance experience is required.  * Must have a broad working knowledge of aircraft maintenance, inspection techniques, FAA regulations, and Air Force technical publications. * Demonstrated leadership ability combined with attention to detail. * Must have knowledge of the scope and limitation of various categories of maintenance and their application. * Must know theory and principles of engine operations; accessories and components; theory of flight; rigging of flight controls; electrical and electronic; pneudraulic; and mechanical principles. * Knowledge of sheet metal, properties of materials, fuels, and oils. Ability to read, interpret and use manufacturers and aircraft maintenance manuals, service bulletins, blueprints, wiring/schematic diagrams, data tables and other specifications to determine feasibility and method to repair or replace malfunctioning or damaged components. * Must have a working knowledge of aircraft safety requirements and know how to operate portable firefighting equipment. * Must be familiar with Maintenance Information System (MIS) to retrieve and input information. * Must be able to obtain and maintain U.S. passport for facility credentials/authorization. NOTE: U.S. citizenship is required for facility credentials/authorization at this work site.