Job Description:
Title: Flight Technician
Flight Duties (to include travel with the aircraft or pre-positioning prior to aircraft arrival)
- Manage maintenance aspects of the trip to include routine maintenance, recommendations, and support to the pilots
- Provide minor aircraft maintenance to address discrepancies, meeting dispatch or MEL deferral requirements
- Provide an enhanced level of connectivity support for aircraft systems – (KA Band, Swift Broadband, Iridium, etc.)
- Communicate aircraft status to the on-duty Maintenance Coordinator at home base
- Track travel expenses and process expenses reports
- Travel is approximately 75% of job
Additional Non-Flight Duties
- Perform Pre-and Post-flight checks when required
- Coordinate travel plans with customer travel, and dispatch services.
- Complete, communicate, and log International Trip Debrief summaries after each trip
- Coordinate and oversee maintenance activities performed by outside vendors to include:
o Daily oversight of maintenance tasks
o Managing of task cards
o Data entry into customer Electronic Maintenance Oversight Log (EMOL)
o Communication of aircraft status to Maintenance Coordinator
o Participation in daily reviews and meetings related to the work being performed
o Final document review in preparation for return to service
o Participation in an established Risk Assessment process and test flight requirements as needed
- Assist with the audit and approval of external maintenance suppliers
- When required, provide maintenance task card signoffs and “approval for return to service” entries in aircraft flight log.
- For offsite coverage, manage Required Inspection Items (RII) utilizing established processes
- Attend weekly maintenance staff meetings as schedule allows
- Participate in AAR’s- After Action Reviews of maintenance events.
- Attend maintenance training as assigned
Requirements
- Applicant must possess an FAA Airframe and Powerplant certificate with 5 years experience on turbine powered aircraft.
- Strong working knowledge of Boeing 737 and or Challenger 650 series aircraft.
- Be able to pass a background, and drug screening checks
- Bi-lingual applicants a plus.
- Veteran of U.S. Military a plus.