Aircraft Maintenance Technician

Job Description

The Massachusetts Department of State Police is seeking an Aircraft Maintenance Technician with demonstrated avionics experience. Incumbents will perform, schedule, and track maintenance of aircraft in state service.

• Inspect completed maintenance work and pre-flight and post-flight aircraft to determine if aircraft in state service meet FAA regulations for airworthiness and to certify the results of such inspection.
• Inspect airframes and power plant parts for wear or other defects, fabricate parts and test aids as required, and follow work cards, checklists, drawings, and diagrams to make repairs and modifications in compliance with manufacturer’s specifications.
• Maintain maintenance logs and records to document all preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance in accordance with FAA regulations and applicable federal and state aviation laws, regulations, rules and standards. Maintain inventories of parts, supplies and materials required for the care and upkeep of aircraft in state service.
• Exercise quality control by using precision instruments, circuit testers, oscilloscopes, voltmeters, borescopes and other appropriate devices to measure parts for wear and acceptable tolerances, measure tension of control cables, and test instruments, components, assemblies, materials and equipment to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and requirements and to investigate the source(s) of operating problems.
• Read and interpret maintenance manuals, airworthiness directives, service bulletins, compliance standards and manufacturers’ specifications to collaborate with colleagues on testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, overhauling and replacing worn, defective, malfunctioning or damaged aircraft, equipment, assemblies, parts and components and oversee aircraft maintenance and repair work performed by contractors and vendors.
• Set up and operate ground support and test equipment to perform functional flight tests of electrical and electronic systems and dynamic components.
• Interpret flight test data to diagnose malfunctions and systemic performance problems and accompany pilots on flights to collect quality assurance data relative to aircraft, instrument and equipment performance.
• Troubleshoot problems and concerns about the safety and security of aircraft and avionics equipment, parts, assemblies, systems, components, fuel, and materials by observing quality assurance guidelines, making recommendations about their use, storage, maintenance, deterioration, discard and upgrade, and conferring with pilots, crews, and public safety and transportation officials.
• Attend recommended factory qualification courses and other professional training and certification courses necessary to properly service and repair public aircraft, components and equipment.
• Perform basic groundskeeping and service maintenance tasks necessary to maintain acceptable flight conditions and operations such as de-icing aircraft, removing snow, ice, dirt and debris from components, ways, ports, access roads, gates, entrances, exits, floors, bays, docks, containers and building interiors, exteriors and surrounding grounds.

• Knowledge of the FAA-mandated principles, practices, methods and techniques for inspecting public aircraft.
• Knowledge of the FAA benchmarks and ratings associated with certifying the airworthiness of public aircraft.
• Knowledge of the FAA standards for inspecting airframes and power plant parts;
  Knowledge of principles, practices and techniques used to fabricate parts and make repairs and modifications to airframes and power plant parts and components.
• Knowledge of FAA, federal and state aviation regulations and standards for documentation and recordkeeping relative to preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance activities;
  Knowledge of metric weights and measures.
• Knowledge of industry standard practices for maintaining an inventory of parts, supplies, tools, instruments and materials commonly used in aircraft maintenance.
• Knowledge of basic groundskeeping techniques and tools, devices, and materials used to deice aircraft and remove ice, snow, dirt and debris from equipment, components, hangars, ports, ways and grounds.
• Knowledge of occupational safety and hygiene principles, practices and standards for working and handling materials on shop floors and in maintenance and repair facilities.
• Ability to conduct tests, evaluations and inspections in conformance with applicable regulatory and policy and procedural guidelines.

First consideration will be given to those applicants that apply within the first 14 days.

Applicants must have (A) three years of experience in the maintenance of turbine powered aircraft and (B) a high school diploma or equivalency certificate from an accredited institution or governmental unit; or (C) a combination of the required experience and one of the substitutions below.

• Graduation from an FAA-certified Aviation Maintenance Technician…