Standard Job DescriptionYou will be the Flight Line Electrician - C130 for the team which is responsible for determining methods, tools, operations, and sequences necessary to rework, check out, and service complex aircraft electrical systems equipment.
What You Will Be DoingAs the Flight Line Electrician - C130, you will be responsible for mocking up, fabricating, and installing experimental systems and equipment and performing final flight-servicing, troubleshooting, and operational checkout before and after flight to ensure airworthiness and conformance to applicable design specifications.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conducting power plant runs or working with mechanics in conducting such runs; making adjustments and replacements of electrical components and accessories
- Investigating any malfunctioning of electrical equipment before and after flight test; analyzing systems and diagnosing trouble
- Performing necessary operations to correct trouble, including replacing or repairing defective components such as solenoids, selsyns, light bulbs, thermocouples, electric motors, fuses, and circuit breakers and instruments and gauges
- Checking output of ship's generator and functioning of aircraft electrical accessories to company and/or customer inspection when required
- Incorporating design changes into complex aircraft electrical systems, generators, and functional assemblies as called out in blueprints or other authorized documents
Who You AreThe ideal candidate will be a highly skilled and experienced electrician with a strong knowledge of complex aircraft systems and their components. You will have excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to read and interpret detail and assembly blueprints, charts, wiring diagrams, electrical handbooks, and other authorized documents, and the ability to utilize sophisticated state-of-the-art computerized system test equipment to diagnose and repair complex systems.
Further Information About This OpportunityMUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.
GA hourly
Basic QualificationsFour (4) years' experience within the past twelve (12) years in Flight Line Aircraft Electrical Systems maintenance, functional checkout, preflight, troubleshooting, and correction of flight squawks. Experience must have been actual flight line work on live Aircraft Electrical Systems.
The following education and/or experience which was received within the past twelve (12) years may be used to offset a portion of the first two (2) years of experience requirements as stated below:
o Aircraft technical school training may be included in the four (4) year minimum requirement for persons spending four (4) years in Military service.
o A two (2) year Associate Degree program in Aviation/Electrical Technology may be substituted for one (1) year of experience.
o A four (4) year Bachelors Degree program in Aviation/Electrical may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
o Each year of Active Reserve/National Guard Aircraft Electrical Systems duty may be substituted for two (2) months of experience up to a maximum of sixteen (16) months.
OR
A graduate, within the last six (6) months, of a certified Aircraft Systems Electrical/Electronics Apprenticeship Program which is typically 8,000 hours and includes OJT experience maintaining aircraft. LASCs 6,000 hours program is acceptable.
NOTE: "Live" aircraft refers to aircraft with all functional systems operable and with the aircraft's fuel and oxygen systems activated. "Live" aircraft experience includes working in the preparation for and release of aircraft for flight and includes knowledge of and experience in dealing with aircraft systems such as: fuel systems, liquid/gaseous oxygen, hydraulic, electrical, flight controls, landing gear, emergency egress equipment and engines
Desired SkillsC-130 Experience
Pay Information Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Additional specific benefits are dependent upon the business unit and the collective-bargaining agreement.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
