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Maintenance

The Maintenance position leads, trains and equips personnel supporting aerospace equipment sustainment and operations, and also manages maintenance and modification of aircraft, munitions, missiles, and associated equipment. Manages missile maintenance activities at launch and missile alert facilities, including maintenance, repair, and inspection of missile flight systems, expendable launch vehicles (ELV), nuclear certified support vehicles and equipment, and associated ground support equipment (SE).

Duties and Responsibilities

The Maintenance team directs aircraft, munitions, and missile maintenance operations activities, developing, coordinating and executing flying and maintenance schedules. Aircraft Maintenance Supervisors are responsible for managing aircraft configuration, including daily aircraft servicing, weapons loading, launch, recovery and repair. Aircraft Maintenance Supervisors also perform periodic aircraft maintenance inspections and organize flightline safety and foreign object damage (FOD) prevention programs, helping them maintain overall aircraft fleet health and ensure aircraft availability to execute mission requirements.

In addition, the Maintenance team coordinates key core logistics requirements supporting aircraft and missile maintenance operations, and establishes support requirements for supply requisition, repair cycle, delivery, combat support, ground and aerial port transportation, base support plans and munitions requirements.

Civilian Opportunities

Civilian Aircraft Maintenance Supervisor

Duties and Responsibilities

Supervise and coordinate activities of Airframe and Power Plant Mechanics, who are engaged in maintaining and repairing aircraft and aircraft engines. They train employees in work methods and procedures, inspect work to maintain specified standards and quality and requisition materials and supplies. They may supervise workers engaged in servicing aircraft with fuel, lubricants and coolants. Supervisors must generally have 4-10 years experience as an airframe or power plant mechanic.

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