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Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Job Description
The UH-60 A/L/M MTP - Maintenance Test Pilot (UH-60) utilizes flight test techniques to perform test flights of aircraft to measure performance and handling to determine airworthiness following maintenance or modifications.
Minimum Requirements for Hire:
Physical Requirements/Working Environment:
- Perform test flights and demonstrating aircraft proficiency upon completion of aircraft maintenance or modifications on aircraft.
- Interpret meteorological data as it pertains to filing a flight plan for the navigational course of flight needed for a mission or sortie.
- File flight plans for all flights using authorized navigational processes.
- Compute weight and balance logs for the aircraft being flown.
- Initiate and complete all military flight or maintenance forms to document maintenance test flight completion and discrepancies.
- Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.
- Determine in accordance with publications and procedures the airworthiness of aircraft prior to release for flight.
- Communicate, troubleshoot, advise and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.
- Perform recovery flights and ferries aircraft to additional sites, such as depots.
- Perform troubleshooting procedures of aircraft on the ground and during flight and makes appropriate write-ups or gives verbal instructions to correct deficiencies.
- Run-up aircraft for alert status to perform test on modifications.
- Deploy when required to support contract requirements when maintenance test flights are anticipated.
- Ferry flights as assigned
- As qualified may perform as site safety specialist and/or additional duties safety officer functions.
- May support AS9100-AS9110 internal audits, corrective action requests, assist section, department, and/or program in developing plans to correct identified shortfalls.
- May assist with continual improvement initiatives.
- As qualified may perform Chief or Lead pilot duties as designated by the Site Supervision.
- Must be capable of Aircraft Technical Inspection (TI) as additional duty.
- Plan and conduct aircraft technical inspections.
- Inspect power plant hot section, cold section and accessory modules.
- Provide technical guidance to repairs performing aircraft and subsystem maintenance techniques and safety procedures.
- Maintains technical library, inspect systems, subsystems, and components according to applicable technical publications and checklists before, during and after airplane maintenance and modifications.
- Evaluate operational readiness of aircraft and recommend corrective action.
- Inspect crash-damaged aircraft and estimates time, parts and costs to repair.
- Evaluate maintenance operations and facilities for compliance with directives, technical manuals, work standards, safety procedures, and operational policies.
- Performs maintenance trend analysis and applies production control, quality control and other maintenance management principles and procedures to aircraft maintenance operations.
- Perform other qualified duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements for Hire:
- Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of 1000 hours of PIC preferred.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of aviation maintenance experience required.
- Proficient in flying operations of the (UH60 A/L/M) aircraft.
- Completed military flight and applicable training courses as required IAW 95-20
- Satisfactorily completed a proficiency check within the previous 12 months.
- Successfully complete initially and annually thereafter an Army or FAA Class II flight physical.
- Possess an instrument rating on their FAA Commercial Certificates.
- Possess a current valid Army or FAA Class II Medical Certificate.
- Successfully completed Army Maintenance Test Pilots Course (MTPC) or complete an equivalency evaluation IAW AR 95-1 and 95-20.
- Successfully completed the US Army Aircraft Maintenance Officers Course (AMOC) Phase II or complete an equivalency evaluation IAW AR 95-1 and 95-20.
- Active Secret Clearance required and the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret Clearance.
- Demonstrated proven and verifiable aviation experience including ethics, ability and professionalism of the highest standards are required for this position.
- Must have demonstrated communication skills, both oral and written. Must be fluent in the English language.
- Working knowledge for operating navigational and communication equipment installed on the aircraft.
- Capable of computing and annotating weight and balance logs for the aircraft.
Physical Requirements/Working Environment:
- May be exposed to extreme noise from turbine and jet engine aircraft.
- May be exposed to fumes or airborne particles; may be exposed to electrical shock hazards or work near moving mechanical parts and vehicles.
- May be exposed to a wide variety of operational circumstances, including extreme weather conditions and rudimentary infrastructure.
- Must be able to distinguish color and judge three-dimensional depth.
- Must be able to see aircraft in flight, read dials/gauges, identify small objects and hand tools.
- Must be physically capable of climbing vertical ladders or built-in aircraft steps to heights of 10-12 feet.
- May be exposed to chemical mist, gas, vapors, ultra-violet and infrared radiation.
- May be required to lift to 50 pounds to a height of four (4) feet and be required to lift to 20 pounds to a height of seven (7) feet.
- May be exposed to certain obstructions on the surface as well as ladders, stairs, etc.
- May be exposed to rapid or extreme temperature changes.
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