Aviation Maintenance Technician - Weekends

Tasks: Read and interpret maintenance manuals, service bulletins, and other specifications to determine the feasibility and method of repairing or replacing malfunctioning or damaged components. Inspect completed work to certify that maintenance meets standards and that aircraft are ready for operation. Maintain repair logs, documenting all preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance. Conduct routine and special inspections as required by regulations. Examine and inspect aircraft components, including landing gear, hydraulic systems, and deicers to locate cracks, breaks, leaks, or other problems. Inspect airframes for wear or other defects. Maintain, repair, and rebuild aircraft structures, functional components, and parts such as wings and fuselage, rigging, hydraulic units, oxygen systems, fuel systems, electrical systems, gaskets, and seals. Measure the tension of control cables. Replace or repair worn, defective, or damaged components, using hand tools, gauges, and testing equipment. Measure parts for wear, using precision instruments. Assemble and install electrical, plumbing, mechanical, hydraulic, and structural components and accessories, using hand or power tools. Test operation of engines and other systems, using test equipment such as ignition analyzers, compression checkers, distributor timers, and ammeters. Obtain fuel and oil samples and check them for contamination. Reassemble engines following repair or inspection and reinstall engines in aircraft. Read and interpret pilots' descriptions of problems to diagnose causes. Modify aircraft structures, space vehicles, systems, or components, following drawings, schematics, charts, engineering orders, and technical publications. Install and align repaired or replacement parts for subsequent riveting or welding, using clamps and wrenches. Locate and mark dimensions and reference lines on defective or replacement parts, using templates, scribes, compasses, and steel rules. Clean, strip, prime, and sand structural surfaces and materials to prepare them for bonding. Service and maintain aircraft and related apparatus by performing activities such as flushing crankcases, cleaning screens, and lubricating moving parts. Remove or install aircraft engines, using hoists or forklift trucks. Inventory and requisition or order supplies, parts, materials, and equipment. Fabricate defective sections or parts, using metal fabricating machines, saws, brakes, shears, and grinders. Remove or cut out defective parts or drill holes to gain access to internal defects or damage, using drills and punches. Clean, refuel, and change oil in line service aircraft. Communicate with other workers to coordinate fitting and alignment of heavy parts, or to facilitate processing of repair parts. Trim and shape replacement body sections to specified sizes and fits and secure sections in place, using adhesives, hand tools, and power tools. Spread plastic film over areas to be repaired to prevent damage to surrounding areas. Accompany aircraft on flights to make in-flight adjustments and corrections.

Requirements: Must own basic set of hand tools

Physical Demands: Ability to lift/carry up to 50 lbs. routinely and up to 100 lbs. occasionally

Education & Experience: High school Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate)FAA issued Airframe and Powerplant endorsementFAA Inspection Authorization a plus Advancement based on satisfactory performance and operational requirement