The
Aircraft Technical Inspector (HH60) is responsible for ensuring that assigned aircraft are maintained within required specifications and are airworthy before operation. Inspects repairs and modification of aircraft structures, structural components, and engines of complex to extreme difficulty.
- Plans, conducts, and supervises aircraft technical inspections.
- Develops and implements quality control and ground safety programs to ensure compliance with contract specifications.
- Evaluates personnel, including verification of skills, training, and experience.
- Performs audits and inspections of work centers and ongoing maintenance actions, procedures, equipment, and facilities.
- Examines parts and components for conformance to design specification to determine serviceability; serviceable, unserviceable-reparable, unserviceable-non reparable, affixing completed appropriate form/tag for disposition; return to stock, route to appropriate shop for repair and/or turn-in. Form/tag will contain comment relative to evaluation and be stamped by the Inspector.
- Monitors timeliness and applicability of maintenance technical data and technical library.
- Reviews maintenance source documents, inspection records, notes recurring discrepancies, or trends and initiates appropriate action.
- Manages the material deficiency and technical order improvement program.
- Reviews engineering investigation requests.
- Initiates and reviews quality deficiency reports, technical deficiency reports and hazardous material reports, ensuring that they are accurate, clear, concise and comprehensive.
- Conducts safety inspections, training, and drills. Inspects and verifies proper completion and documentation of safety and flight discrepancies.
- Briefs and debriefs pilots and crew members assigned to functional check flights.
- Participates in maintenance test flights and operation checks as required.
- Ensures compliance with aircraft configuration control, Army oil analysis Program and test measuring diagnostic equipment calibration.
- Provides lower-level technicians guidance in aircraft repair and technical inspection techniques and procedures according to directives, technical manuals, work standards and operational policies throughout all aircraft modifications and/or maintenance efforts.
- Prepares evaluations, special reports, and records pertaining to aircraft maintenance repair and related activities.
- Make entries in aircraft logs and records.
- Perform other qualified duties as requested.