Maintenance Test Pilot; LUH-CBA - Barstow, CA

The Maintenance Test Pilot (UH-72 A/B) utilizes flight test techniques to perform test flights of aircraft to measure performance and handling to determine airworthiness following maintenance or modifications.

• Perform test flights and demonstrate aircraft proficiency upon completion of aircraft maintenance or modifications on aircraft.

• Determine in accordance with publications and procedures the airworthiness of aircraft prior to release for flight.

• Perform recovery flights and ferries aircraft to additional sites, such as depots.

• Perform troubleshooting procedures of aircraft on the ground and during flight and make appropriate write-ups or give verbal instructions to correct deficiencies.

• Verify forms and records used in the performance of maintenance to ensure they comply with work performed prior to ground or flight checks.

• Run-up aircraft for alert status to perform test on modifications.

• Deploy when required to support contract requirements when maintenance test flights are anticipated.

• Interpret meteorological data as it pertains to filing a flight plan for the navigational course of flight needed for a sortie and files a flight plan for all flights using authorized processes.

• Ensure proper documentation is chronicled.

• 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.

• Ferry flights as assigned.

• If qualified, may perform as site safety specialist and/or additional duties safety officer functions.

• May be designated as a Foreign Object Elimination/Foreign Object Debris (FOE/FOD) Program Administrator.

• 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.

• 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.
  • Operate and inspect pneudraulic systems including landing gear.
  • Understand the fundamentals and inspection techniques of helicopter structural repairs.
  • Perform troubleshooting and analyze electrical/electronic systems.
  • Lectures, demonstrates, and conducts practical exercises in inspection techniques, procedures, performance evaluation, and operational checks on the power plant, structure, and systems of helicopters powertrains.
  • Provides 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.
  • Check and troubleshoot systems.
  • Annotate records of required maintenance.
  • Evaluate operational readiness of aircraft and recommend corrective action.
  • Inspect crash-damaged aircraft and estimates time, parts, and costs to repair.
  • Ensure compliance with aircraft configuration control, Army oil analysis program and test measuring and diagnostic calibration.
  • 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.

• Maintains the supplies and perform preventive maintenance.

• Perform other qualified duties as requested.

• Adheres to company policies and safety programs (Safety-first mentality)

Minimum Requirements:

• Completed military flight and applicable training courses as required IAW 95-20

• Must meet the qualification requirements of AR 95-20.

• Minimum of Ten (10) years of aviation maintenance experience required.

• Prefer a minimum of 1000 Hours of Pilot in Command time.

• Be proficient in flying operations of the aircraft they are assigned (UH-72).

• Satisfactorily completed a proficiency check within the previous 12 months.

• Successfully complete initially and annually thereafter an FAA Class II flight physical.

• Possess an instrument rating on their FAA Commercial Certificates.

• Possess a current valid 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.

• Must meet the experience requirements of AFR
  55-22, NOTAMS, AR95-10, AR95-20 and DCMA-8210 pertaining to each aircraft prior to acting in the capacity of pilot-in-command on maintenance test flights.

• 1,000 or more hours of total flight time and…