Calibration Specialist Aviation

JOB DESCRIPTION

Build an Aviation Career You’re Proud Of

Explore a career where you’re challenged and have access to exciting engineering projects that stretch your talents. You’ll design and create new systems and technologies to help solve complex aviation problems. Our expert team and supportive leaders give you the trust and independence to do your best work.

Design, test, and implement advanced technologies to improve aircraft performance, safety, and reliability, so we continue to deliver excellent aviation solutions. You’ll collaborate with other departments to ensure that our products and services meet the highest industry standards.

As a Calibration Specialist (Aviation) , you’ll plan, document, and implement methods related to the verification and calibration of inspection, measuring, and test equipment. Ensures continued compliance to standards of all inspection, measuring, and test equipment by performing the registration, identification, inspection, and calibration of all tools and instrumentation used by the company.

POSITION OVERVIEW/JOB DUTIES:

• Recognize and understands flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Be responsible for immediately reporting flight/product safety concerns.
• Participate in proactive risk analysis of flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Recognize and understand the Just Culture policy.
• Register, maintain, calibrate/inspect, and apply identification markings to inspection equipment technical data and procedures.
• Monitor and adjust calibration frequencies for optimal equipment performance and minimal downtime.
• Designs and maintains calibration procedures for inspection, measuring, and test equipment.
• Investigate and source qualified subcontractors for tooling which cannot be repaired or calibrated in-house.
• Inspect, troubleshoots, repairs, overhauls, modifies and aligns to original manufacture specifications, customer technical instruction or local engineering instructions, a variety of equipment ranging from common to unusually complex electronic and physical/dimensional TMDE.
• Provide technical advice in the selection, maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and calibration of new and existing inspection, measuring, and test equipment.
• Calibrate and certify a variety of (TMDE) Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment ranging from common to complex laboratory base reference standards. Perform verification and calibration on complex and intricate measuring and test equipment.
• Maintain records and documents of all registered equipment, their calibration schedules and results traceable to the requirements of applicable standards.
• Prepare calibration data reports, data sheets, and other required documentation.
• Quarantine items found unserviceable, of poor quality, or those that cannot be maintained.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety requirements. PPE and procedures following established safety rules and regulations. Maintains tools and a safe and clean work environment. Reports immediately any unsafe practices/conditions.
• Employee may be required to work extended or other than normal duty hours to include evenings and weekends and may be subject to recall.
• Carries out special projects as assigned.
• Subject to ITAR. US Citizenship required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Thorough knowledge of precision inspection, measuring, and test instruments and systems. Precision Measurement Equipment (PME), Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE)
• Ability to use the full complement of applicable company instructions, company processes, and regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of calibration and certification principles, root cause analysis principles, and application of calibration technical data principles in the field of Metrology.
• Good planning, organizational, analytical, interpersonal, decision making, oral, and written communication skills.
• High degree of mechanical aptitude, accuracy, and precision.
• Working knowledge of electronic systems and control instruments. Knowledge of circuit schematics, diagrams and detailed drawings to effectively calibrate and certify a variety of complex precision measurement equipment, instruments, and reference standards.
• Abili…