Calibration Specialist; Aviation

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, we apply our ingenuity and know-how to find solutions for the simple to the most complex challenges in aviation. Together, we get the job done, and done well. With our stability, resources, and culture of respect, you'll have the support you need to build a solid career with a great team you can count on day in and day out, for the long term.

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.

• 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, troubleshoot, repair, 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

• Minimum 3 - 5 years experience calibrating / adjusting electronic or physical / dimensional test and
  measurement equipment.
• Thorough knowledge of precision inspection, measuring, and test instruments and systems.
  Precision Measurement Equipment (PME), Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE)
• Knowledge of calibration and certification principles, root cause analysis principles, and application of calibration technical data principles in the field of Metrology.
• Resolves problems through work with customers, vendors, and management.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, proficient with MS-Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)
• 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.
• Ability to apply established techniques and methods of repair, testing, alignment and calibration of equipment. Able to use electronic circuits, transducer, pressure, torque, optics, flow, dimensional, hardness, vibration measuring equipment, etc. to measure parameters to determine the performance characteristics and accuracy of other instruments and test equipment.
• Ability to use computers and metrology-based data collection systems to document, track and store data necessary for traceability, quality management requirements and third party laboratory certification requirements.
• Able to maintain tools and a safe work environment. Able to understand and use Safety Data Sheets and PPE.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret blueprints.
• Thorough understanding of Measurement Uncertainty.
• Thorough knowledge of Statistical Techniques applicable to metrology.

• Experience in an aerospace or manufacturing environment…