Maintenance Test Pilot; UH-L​/M JBLM, WA

Maintenance Test Pilot (UH-60 A/L/M) JBLM, WA

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The Maintenance Test Pilot (UH-60A/L/M) 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.

• 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 pneumatic 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 helicopter 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.
• Ensure proper documentation is chronicled.
• Adheres to company policies and safety programs (Safety-first mentality).

• 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-6).
• 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…