Examine, inspect, measure, clean, and polish landing gear and wheel and brake components or assemblies to include but not limited to B-1, B-2, C-5, C-17, C-130, F-15, and F-16 components. Additional Aircraft Worker requirements are as follows:
- Clean and polish ferrous and non-ferrous components
- Perform chemical etching of Integrated Servo Actuator (ISA) pistons
- Prepare or initiate routing and WCDs for scheduling and production to enable the work to proceed.
- Upon return of the parts, assures the required repairs and modifications have been performed and certified before releasing parts for assembly.
- Examine a wide variety of incoming parts and/or assemblies to determine the type and amount of repair and modification necessary to assure compliance with pertinent technical orders and blueprints in which all technical requirements for a particular assembly are consolidated; consider special management programs and agreements such as routed item plan, the Management of Items Subject to Repair (MISTR) Program, and DART, which have differing work requirements and provides for the addition or elimination of technical work operations
- Inspect parts using such measuring equipment as micrometers, dial indicator depth gauges, go-no-go plugs, thread gauges, and other similar precision measuring equipment
- Determine condition status such as serviceable, repairable, condemned, or special status repairable
- On repairable items, reference the particular repair procedures to be followed by each support shop to assure item will meet final acceptance criteria and route and sequence of operations to be performed
- Preparation, finishing, plating, blasting, or repairing of damaged finishes on aircraft surfaces, components, and landing gear IAW drawings, blueprints, engineering specifications, technical orders, process orders, sketches, manufacturers’ manuals, laboratory analysis reports, and other Government formats, and completes the tasks within specified time frames
The Aircraft Worker makes repairs to aircraft following orders of higher grade worker, assists in troubleshooting malfunctions in aircraft structure, landing gear, flight surfaces and controls, anti-icing, pneudraulic, engines, auxiliary power unit, and ventilation and heating systems, removes, cleans, reinstalls, or replaces defective parts, accessories, and components such as worn gaskets, couplings, and fittings, bad actuators, accumulators, gauges, sections of corroded fuel and oil lines, This worker may supervise the jacking and towing of aircraft, makes adjustments and settings such as cable tension and seat movement settings and adjustments; obtains standard parts such as fuel and oil line connections and fittings, cable linkage, and spark plug cables and harnesses by referring to parts manuals and by making comparisons with samples, may perform pre-flight, thru-flight, and post-flight maintenance inspections, enter in the maintenance records description of the work performed, and services engines and aircraft components at line station making repairs, short of overhaul required to keep aircraft in safe operating condition.