This position is offering a $7500 recruitment bonus for qualified candidates. Graduate of the Air Force Aircrew Life Support, Survival Equipment or Aircrew Flight Equipment technical school or sister service equivalent is required.

The Air Force Civilian Service (AFCS) is looking for a Full-Time Aircraft Survival and Flight Equipment Repairer (WG-4818-10) to work at Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) in the 412th Operations Group, 412th Operations Support Squadron and the 420th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards AFB, CA. This federal job offers a rewarding and exciting career with benefits.

In this position you will serve as craftsman level Aircrew Flight Equipment Technician. Removes, installs, troubleshoots, modifies and inspects experimental research, development, test and evaluation aircrew night equipment systems involving oxygen systems, survival equipment, and aerial deployment systems involving personnel and cargo parachutes.

• Serves as production quality control inspector by inspecting the work of other technicians with authority to accept or reject work.
• Performs inspections, troubleshoots, disassembles, repairs, assembles and modifies highly complex aircrew flight equipment requiring strict adherence to technical orders and ensures exact critical tolerances are met in order to maintain aircrew safely.
• Responsible for maintaining the greatest variety of aircrew flight equipment of any flight within the Air Force to include multiple types of the following; flight helmets, oxygen masks, night vision devices, helmet mounted electronic targeting systems, anti-G suits, chemical and biological protective systems, survival kits that include emergency signaling and communication devices such as personnel locator beacons and satellite communication devices.
• Works with Program Managers and Test Engineers to develop new and or modify existing systems for aircraft that are experimental in nature and for which there is no technical precedent available.
• Develops new equipment technical orders and performs periodic review of current technical order guidance for use by field technicians during inspection of equipment.
• Maintain equipment on a wide variety of aircraft and models to include, F- 16, F-22, T-38, B-1, B-2, B-52, KC-135, KC-10, C-17, and C-130 and typically involve many components and assemblies with rigid specifications and close tolerances.
• Maintains inspection and accountability documentation on equipment issued to aircrews or prepositioned on aircraft.
• Designs, assembles, modifies, alters, various equipment made of fabric or webbing.
• Disassembles, assembles, inspects, fabricates, modifies, alters, cleans, repairs, and packs various freefall, ejection, cargo, drag, drogue and extraction parachutes.
• Utilizes a variety of complex state of the art diagnostic testers/systems/specialty tools.
• Inspects, modifies, cleans, repairs, and packs single place and multi-place life rafts, flotation equipment and other aerospace components.
• Serves as production inspector by performing documentation, quality control, critical points inspections and in-place inspections on all equipment.
• Maintains certification and remains proficient in handling, shipping, storing, and ordering multiple hazardous materials.
• Utilizes Equipment and Financial Processing Systems.
• Incorporates Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) field instruction for pilots/aircrew members into all survival training.
• Determines training schedules according to course control documents, directives, policies, and instructional principles. Ensures student safety. Conducts classroom, laboratory, and operational training.
• Conducts final academic classroom and technical instruction.
• May be required to perform additional duties such as structural fire-fighting, aircraft fire/crash/rescue duty, security guard, snow removal, munitions loading and handling, heavy equipment operation, maintenance of facilities and equipment, or serve as a ream member on boards to cope with natural dis asters or civil emergencies.
• May serve as a voting member of the accident mishap investigation boards and prepare related reports.

Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Obtain & maintain Security clearance
- Graduate of the Air Force Aircrew Life Support, Survival Equipment or Aircrew Flight Equipment technical school or sister service equivalent is required. Exemptions: FAA Senior or Master Rigger Certification or civil service experience in the Aircrew Life Support, Survival Equipment, or Aircrew Flight Equipment fields with at least two years’ experience in the past five years may fulfill this requirement.
- Knowledge of aircrew flight equipment inspections and maintenance procedures.
- Knowledge of parachute construction; temperature and humidity effects on parachutes and other fabrics.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $37.67 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Signing bonus

Application Question(s):

• Have you attended the Air Force Aircrew Life Support, Survival Equipment or Aircrew Flight Equipment technical school or sister service?
• Do you have FAA Senior or Master Rigger Certification or civil service experience in the Aircrew Life Support.

Work Location: In person