The Maintenance Test Pilot (UH-60 L) 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 demonstrating 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 makes appropriate write-ups or gives 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.
- Communicate, troubleshoot, advise, and work side by side with military pilots and technicians.
- Ferry flights as assigned.
- As qualified may perform as site safety specialist and/or additional duties safety officer functions.
- May be designate 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 pneudraulic systems including landing gear.
- Understand the fundamentals and inspection techniques of helicopter structural repairs.
- Perform troubleshooting and analyze electrical/electronic systems.
- Lectures, demonstrates, and practical exercises in inspection techniques, procedures, performance evaluation, and operational checks on the power plant, structure, and systems of helicopters powertrains.
- Provide 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.
- Perform other qualified duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
- 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-60).
- Satisfactorily completed a proficiency check within the previous 12 months.
- Successfully complete initially and annually thereafter an Army or FAA Class II flight physical.
- Possess an instrument rating on their FAA Commercial Certificates.
- Possess a current valid Army or 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 AFR55-22, NOTAMS, AR95-10, AR95-20 and DCMA-8210 pertaining to each aircraft prior to acting in the capacity of pilot-in-command on maintenance test flights.
- 1,000 or more hours of total flight time and have at least 300 hours in the same aircraft type and design and 100 hours in the assigned aircraft.
- Valid Passport for OCONUS travel
Clearance Requirements:
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a (Secret Clearance) US Government Clearance. US Citizenship is required to obtain s Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain and maintain facility credentials/authorization. US Citizenship is required for facility credentials/authorization at this work location.
Preferred/Physical Qualifications:
- Demonstrated proven and verifiable aviation experience including ethics, ability and professionalism of the highest standards are required for this position.
- Must have demonstrated communication skills, both oral and written. Must be fluent in the English language.
- Working knowledge for operating navigational and communication equipment installed on the aircraft.
- Capable of computing and annotating weight and balance logs for the aircraft.
- May be exposed to extreme noise from turbine and jet engine aircraft.
- May be exposed to fumes or airborne particles; may be exposed to electrical shock hazards or work near moving mechanical parts and vehicles.
- May be exposed to a wide variety of operational circumstances, including extreme weather conditions and rudimentary infrastructure.
- Must be able to distinguish color and judge three-dimensional depth.
- Must be able to see aircraft in flight, read dials/gauges, identify small objects and hand tools.
- Must be physically capable of climbing vertical ladders or built-in aircraft steps to heights of 10-12 feet.
- May be exposed to chemical mist, gas, vapors, ultra-violet and infrared radiation.
- May be required to lift to 50 pounds to a height of four (4) feet and be required to lift to 20 pounds to a height of seven (7) feet.
- May be exposed to certain obstructions on the surface as well as ladders, stairs, etc.
- May be exposed to rapid or extreme temperature changes.
- May be required to travel domestically and internationally on short notice, to austere environments, under harsh living conditions.
