Aircraft Maintenance Officer

Leads, trains and equips personnel supporting aircraft sustainment and operations and also manages maintenance and modification of aircraft and associated equipment. PAY CHART

DUTIES

Aircraft maintenance officers direct aircraft maintenance operations activities, as well as develop, coordinate and execute flying and maintenance schedules. They are responsible for managing aircraft configuration, including daily aircraft servicing, weapons loading, launch, recovery and repair. They also perform periodic aircraft maintenance inspections and organize flight-line safety and foreign object damage (FOD) prevention programs, helping them maintain overall aircraft fleet health and ensure aircraft availability to execute mission requirements.

In addition, aircraft maintenance officers coordinate key core logistics requirements supporting aircraft maintenance operations and establish support requirements for supply requisition, repair cycle, delivery, combat support, ground and aerial port transportation, base support plans and munitions requirements.

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