Staff role
Aerospace Engineering Technician
Operate, install, adjust, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles. May record and interpret test data.
O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Avionics Installation Technician; Avionics Test Technician; Engineering Technician; Engineering Test Technician; Flight Test Instrument Technician; Instrumentation Technician; Systems Test Technician; Test Technician
Tasks
- Test aircraft systems under simulated operational conditions, performing systems readiness tests and pre- and post-operational checkouts, to establish design or fabrication parameters.
- Identify required data, data acquisition plans, and test parameters, setting up equipment to conform to these specifications.
- Inspect, diagnose, maintain, and operate test setups and equipment to detect malfunctions.
- Confer with engineering personnel regarding details and implications of test procedures and results.
- Operate and calibrate computer systems and devices to comply with test requirements and to perform data acquisition and analysis.
- Record and interpret test data on parts, assemblies, and mechanisms.
- Adjust, repair, or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment.
- Fabricate and install parts and systems to be tested in test equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and test instruments.
Knowledge
- Mechanical
- Engineering and Technology
- Mathematics
- Production and Processing
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administrative
- English Language
- Computers and Electronics
- Physics
- Education and Training
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
- Science
- Monitoring
- Mathematics
- Active Learning
Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Written Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Information Ordering
- Near Vision
- Written Expression
- Flexibility of Closure
- Perceptual Speed
- Visualization
- Category Flexibility
- Selective Attention
- Control Precision
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Clarity
- Fluency of Ideas
- Mathematical Reasoning
- Number Facility
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Manual Dexterity
- Finger Dexterity
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