QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Hold a mechanic certificate with both Airframe & Powerplant ratings.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is frequently required to walk; sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Must be able to read prints and check color coded equipment while working on aircraft installations.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places; and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of radiation. While performing the duties of this job, there is a slight risk of electrical shock.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Sometimes gets very loud while working around running aircraft engines.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
COMMENTS:
- USA Jet Airlines, Inc. Aircraft Maintenance personnel must be able to travel on short notice to perform line maintenance and/or aircraft recovery/repairs as needed. This will require having an overnight bag packed at all times and being ready to travel with little or no notice, for indefinite periods of time.
- As part of the above-referenced travel requirements, Aircraft Maintenance Personnel must have a valid passport within 90 days of hire at USA Jet Airlines, Inc. at the employee’s expense.
- To be able to perform the job of an Aircraft Mechanic/Technician, employees are required to possess the minimum tools as outlined on departmental tool list.
- As part of the job responsibilities of an Aircraft Mechanic/Technician, new hires will be required to complete the TSA Security Training Program, which is provided by USA Jet Airlines.
- Must be able to successfully pass an initial, and random, Drug and Alcohol screening process as required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and a Fingerprint Based Criminal History Records Check (CHRC) and/or Security Threat Assessment (STA) as required by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
- USA Jet Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.