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AIRFIELD SYSTEMS

Installs, removes, relocates, modifies, deploys, and maintains fixed and mobile meteorological, navigation and air traffic control ground-to-air radio systems.

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Duties And Responsibilities
Duties And Responsibilities
Supervises meteorological and navigation systems maintenance activities. Oversees work in progress and reviews completed repairs for sound maintenance practices. Establishes requirements for maintenance and support equipment, tools and spare parts. Requisitions, accounts for, and turns in supplies and material. Diagnoses and recommends equipment repair, replacement or depot overhaul. Certifies navigation facilities after repair actions or flight inspections. Interprets inspection findings and determines adequacy of corrective action. Reviews and ensures compliance with maintenance management publications and procedures. Develops and enforces safety standards for Airfield Systems activities. Resolves technical problems and improves maintenance methods and techniques. Interprets technical specifications and provides guidance. Solves technical problems requiring interpretation of schematic, logic and wiring diagrams. Installs, removes and relocates Airfield Systems equipment. Studies system characteristics, local terrain, and planned base facilities and requirements. Determines equipment position based on plans, diagrams and specifications. Checks and inventories equipment and project materials for serviceability. Assembles, connects and wires components, assemblies and antenna systems. Performs operational tests, and adjusts and aligns equipment. Completes commissioning flight inspections for navigational aids. Places Airfield Systems equipment in operation. Prepares equipment for deployment. Deploys, sets up, and activates transportable Airfield Systems equipment. Completes navigation systems flight inspections. Places systems in operation. Maintains Airfield Systems equipment. Uses specialized test equipment and software controlled diagnostics to isolate malfunctions. Repairs mechanical and electrical assemblies and subassemblies. Tunes, aligns, and adjusts equipment. Completes flight inspections on navigational aids. Cleans and lubricates equipment. Performs corrosion control. Modifies equipment in accordance with technical directives. Completes performance tests and evaluates results to ensure proper system operation. Initiates action to correct unsatisfactory equipment performance trends. Maintains inspection and maintenance records. Posts entries on maintenance and inspection records. Records and reviews meter readings, test results, and historical data in equipment records. Completes and reviews maintenance data collection and equipment status reporting forms. Evaluates and recommends methods to improve technical data, system performance, and maintenance procedures. Manages, supervises, and performs planning and implementation activities. Manages implementation and project installation and ensures architecture, configuration, and integration conformity. Develops, plans, and integrates base communications systems. Serves as advisor at meetings for facility design, military construction programs and minor construction planning. Evaluates base comprehensive plan and civil engineering projects. Monitors status of base civil engineer work requests. Performs mission review with customers. Controls, manages, and monitors project milestones and funding from inception to completion. Determines adequacy and correctness of project packages and amendments. Monitors project status and completion actions. Manages and maintains system installation records, files, and indexes. Evaluates contracts, wartime, support, contingency and exercise plans to determine impact on manpower, equipment, and systems.



SPECIALTY QUALIFICATIONS INFO

Specialty Qualifications

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Specialty Qualifications
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: discrete and integrated electronic components and schematic diagram and logic symbols; electronic principles; microprocessors; data processing; mathematics principles required to solve electronic formulas; Boolean algebra theory and number systems; analog and digital electronic circuits; advanced troubleshooting techniques; principles of meteorological and navigation systems maintenance; use of technical data and blueprints; system block, data flow, schematic, logic, and interconnecting wiring diagrams; principles and use of test equipment and diagnostic systems; and advanced soldering techniques.

Education. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school is mandatory. Additional courses in physics, mathematics and a basic knowledge of computers is desirable.



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