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Job Description
Operate, install, calibrate, 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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 71,070.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 34.00
- Currently, there are 11,970 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technicians
- Test Technician
- Systems Test Technician
- Spacecraft Systems Engineer
- Instrumentation Technician
- Engineering Technician
- Electronics Technician
- Communication Technician
- Calibration Technician
- Avionics Test Technician
- Avionics Technician
- Wind Tunnel Technician
- Wind Tunnel Mechanic
- Test Specialist
- Test Equipment Mechanic
- Radar Technician
- Project Engineer
- Flight Test Data Acquisition Technician
- Flight Technician
- Flight Readiness Technician
- Flight Data Technician
- Field Service Engineer
- Engineering Test Specialist
- Engineering Specialist Technician
- Engineering Operations Leader
- Data Acquisition Technician
- Certified Technician Specialist
- Altitude Chamber Technician
- Aerospace Technician
- Aerospace Physiological Technician
- Aerospace Mechanic
- Aerographer
Tasks for “Research Mechanic”
- Construct and maintain test facilities for aircraft parts and systems, according to specifications.
- Finish vehicle instrumentation and deinstrumentation.
- Inspect, diagnose, maintain, and operate test setups and equipment to detect malfunctions.
- 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.
- Confer with engineering personnel regarding details and implications of test procedures and results.
- Fabricate and install parts and systems to be tested in test equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and test instruments.
- Exchange cooling system components in various vehicles.
- Record and interpret test data on parts, assemblies, and mechanisms.
- Operate and calibrate computer systems and devices to comply with test requirements and to perform data acquisition and analysis.
- Adjust, repair or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment.
Related Technology & Tools
- Body harnesses
- Vixen files
- Mill files
- Digital torque wrenches
- Accelerometers
- Dial calipers
- Depth gauges
- Multi-axis mills
- Impact hammers
- Micrometers
- Borescopes
- Scribers
- Brazing hearths
- Small hole gauges
- Alignment squares
- Vibration testers
- Snap gauges
- Plug taps
- Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
- Telescopes
- Terminal computers
- Bore gauges
- Digital height gauges
- Vibration tables
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Offset screwdrivers
- Reed and Prince screwdrivers
- Wire crimpers
- Safety wire pliers
- Flow meters
- Telescoping gauges
- Fire extinguishers
- Dividers
- Countersinks
- Eddy current inspection equipment
- Brazing equipment
- Theodolites
- Overhead cranes
- Depth micrometers
- Flat head screwdrivers
- Socket wrenches
- Soldering irons
- Magnetic particle inspection equipment
- Shielded arc welding tools
- Safety lanyards
- Gauge blocks
- Personal computers
- Skin mills
- Adjustable wrenches
- Pressure gauges
- Purifying respirators
- V blocks
- Bleeder wrenches
- Riveting tools
- Hacksaws
- Vibration transducers
- Force transducers
- Torque wrenches
- Drill presses
- Twist drills
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Thickness gauges
- Knife files
- Prick punches
- Vernier calipers
- Ball peen hammers
- Bench vises
- Flat files
- Bubble emission inspection equipment
- Fluorescent penetrant inspection equipment
- Air drills
- Bottoming taps
- Torx drivers
- Straightedges
- Thermocouples
- Round files
- Forklifts
- Tri-squares
- Straight chisels
- Center punches
- Spring calipers
- Steel rules
- Pin punches
- Welding torches
- Ultrasonic inspection equipment
- Vertical turret lathes VTL
- Electronic torque testers
- Planer gauges
- Gamma ray testing equipment
- Digital force gauges
- Paint booths
- Split dies
- Hydrasets
- Aviation snips
- Box end wrenches
- Hand snips
- Voltmeters
- Annealing ovens
- Precision files
- Gantry mills
- Thread gauges
- Go/no-go gauges
- Soft face hammers
- Power screwdrivers
- Protractors
- Pyrotechnic initiators
- Mallets
- Plug gauges
- Accelerometer sensors
- Mass spectrometers
- Taper taps
- Dye penetrant inspection equipment
- Hook spanner wrenches
- Open end wrenches
- Gas arc welding equipment
- Strain gauge balances
- Lasers
- Aligning punches
- X ray inspection equipment
- Digital calipers
- Infrared inspection equipment
- Layout compasses
- Drive punches
- Combination wrenches
- Air-supplying respirators
- Safety goggles
- Allen wrenches
- Half-round files
- Scaffolding
- Gyroscopes
- Shot peening equipment
- Shakers
- Computerized numerical control CNC software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Vibration analysis software
- Data acquisition software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Microsoft Word
- Oracle Java
- Inventory software
- Microsoft Office
- Extensible markup language XML
- Structured query language SQL
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft SQL Server
- UNIX
- Microsoft Excel