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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
- Research Mechanic
- Radar Technician
- Project Engineer
- Flight Test Data Acquisition Technician
- Flight Technician
- Flight Readiness Technician
- Flight Data Technician
- 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 “Field Service Engineer”
- 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.
- Fabricate and install parts and systems to be tested in test equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and test instruments.
- Test aircraft systems under simulated operational conditions, performing systems readiness tests and pre- and post-operational checkouts, to establish design or fabrication parameters.
- 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.
- Construct and maintain test facilities for aircraft parts and systems, according to specifications.
- Record and interpret test data on parts, assemblies, and mechanisms.
- Exchange cooling system components in various vehicles.
- Confer with engineering personnel regarding details and implications of test procedures and results.
- Finish vehicle instrumentation and deinstrumentation.
Related Technology & Tools
- Vibration testers
- Brazing hearths
- Protractors
- Soft face hammers
- Gantry mills
- Shakers
- Voltmeters
- Plug taps
- Strain gauge balances
- Mill files
- Digital height gauges
- Eddy current inspection equipment
- Bore gauges
- Digital force gauges
- Scribers
- Tri-squares
- Drive punches
- Brazing equipment
- Body harnesses
- Aligning punches
- Dye penetrant inspection equipment
- Air-supplying respirators
- Hydrasets
- Drill presses
- Paint booths
- Steel rules
- Personal computers
- Welding torches
- Soldering irons
- Snap gauges
- Electronic torque testers
- Round files
- Thickness gauges
- Gyroscopes
- Prick punches
- Allen wrenches
- Power screwdrivers
- Aviation snips
- Accelerometer sensors
- Thread gauges
- Shielded arc welding tools
- Bench vises
- Safety wire pliers
- Mass spectrometers
- Planer gauges
- Small hole gauges
- Center punches
- Pin punches
- Plug gauges
- Hand snips
- Bleeder wrenches
- Fluorescent penetrant inspection equipment
- Digital torque wrenches
- Torque wrenches
- Flat files
- Purifying respirators
- Terminal computers
- Lasers
- Gas arc welding equipment
- Precision files
- Open end wrenches
- Force transducers
- Ball peen hammers
- Riveting tools
- Gauge blocks
- X ray inspection equipment
- Air drills
- Combination wrenches
- Depth gauges
- Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines
- Infrared inspection equipment
- Alignment squares
- Theodolites
- Scaffolding
- Hook spanner wrenches
- Overhead cranes
- Bottoming taps
- Split dies
- Knife files
- Thermocouples
- Micrometers
- Countersinks
- Offset screwdrivers
- V blocks
- Borescopes
- Safety lanyards
- Vibration transducers
- Depth micrometers
- Wire crimpers
- Impact hammers
- Pressure gauges
- Spring calipers
- Twist drills
- Digital calipers
- Telescopes
- Socket wrenches
- Forklifts
- Go/no-go gauges
- Safety goggles
- Adjustable wrenches
- Flat head screwdrivers
- Box end wrenches
- Bubble emission inspection equipment
- Fire extinguishers
- Magnetic particle inspection equipment
- Pyrotechnic initiators
- Skin mills
- Mallets
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Vibration tables
- Straightedges
- Multi-axis mills
- Vixen files
- Hacksaws
- Accelerometers
- Vertical turret lathes VTL
- Telescoping gauges
- Flow meters
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Layout compasses
- Reed and Prince screwdrivers
- Ultrasonic inspection equipment
- Gamma ray testing equipment
- Straight chisels
- Half-round files
- Taper taps
- Dividers
- Shot peening equipment
- Vernier calipers
- Annealing ovens
- Dial calipers
- Torx drivers
- UNIX
- Microsoft Word
- Vibration analysis software
- Computerized numerical control CNC software
- Structured query language SQL
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Oracle Java
- Extensible markup language XML
- Microsoft Excel
- Data acquisition software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Visio
- Inventory software
- Computer aided design CAD software