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