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