Description
Operate, install, adjust, 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.
- • 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.
- • Adjust, repair, or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment.
- • Identify required data, data acquisition plans, and test parameters, setting up equipment to conform to these specifications.
- • Construct and maintain test facilities for aircraft parts and systems, according to specifications.
- • Operate and calibrate computer systems and devices to comply with test requirements and to perform data acquisition and analysis.
- • 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.
- • Finish vehicle instrumentation and deinstrumentation.
- • Design electrical and mechanical systems for avionic instrumentation applications.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
