Aircraft Avionics Lead

About the role

The Avionics Lead at AAR is responsible for ensuring the airworthiness of aircraft after maintenance at the facility. This role requires a Lead Technician who must be a certified A&P Technician, have an FCC certificate, or a Radio Repairman Operator certificate, depending on the work they supervise.

Responsibilities

• Available for consultation on aircraft-related matters.
• Ensures all required paperwork is completed and complies with regulations and procedures.
• Maintains equipment and ensures adequate safeguards are in place to protect customers' aircraft and equipment.
• Makes sure personnel under supervision perform their work correctly, efficiently, maintain quality, and ensure safety.
• Assists supervisors in evaluating personnel qualifications and status, and in managing manpower.
• Trains personnel on the job.
• Provides guidance and technical advice to assigned technicians.
• Coordinates with other departments to organize and control customer work packages and special considerations.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school, or four years of relevant experience and/or training.
• A current and active FAA A&P certificate, an FCC certificate, or a Radio Repairman Operator certificate, as applicable to the work being overseen.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Business Acumen: Utilizes financial data to diagnose business strengths and weaknesses and identify strategic implications.
• Managing Relationships: Builds trust, encourages open communication, and strengthens relationships with individuals.
• Adaptability: Maintains effectiveness during major changes in work responsibilities or environments.
• Continuous Learning: Identifies new learning opportunities, actively explores feedback, and takes full advantage of them.
• Safety Focus: Identifies and improves conditions affecting safety, upholds safety standards, and works to improve safety practices.
• Quality Orientation: Completes tasks by considering all aspects involved, no matter how detailed.
• Valuing Differences: Works effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, interpersonal styles, abilities, and motivations.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

• Constantly: Lifting 10 lbs., standing, walking, wrist flexion and extension, environmental weather conditions.
• Frequently: Lifting ≤40 lbs., push/pull 20", basic depth perception (shapes), working at elevated heights ≥4', working on ladders, scaffolding, uneven surfaces, and energized parts.
• Occasionally: Lifting and/or carrying ≤50 lbs., sitting, basic color vision, operating motorized or electrical equipment, push/pull.

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: Associate's degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school, or four years of relevant experience and/or training.
• Required Certificates: Current and active FAA A&P certificate, an FCC certificate, or a Radio Repairman Operator certificate, as applicable to the work being overseen.

Equal Opportunity Employer

AAR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.