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4-Year Bonus: $None

6-Year Bonus: $10,000

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Open Aptitude Category

Mechanical and Electrical

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Demographics

Males: 2911

Females: 336

Total: 3247

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Duties and Responsibilities

Performs scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on AGE. Inspects, tests, and operates AGE to determine equipment serviceability and proper operation.

Diagnoses mechanical and electronic circuitry malfunctions using visual and auditory senses, test equipment, and technical publications. Removes, disassembles, repairs, cleans, treats for corrosion, assembles, and reinstalls AGE accessories and components.

Stencils and marks AGE. Services equipment with fuel, oil, coolant, water, hydraulic fluid, and air. Operates, cleans, inspects, and services AGE towing vehicles. Maintains vehicle forms. Provides dispatch service for AGE, including positioning equipment to support aircraft maintenance and flying operations.

Diagnoses malfunctions and repairs AGE. Evaluates and performs troubleshooting on AGE before assigning repair action. Inspects and approves completed maintenance actions. Prepares AGE for storage, shipment, and mobility deployment.

Solves repair problems by studying drawings, wiring diagrams and schematics, and technical publications. Uses automated maintenance system to monitor maintenance trends, analyze equipment requirements, maintain equipment records, and document maintenance actions.

Analyzes and repairs ground support equipment using conventional and digital multimeters, voltmeters, ohmmeters, oscilloscopes, circuit card testers and hand tools. Maintains AGE external fuel and grounding systems. Performs battery serviceability checks. Stores, handles, uses, and disposes of hazardous material and waste according to environmental standards.


Plans and organizes AGE maintenance activities. Establishes production controls and standards. Interprets and implements policy directives and instructions pertaining to maintenance, including environmentally safe maintenance practices. Determines resource requirements, including facilities, training, equipment, and supplies.

Inspects maintenance activities, evaluates resource use, and recommends corrective actions. Determines equipment serviceability criteria when it does not exist.

Specialty Qualifications

Knowledge is mandatory of: 

• Principles of electricity, electronics, general mechanics, heating, refrigeration, pneumatics, hydraulics, and reciprocating and turbine engines.
• Troubleshooting, inspecting, repairing, and modifying equipment.
• Use of automated maintenance systems.
• Application of maintenance management techniques.
• Interpretation of maintenance directives, technical publications, drawings, wiring diagrams and schematics.
• Proper identification, handling, use, and disposal of hazardous waste materials.

• 2A652. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 2A632. Also, experience in functions such as inspecting, modifying, or repairing AGE.
  
• 2A672. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 2A652. Also, experience performing or supervising functions such as inspecting, modifying, repairing, or troubleshooting AGE.
  
• 2A692. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 2A672. Also, experience managing AGE functions and activities.
  

• Normal color vision as defined in AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards.
  
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license to operate government motor vehicles (GMV) in accordance with AFI 24-301, Vehicle Operations.
  

• Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.

Civilian Career Options

High Salary: $115,640

Low Salary: $30,060

• Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians: $68,570
• Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians: $66,440
• Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants: $26,540
• Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics: $44,050
• Avionics Technicians: $67,840
• Control and Valve Installers and Repairers: $60,580
• Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers: $36,390
• Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment: $70,200
• Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment: $62,010
• Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers: $36,390
• Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles: $39,570
• Electronics Engineers: $107,540
• Engine and Other Machine Assemblers: $45,770
• First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers: $70,240
• First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers: $62,850
• General and Operations Managers: $103,650
• Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers: $50,590
• Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers: $31,760
• Industrial Machinery Mechanics: $55,490
• Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers: $40,460
• Maintenance and Repair Workers, General: $40,850
• Maintenance Workers, Machinery: $50,100
• Non-Destructive Testing Specialists: $64,190
• Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic: $37,530
• Tire Repairers and Changers: $30,060
• Training and Development Managers: $115,640
• Training and Development Specialists: $62,700
• Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors: $78,400

***This information was retrieved from Veterans Job Matcher at CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

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