Specialty Summary. Installs, removes, relocates, modifies, deploys, and maintains fixed and mobile meteorological and navigation systems. Accomplishes flight inspection duties. Analyzes equipment performance trends. Supervises meteorological and navigation systems maintenance activities. Related DoD Occupational Subgroup: 110200.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Supervises meteorological and navigation systems maintenance activities. Oversees work in progress and reviews completed repairs for sound maintenance practices. Establishes requirements for maintenance and support equipment, tools, and spare parts. Requisitions, accounts for, and turns in supplies and material. Recommends equipment repair, replacement, or depot overhaul. Certifies facilities after repair actions or flight inspections. Interprets inspection findings and determines adequacy of corrective action. Reviews and ensures compliance with maintenance management publications and procedures. Develops and enforces safety standards for meteorological and navigation activities.

Resolves technical problems and improves maintenance methods and techniques. Interprets technical specifications and provides guidance. Solves technical problems requiring interpretation of schematic, logic, and wiring diagrams.

Installs, removes, and relocates meteorological and navigation systems. Studies system characteristics, local terrain, and planned base facilities and requirements. Determines equipment position based on plans, diagrams, and specifications. Checks and inventories equipment and project materials for serviceability. Assembles, connects, and wires components, assemblies, and antenna systems. Performs operational tests, and adjusts and aligns equipment. Completes commissioning flight inspections. Places systems in operation.

Prepares equipment for deployment. Deploys, sets up, and activates transportable meteorological and navigation systems. Completes flight inspections. Places systems in operation.

Maintains meteorological and navigation systems. Uses specialized test equipment and software controlled diagnostics to isolate malfunctions. Repairs mechanical and electrical assemblies and subassemblies. Tunes, aligns, and adjusts equipment. Completes flight inspections. Cleans and lubricates equipment. Performs corrosion control. Modifies equipment. Completes performance tests and evaluates results to ensure proper system operation. Initiates action to correct unsatisfactory equipment performance trends.

Maintains inspection and maintenance records. Posts entries on maintenance and inspection records. Records and reviews meter readings, test results, and historical data in equipment performance logs. Completes and reviews maintenance data collection and equipment status reporting forms. Evaluates and recommends methods to improve technical data, system performance, and maintenance procedures.

Specialty Qualifications:

Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: discrete and integrated electronic components and schematic diagram and logic symbols; electronic principles; microprocessors; data processing; mathematics principles required to solve electronic formulas; Boolean algebra theory and number systems; analog and digital electronic circuits; advanced troubleshooting techniques; principles of meteorological and navigation systems maintenance; use of technical data and blueprints; system block, data flow, schematic, logic, and interconnecting wiring diagrams; principles and use of test equipment and diagnostic systems; and advanced soldering techniques.

Education. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school with courses in physics and mathematics and a basic knowledge of computers is desirable. .