Mechanical Aircraft Technician

Mechanical Aircraft Technician
Job Description
The role
As an Aircraft Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The post holder will be an experienced and skilled Mechanical Technician undertaking a range of detailed maintenance activities on an aircraft or aircraft components. Day to day, you’ll ensure that maintenance is undertaken to schedule and resolve any issues, escalate as required, as well as:

• Undertake and complete depth maintenance and diagnostic activities on an aircraft or components which may include, as appropriate, scheduled maintenance, component removals, inspections, repairs, modifications, fault rectifications, replacements and/or functional/system test.
• Review operational performance of aircraft components and systems. Analyse and diagnose faults to components and assemblies, apply diagnostic skills and knowledge to effect repairs or modify equipment or suggest improvements to procedures.
• Maintain personal task competencies for working on aircraft or components.
• Undertake support tasks within the Aircraft or component maintenance facility which are required to maintain compliance with the MOE and Functionally Mandated procedures (e.g. oversight checks, control of tooling / test equipment etc.)

This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Valley.

• Essential experience of the Aircraft Technician
• Trade Principles training
• Computer literate
• Qualifications for the Aircraft Technician
• Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering, or Military equivalent apprenticeship / qualifications.
• Academic qualification for this role is a minimum of City & Guilds 2675 Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance or NVQ Level 3 Aeronautical related discipline. Consideration will be given to applicants who have completed Trade Principles and Aircraft platform training with continued employment subject to successful completion of the B3(T) Pathway within 2 years.

Overview:
Position - Aircraft Technician: Mechanical – Permanent
Location – North Wales
Salary - £30k
Keywords: Aircraft Mechanical Technician, Trade principles, Aeronautical Engineering, Military Mechanical Engineering, 2675 Aeronautical Engineering and maintenance, NVQ Level 3 Aeronautical.
Only apply for this role if you currently hold the specific Government Security Clearance or are eligible for Government BPSS.
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum BPSS level.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
This is a Permanent Role.