Electronics Technician

Jobtailor; West Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Connecticut is seeking a Repair Station Supervisor to oversee FAA repair operations, directing staff, assigning tasks, and ensuring quality and regulatory compliance.

The role emphasizes inspecting parts per IPC-A-610, verifying data, and coordinating with management while maintaining safety and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Must be able to interpret drawings, blueprints and service bulletins.
• Experience supervising repair station staff and workflows.
• Familiar with FAR parts and ATA Spec 100.
• Capable of on-the-job training and scheduling work.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and direct repair station staff and assign work.
• Ensure proper routing of parts and work authorization numbers.
• Perform and supervise inspections per IPC-A-610.
• Maintain compliance with FARs during daily tasks.
• Manage process documentation and updates to service bulletins.
• Coordinate training needs and provide estimates for out-of-scope work.
• Interface with management and other departments; ensure safety programs.
• Oversee non-destructive testing as required.
• Approve and verify incoming/outgoing documentation for serviceability.

Skills

Interpret drawings/blueprints

Regulatory compliance

Team supervision

Inspection techniques

Education

A&P or Repairman Certificate

4-year technical degree (bonus)

Job description

Responsibilities

• The FAA Repairman is a non-union working member of the repair station charged to oversee, direct, assign, and approve the work of repair station staff.
• Ensure all parts/components removed from a repair station unit is routed to the applicable assembly cell, documented by a valid service and operation number, and the work scope is properly identified.
• Inspect parts and components by obtaining and interpreting work cards, reviewing inspection requirements scope and detail, and completing visual inspections per IPC-A-610.
• Ensure proper, approved technical data is used and available to the repair station staff.
• Responsible for her/his own work and the work of her/his assigned staff.
• Responsible for the proper work execution of part tags attached to repairable, serviceable, or condemned parts.
• Responsible to assure that all serviceable tags are installed on components and properly annotated.
• Ensure that the staff performs top quality work by continual monitoring and oversight.
• Responsible for managing existing process documentation, incorporating service bulletins, developing new processes for component level repair, and reacting to CMM amendments.
• Ensure staff is qualified and that they use proper procedures, manual references, and proper tools in accomplishing assigned tasks.
• Perform on the job training, as required, and determine any additional training needs.
• Schedule and assign work to the staff.
• Provide estimates for all out-of-scope work (i.e., non-routines, etc.) in a timely manner.
• Seek customer approval(s) on original, additional, and/or revised estimates to accomplish maintenance on customers' units.
• Interface effectively with members of management, other departments, and co-workers.
• Ensure all safety programs and procedures are performed during the assigned shift.
• Ensure proper material orders, amounts and usage as well as cancel orders when an alternate repair has been found.
• Oversee, and as required perform, various types of non-destructive testing.
• Perform repair station incoming inspection requirements for new and continued-serviced parts for serviceability, including but not limited to, verifying certification from manufacture or overhaul facility, and inspecting for customer and/or shipping damage.
• Perform repair station outgoing requirements for return to service of parts including maintenance report publication, inventory adjustments, component record card edits, confirmation of sales/purchase order correctness and all final documentation issuance.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable FAR's during day-to-day assignments.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a technician in an aerospace manufacturing or commercial aircraft environment.
• A&P or Repairman Certificate experience for specialized inspection authority.
• Capable of interpreting drawings, blueprints, service bulletins, ads, and any other related documents as required.
• A 4-year technical degree is a plus.
• Must be thoroughly familiar with the applicable regulations FAR Parts including: Certification procedures for products and parts; Airworthiness Standards: Aircraft Engines; Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Rebuilding and Alteration; Identification and Registration Marking; Certification: Airmen Other than Flight Crewmembers-Subpart E-Repairman; General Operating and Flight Rules; Operating Requirements: Commuter and On-Demand Operations and Rules Governing Persons on Board such Aircraft; and Repair Stations.
• Must be familiar with the Air Transport Association (ATA) Spec 100 for technical manuals used in the maintenance of their respective products.
• Must be able to understand and interpret Component Maintenance Manuals.
• Must be able to use the appropriate inspection methods, techniques, practices, aids, equipment and tools used to determine the airworthiness of the article on which maintenance is being performed.
• US Citizen or Active Green Card Holder.