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Air National Guard Units
Department of the Air Force
Location
Fargo, North Dakota
Salary
$61,722 - $80,243
per year
Type
Full-Time
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Base salary range: $41,966 - $54,557
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-6. Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement or 1 year graduate study.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
This job involves planning, scheduling, and overseeing aircraft maintenance work in the Air National Guard to keep planes and equipment ready for missions.
The role requires coordinating with teams to track progress, manage parts, and adjust plans as needed.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on experience in maintenance operations who can handle details and communicate clearly, especially those already in the military or with aviation backgrounds.
THIS IS A NORTH DAKOTA NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This ND National Guard position is for a PRODUCTION CONTROLLER (AIRCRAFT), Position Description Number D0749000 and is part of the ND 119 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, National Guard.
PCS STATEMENT: PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION COSTS WILL NOT BE PAID FOR THIS POSITION.
NDNG Areas of Considerations (T32 Excepted Service) Area I: All onboard NDNG Federal Employees (Tenure 1 & 2) Area II: All onboard NDNG Federal Employee (Tenure 3) Area III: All NDNG military members Area IV: All Military Members Area V: All U.S.
Citizens MAX MILITARY GRADES: MSgt COMPATIBILE MILITARY ASSIGNMENTS: 2AXXX, 2WXXX, 2R1XX AFSC is not a disqualifying factor of eligibility, however, selected applicant must obtain the compatible AFSC.
QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE Length of time is not of itself qualifying.
Candidates' experience should be evaluated on the basis of duties performed rather than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compatibility criteria/assignments must be followed.
The applicant's record of experience and/or training must show possession of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position.
Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, i.e.
the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered.
In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed below.
Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained.
This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.
GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Applicant must have the experience, education or training to reason in quantitative terms, communicate orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner, understand the terminology and data pertaining to repair operations and process characteristics of the production activity.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicant must have one year of specialized experience at the GS-7 grade level or civilian equivalent which includes; 1) experience, education or training scheduling workflow in more than one area and responsible for coordinating products or materials from support activities; 2) experience in performing or supervising journeyman level work in a production facility; 3) experience preparing job or work orders; scheduling various phases of projects into the production facility; following up to see if work is progressing as planned and arranging for adjustments in materials, machine processes, and work sequencing allowing for changes; and 4) experience with current automation support programs to input data, provide status of equipment, and monitor job order status, monitor work priorities, requisition repair parts, track repair parts status, etc..
Major Duties:
The purpose of this position is to provide planning, scheduling and control of aircraft maintenance through a variety of support maintenance shops.
Implements preliminary (advance) maintenance plans for assigned weapon systems and schedules immediate maintenance for transient aircraft. Monitors progress of job completion by dispatched personnel.
Maintains visual aids depicting status of maintenance actions in progress, specialist availability and status of aerospace vehicles, aerospace ground equipment (AGE), training equipment, transportation and tow vehicles, munitions loads, arming of guns and munitions, and location of aircraft and dispatched AGE.
Coordinates with Materiel Control on mission capable (MICAP) and non-mission capable status (NMCS) of parts, adjustments to in-shop work priorities, and verification of urgency of need designators.
Coordinates with Quality Assurance on functional check flight (FCF) requirements, Air Operations on flying schedule, other maintenance shops for coordination of repair work and with other functional areas as required.
Requests necessary support services such as fire fighting activity standby, fuel and defuel and civil engineer support.
Makes required inputs to the automated data system and retrieves data and/or computer generated products as required.
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