PRODUCTION MACHINERY MECHANIC
Air Force Materiel Command
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PRODUCTION CONTROLLER (AIRCRAFT)
Air National Guard Units
Department of the Air Force
Location
Newburgh, New York
Salary
$72,737 - $94,563
per year
Type
Full-Time
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SES Pay Grade
Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves planning, scheduling, and overseeing aircraft maintenance work in a National Guard unit to ensure everything runs smoothly across various repair shops.
It requires coordinating workflows, tracking progress, and adjusting plans as needed to keep aircraft ready for missions.
A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience in production or maintenance environments, strong organizational skills, and the ability to communicate clearly while handling multiple tasks.
Key Requirements
- Enlisted military grade in the National Guard
- General experience in quantitative reasoning, clear oral and written communication, and understanding repair operations terminology
- One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade in scheduling workflows across multiple areas and coordinating products or materials
- Experience performing or supervising journeyman-level work in a production facility
- Proficiency in preparing job or work orders, scheduling project phases, monitoring progress, and making adjustments to materials, processes, or sequencing
- Familiarity with automation support programs for data input, equipment status tracking, job order monitoring, work priority management, and repair parts requisitioning
Full Job Description
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a PRODUCTION CONTROLLER (AIRCRAFT), Position Description Number D0749000 and is part of the 105TH AW, National Guard.
This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.
Military Grades: ENLISTED ONLY GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience, education or training which indicates the candidate can reason in quantitative terms, communicate orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner, understanding the terminology and data pertaining to repair operations and process characteristics of the production activity.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year equivalent experience to the next lower grade, with experience, education or training scheduling workflow in more than one area and responsible for coordinating products or materials from support activities.
Experience in performing or supervising journeyman level work in a production facility.
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.
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:
- This position is located in the Job Control Section of the Maintenance Control Branch. The purpose of this position is to provide planning, scheduling and control of aircraft maintenance through a variety of support maintenance shops.
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