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Location Long Beach, CA
Security Clearance Required? Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
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Position Description
Performs as primary flight crewmember and responsible for proper configuration of cargo compartment. Plans and places cargo and equipment onboard transport aircraft for strategic, tactical, airdrop, and test & evaluation flights. Calculates aircraft weight and balance and assures aircraft is within flight limits. Knowledgeable, experienced, and qualified in personnel and cargo aerial delivery methods. Understands airdrop platform and bundle rigging techniques and the aircraft aerial delivery system. Familiar and understand aircraft systems, strategic and tactical airlift, personnel and cargo aerial delivery, and test and evaluation methods and techniques. Assist with technical and operational reports for company and customer engineering. Performs prescribed tasks for human factors evaluation as related to logistic and airdrop systems and flight operations. Assist with the development of test plans and test cards. As primary crewmember, conducts Acceptance and Functional Check Flights (ACF/FCF) and company production first flight. Assists and provides instruction to US and foreign nation Loadmaster customers for aircraft system use and operations. Reviews Technical Order and related flight publications for accuracy and completeness. Assist engineering with understanding of customer needs, aircraft design, system requirements, and implementation of new or improved aircraft system and procedures. Job requires previous military experience and C-17A Loadmaster qualification.
Competencies
General
[ + ] Adaptability
Understands changes in own and others' work and situations; may be asked to explain the logic or basis for change to less experienced employees; actively seeks information about changes affecting own and fellow employees' jobs. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow interorganizational employees and occasionally to external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors.
[ + ] Collaboration
Works effectively and cooperatively with fellow employees, peers from other teams and/or parts of the organization and occasionally external customers; establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving others and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and/or organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide help and/or leadership to other teams and/or employees and occasionally external customers when they need assistance.
[ + ] Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
[ + ] Decision Making
Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
[ + ] Safety Awareness
Detects hazardous working conditions and safety problems; checks equipment and/or work area regularly. Reports or corrects unsafe working conditions; makes a wide range of recommendations and/or improves safety and security procedures; enforces safety regulations and procedures as appropriate to role. Monitors safety or security issues after taking corrective action and ensures continued compliance.
Technical
[ + ] Aircraft Systems
Complete knowledge and understanding of multiple aircraft systems including: electrical system installation and basic understanding of avionics systems operations and trouble shooting, or mechanical systems installation to include the rigging/installation of flight critical systems and basic understanding of mechanical system operations, or structural installations and basic understanding of structural assembly repairs.
[ + ] Aircraft/Delivery Systems
Complete knowledge of aircraft systems (e.g., fuel, hydraulics, pneumatic) and aerial/cargo delivery systems (e.g., Personnel, Low Velocity Airdrop, Container Delivery System), including operations and limitations.
[ + ] Customer Knowledge
Complete knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution.
[ + ] Loadmaster Mission Systems
Complete knowledge of load planning, operational tasks (e.g., normal and emergency checklists, aerial delivery, combat off-load), flight test operations, and functional/acceptance check flights.
[ + ] Operational Tasks
Complete ability to safely operate aircraft systems per the appropriate flight manual and procedures.
Basic Qualifications For Consideration
Are you or have you ever been a C-17A Loadmaster Flight Examiner?
Are you or have you ever been a C-17A Airdrop Qualified Instructor or Flight Examiner Loadmaster?
Are you or have you ever been a qualified C-17A Development Test & Evaluation Loadmaster with Airdrop qualification?
As a C-17A qualified Loadmaster have you accomplished Functional Check Flights (FCF) and/or Acceptance Check Flights (ACF) on the C-17A aircraft?
Typical Education/Experience
Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
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Location Long Beach, CA
Security Clearance Required? Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
about security clearance definitions
Position Description
Performs as primary flight crewmember and responsible for proper configuration of cargo compartment. Plans and places cargo and equipment onboard transport aircraft for strategic, tactical, airdrop, and test & evaluation flights. Calculates aircraft weight and balance and assures aircraft is within flight limits. Knowledgeable, experienced, and qualified in personnel and cargo aerial delivery methods. Understands airdrop platform and bundle rigging techniques and the aircraft aerial delivery system. Familiar and understand aircraft systems, strategic and tactical airlift, personnel and cargo aerial delivery, and test and evaluation methods and techniques. Assist with technical and operational reports for company and customer engineering. Performs prescribed tasks for human factors evaluation as related to logistic and airdrop systems and flight operations. Assist with the development of test plans and test cards. As primary crewmember, conducts Acceptance and Functional Check Flights (ACF/FCF) and company production first flight. Assists and provides instruction to US and foreign nation Loadmaster customers for aircraft system use and operations. Reviews Technical Order and related flight publications for accuracy and completeness. Assist engineering with understanding of customer needs, aircraft design, system requirements, and implementation of new or improved aircraft system and procedures. Job requires previous military experience and C-17A Loadmaster qualification.
Competencies
General
[ + ] Adaptability
Understands changes in own and others' work and situations; may be asked to explain the logic or basis for change to less experienced employees; actively seeks information about changes affecting own and fellow employees' jobs. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow interorganizational employees and occasionally to external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors.
[ + ] Collaboration
Works effectively and cooperatively with fellow employees, peers from other teams and/or parts of the organization and occasionally external customers; establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving others and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and/or organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide help and/or leadership to other teams and/or employees and occasionally external customers when they need assistance.
[ + ] Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.
[ + ] Decision Making
Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
[ + ] Safety Awareness
Detects hazardous working conditions and safety problems; checks equipment and/or work area regularly. Reports or corrects unsafe working conditions; makes a wide range of recommendations and/or improves safety and security procedures; enforces safety regulations and procedures as appropriate to role. Monitors safety or security issues after taking corrective action and ensures continued compliance.
Technical
[ + ] Aircraft Systems
Complete knowledge and understanding of multiple aircraft systems including: electrical system installation and basic understanding of avionics systems operations and trouble shooting, or mechanical systems installation to include the rigging/installation of flight critical systems and basic understanding of mechanical system operations, or structural installations and basic understanding of structural assembly repairs.
[ + ] Aircraft/Delivery Systems
Complete knowledge of aircraft systems (e.g., fuel, hydraulics, pneumatic) and aerial/cargo delivery systems (e.g., Personnel, Low Velocity Airdrop, Container Delivery System), including operations and limitations.
[ + ] Customer Knowledge
Complete knowledge of techniques to help identify a customer's organization, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, problems, and other constraints in order to provide effective product support and technical issue resolution.
[ + ] Loadmaster Mission Systems
Complete knowledge of load planning, operational tasks (e.g., normal and emergency checklists, aerial delivery, combat off-load), flight test operations, and functional/acceptance check flights.
[ + ] Operational Tasks
Complete ability to safely operate aircraft systems per the appropriate flight manual and procedures.
Basic Qualifications For Consideration
Are you or have you ever been a C-17A Loadmaster Flight Examiner?
Are you or have you ever been a C-17A Airdrop Qualified Instructor or Flight Examiner Loadmaster?
Are you or have you ever been a qualified C-17A Development Test & Evaluation Loadmaster with Airdrop qualification?
As a C-17A qualified Loadmaster have you accomplished Functional Check Flights (FCF) and/or Acceptance Check Flights (ACF) on the C-17A aircraft?
Typical Education/Experience
Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
- Business Unit Engineering Ops & Tech
- Division Boeing Test & Evaluation
- Program Chief Test Pilot
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
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