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Avionics Technician

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What They Do

Avionics Technicians Career Video

About This Career

Installs, inspects, tests, adjusts, or repairs avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.

This career is part of the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics cluster Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Tests and troubleshoots instruments, components, and assemblies, using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, or voltmeters.
  • Keeps records of maintenance and repair work.
  • Adjusts, repairs, or replaces malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
  • Installs electrical and electronic components, assemblies, and systems in aircraft, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering irons.
  • Sets up and operates ground support and test equipment to perform functional flight tests of electrical and electronic systems.
  • Assembles components such as switches, electrical controls, and junction boxes, using hand tools or soldering irons.
  • Lays out installation of aircraft assemblies and systems, following documentation such as blueprints, manuals, and wiring diagrams.
  • Connects components to assemblies such as radio systems, instruments, magnetos, inverters, and in-flight refueling systems, using hand tools and soldering irons.
  • Interprets flight test data to diagnose malfunctions and systemic performance problems.
  • Coordinates work with that of engineers, technicians, and other aircraft maintenance personnel.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 20 lbs., sometimes up to 50 lbs. You might do a lot of lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling.
  • Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
  • Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
  • Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
  • Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

  • Identifying color and seeing differences in color, including shades and brightness
  • Seeing clearly up close
  • Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
  • Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

  • Overtime work
  • Rotating shift work

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • Aircraft Electrical Systems Specialist — Diagnoses, maintains, repairs and installs aircraft electrical components, including generation systems and batteries.
  • Aircraft Technician
  • Aviation Electrical Technician
  • Aviation Electronics Technician
  • Avionics Electronics Technician
  • Avionics Installer
  • Avionics Systems Integration Specialist
  • Electronic Technician — Lays out, builds, tests, troubleshoots, repairs and modifies developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems, such as computer equipment, missile control instrumentation, electron tubes, test equipment, and machine tools.

Contact

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  • 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900
  • North Dakota Career Resource Network
    ndcrn@nd.gov | (701) 328-9733

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