Aviation Inspectors

Inspect aircraft, maintenance procedures, air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment to ensure conformance with Federal safety regulations.

On the job, you would:

• Inspect work of aircraft mechanics performing maintenance, modification, or repair and overhaul of aircraft and aircraft mechanical systems to ensure adherence to standards and procedures.
• Examine maintenance records and flight logs to determine if service and maintenance checks and overhauls were performed at prescribed intervals.
• Inspect new, repaired, or modified aircraft to identify damage or defects and to assess airworthiness and conformance to standards, using checklists, hand tools, and test instruments.

Education

• associate's degree
• high school diploma/GED

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Engineering and Technology

• mechanical
• product and service development

Safety and Government

• public safety and security
• law and government

Business

• customer service

Basic Skills

• thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

• Integrity
• Dependability
• Attention to Detail
• Self Control
• Stress Tolerance
• Achievement/Effort

Verbal

• listen and understand what people say
• communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• notice when problems happen

Attention

• pay attention to something without being distracted
• do two or more things at the same time

Hearing and Speech

• speak clearly