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MEA40607: Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Avionics)
This section contains a the Employability Skills Summary for this qualification.
Communication
- Understanding work and organisational instructions
- Understanding input from specialist personnel and technical representatives
- Providing guidance to others and describing clearly faults, problems and spares requirements
- Negotiating with other team members or supervisors regarding timing and progress of work activities and access to sections of the aircraft, or to equipment
- Understanding and interpreting regulations, procedures, instructions and maintenance publications
- Completing maintenance documentation and component tags
- Interpreting wiring diagrams and system schematics, and reading drawings relating to maintenance activities
- Using computers to obtain maintenance data and complete documentation
- Networking with other team members regarding work planning and execution
Teamwork
- Performing tasks as an individual while being responsive to supervisors and allowing for relevant human factors
- Working effectively with others who may be of different ages, gender, race, religion and political persuasion
- Assisting other team members with tasks and providing advice on work processes and troubleshooting
Problem Solving
- Identifying problems in a timely manner and developing practical solutions to maintenance problems not fully covered by maintenance data
- Proposing solutions to problems as modifications or a amendments to specified maintenance processes
- Constantly reviewing problem solving skills and ability to effectively apply competencies to solve problems within the limits permitted by regulatory and organisational guidelines
- Responding to emergencies or accidents in accordance with regulatory and organisational requirements
- Using mathematical techniques to relate test results to system or component performance and to convert values between systems of measurement
Initiative and Enterprise
- Adapting to new situations that arise as a consequence of regulatory changes, revised maintenance data, practices and procedures
- Varying work practices and behaviour as a result of performance feedback from peers and supervisors
- Evaluating ideas to ensure that technical and regulatory aspects have been fully covered before proposing action that may result in modifications or changes to work processes
- Applying human factors to avoid maintenance errors and maintain quality standards
- Adapting competencies to the performance of a wide range of maintenance tasks
- Contributing to a process of continuous improvement and a willingness to support and participate in the effective introduction of new work practices
Planning and Organising
- Clarifying task objectives and required outcomes through discussion with supervisors and other team members
- Monitoring the time taken to complete tasks against team requirements or targets provided by supervisors
- Collecting, analysing and organising information relating to assigned maintenance tasks and confirming the purpose and required work outcomes
- Identifying the extent of impact on assigned work of changes in procedures, work instructions or regulatory requirements
Self-management
- Accepting responsibility for managing individual workload to meet target completion times or fit in with team milestones
- Assessing personal knowledge and skills with the aid of the self-assessment work sheets in the Log of Industrial Experience and Achievement and preparing for competency assessments
- Actively seeking opportunities to develop competencies and to apply them across a range of tasks and monitoring performance using indicators such as the extent of oversight exercised by supervisors
- Identifying career paths and training opportunities that will assist in attaining career goals
Learning
- Taking advantage of learning opportunities that arise through training courses provided by the organisation or external providers and through mentoring and on-job training
- Adapting competencies to accommodate new ideas and techniques
- Using feedback from supervisors and peers to identify ways in which competence can be improved
- Mentoring new or more junior personnel
- Interpreting units of competency and applying them to attainment of identified career goals
Technology
- Operating aircraft and avionic systems, test equipment and ground support equipment and troubleshooting faults
- Using on-board maintenance systems and using maintenance-related software
- Operating automatic test stations
- Testing the performance and calibration of components and test stations
- Storing and caring for components, parts, tools, test equipment and support equipment
- Amending various forms of maintenance data
- Using computers and microfiche to obtain maintenance data and using computers to complete documentation