Helicopter/Fixed Wing Avionics Mechanic California

Helicopter/Fixed Wing Avionics Mechanic California

Avionics Technician

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Los Angeles, California, USA

Position Type: Permanent

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is looking for highly qualified avionics technicians for a fleet of modern law enforcement aircraft. You'll be working with the latest in modern GPS, infrared cameras and searchlights as well as a host of other navigation systems, instruments, and law enforcement equipment. We offer either a 5-8 or 4-10 schedule with most holidays and weekends off. Located right at the Long Beach Airport near the terminal. This Position is allocable to this journey-level class typically report to an Electronics Communications Technician Supervisor. This position requires incumbents to exercise knowledge of the protocols, procedures, techniques, and equipment used to maintain, repair, test, configure, and install fixed, mobile, and portable radio communications and related equipment.

Individual positions may have specialized assignments within functional areas such as fixed and mobile two-way public safety radio; microwave transmission; command and control; and helicopter and light aircraft communications. Incumbents frequently lift tools, supplies, and equipment weighing 10 25 pounds, and occasionally over 25 pounds. Equipment installation, repair and replacement duties require incumbents to regularly use 6-foot and taller ladders, and perform tasks that require bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, and reaching. Physical dexterity, color perception, and visual acuity are required for working with color-coded wires and cables.

Essential Job Functions: Maintains, repairs, tests, configures, and installs fixed, mobile, and portable radio communications equipment such as mobile and hand-carried radio transmitters and receivers; base and remote station transmitters, receivers, and repeaters; and related equipment.

Applicants should be able to:

• Maintain, repairs, tests, configures, and installs telecommunications network circuits, land line interfaces, and communications equipment such as dispatch consoles, modems, channel banks, multiplexers, and repeaters. As well as maintain, repair, test, configure, and install mobile data computer system equipment and related devices.
• Maintain, repair, and test mobile electronic equipment such as sirens, public address systems, and video cameras and displays; global positioning and radio-tracking vehicle location devices; light bars and visual emergency indicators; and associated controls.
• Maintain, repair, test, configure and install specialized aviation and airborne electronic equipment, assisting others where Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification is required, and perform in-flight equipment testing and troubleshooting, as required.
• Adapt commercial equipment for specialized uses.
• Participate in the set-up and operation of temporary emergency communications systems.
• Test, troubleshoot, and repair equipment interconnection wiring and cabling.
• Install and remove cables and cabling infrastructure such as wire management systems, patch panels and jacks according to industry and County standards.
• Maintain, repair, test, configure, and install miscellaneous electronic equipment such as telemetering devices, encoders, converters, closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, and associated equipment, as required.
• Demonstrate and explain the correct operation of equipment.
• Requisitions and orders parts and supplies as needed.
• Keeps time, material, and service records.
• Drives automotive equipment to and from work sites.

Job Requirements:

• Four years of experience in the installation, maintenance, and repair of FM radio communications transmitting and receiving equipment, one year of which must have been at the journey level.
• A valid General Radiotelephone Operator License issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• A valid California Class C Driver License is required to perform job-related essential functions.
• Candidates offered these positions would be required to show proof of a driver's license prior to appointment.
• Out-of-state applicants must have a valid license from the state in which they reside at the time of filing.
• Out-of-state applicants will be required to obtain a California Class C Driver License prior to appointment.

Supported Manufacturers: Airbus, Hughes/Schweizer

Supported Models: AS-350, S-300