Chase Poling
Oscoda,MI
Summary
Industrious Aircraft Maintenance professional with 12 years of aviation experience. Well-versed in planning, coordinating, and executing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance actions on diverse aircraft models.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Airframes and Powerplants Mechanic
Kalitta Air
03.2023 - Current
- Performed aircraft maintenance for scheduled preventive actions and unscheduled requirements.
- Maintained all aircraft in accordance with organizational maintenance requirements.
- Maintained repair logs to document all corrective and preventive aircraft maintenance.
- Maintained an orderly and safe work environment by always enforcing tool control, FOD awareness, prevention, and safety.
- Recorded maintenance actions in aircraft logbooks.
- Maintained an orderly and safe work environment by enforcing tool control, FOD awareness, prevention, and safety.
- Operated power tools, gauges, and testing equipment to adjust, repair, and replace faulty components in aircraft.
- Proficient in aircraft and equipment transport and movement.
- Experience in launching and recovering aircraft.
- Removed and installed aircraft subsystem assemblies such as engines, rotors, gearboxes, transmissions, and mechanical flight controls.
- Operated support equipment and flight line vehicles.
Aviation Structural Mechanic
United States Navy
08.2013 - 02.2023
- Completed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on 12 MH53E aircraft.
- Maintained main and auxiliary hydraulic power systems, actuating subsystems and landing gear on MH53E aircraft.
- Removed corrosion and deposits on special surfaces and restored using manufacturers' protocols.
- Installed, rigged and removed flight control surfaces as well as fabricated and assembled metal components to make repairs to aircraft's skin.
- Fabricated sheet metal components for aircraft skin, working with highly sensitive materials requiring special manufacturing treatments, coatings and installation processes.
- Performed daily postflight, preflight and other periodic inspections.
- Conducted airframe, airfoils and flight controls maintenance and logged actions in aircraft log.
- Extracted components from aircraft for bench analysis and testing.
- Installed, rigged and removed flight control surfaces and fabricated and assembled metal components to make repairs to aircraft's skin.
- Performed daily flight line preflight and post-fight aircraft inspections of hydraulic systems and flight control surfaces.
Parts Delivery Driver
VoMac Truck Sales
03.2011 - 06.2013
- Safely and punctually delivered auto parts to local automobile stores from large distributor.
- Completed on-time deliveries by choosing best and most efficient routes.
- Maintained organized, clean and professional vehicle to protect company reputation with customers.
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Managed 25+ repeat customers ranging from smaller shops to major facilities like Cummins and Waste Management repair facilities.
Crew Leader
Wendy's
05.2007 - 02.2011
- Trained employees in time management and proper ways to complete job duties.
- Maintained clean workplace and supervised end-of-day cleanup activities to remove all debris and unnecessary supplies from customer premises.
- Verified compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations to maintain safe work environments.
- Created and deployed successful strategies to boost restaurant performance, streamline food prep processes and increase efficiency in different areas.
- Discussed daily work requirements with crew and assigned skills-based tasks to enable completion of work.
- During time as crew leader product waste was reduced from 18% down to less than 5%
Education
Bachelor of Science - Aerospace With Management
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, FL10.2025
High School Diploma -
Northrop High School
Fort Wayne, IN01.2009
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Leadership
- Tool control management
- Hydraulic equipment installation
- Hydraulic Fluid Analysis
- Painting
- HAZMAT handling
- Aircraft troubleshooting
- Mechanical systems knowledge
- Brake systems
- Team management
- Inspection skills
- Problem resolution
- A&P Licensed
Job applied for
A&P mechanic
Certification
- Licensed Airframe and PowerPlants
Timeline
Airframes and Powerplants Mechanic
Kalitta Air
03.2023 - Current
Aviation Structural Mechanic
United States Navy
08.2013 - 02.2023
Parts Delivery Driver
VoMac Truck Sales
03.2011 - 06.2013
Crew Leader
Wendy's
05.2007 - 02.2011
Bachelor of Science - Aerospace With Management
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
High School Diploma -
Northrop High School
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