Matthew Ribble

• Managed workflow effectively by prioritizing tasks based on urgency, complexity, and available resources at hand.
• Held morning meetings with the mechanics to discuss daily plans/ tasks.
• Diagnosed mechanical failures to determine and delegate corrective actions.
• Provided technical expertise to other mechanics, enhancing their skills and boosting overall team capabilities.
• Performed routine and scheduled maintenance services.
• Conducted and sent out AOG and delay reports.
• Audited all daily paperwork and logbook sign offs and entered everything online.
• Signed off the AWR for all aircraft with work orders on them.

• Detail-oriented aircraft mechanic with 4 years of military experience as a cargo plane crew chief
• Journeyman aircraft mechanic with extremely broad knowledge on aircraft maintenance and flight-line procedures
• Trained apprentices in basic maintenance practices and servicing tasks
• Worked with quality assurance to evaluate the inspection process to make it more efficient
• Led a team of crew chiefs to complete 20 pre-flight inspections in two weeks with 100% pass rate
• Received two quality assurance honor roll awards for achieving a 100% pass rate for 15 consecutive inspections for each award
• Traveled to other bases in the United States and overseas for temporary-duty assignments

Daily tasks included:

• In-depth aircraft pre-flight/post-flight inspections based on flight hours
• Isochronal inspections (de-paneling, inspecting, lubing)
• Aircraft servicing (nitrogen, hydraulics, gaseous oxygen, engine oil, etc.)
• Forms documentation and ordering parts
• Towing procedures
• Fuel transfers, refuel/defuel, dry drain
• Aircraft jacking
• Aircraft launching / recovering
• Operating flight controls and troubleshooting hydraulic leaks or other problems