Noheli Tellez

Serve as a Work Leader/Dedicated Crew Chief of assigned aircraft, responsible for effectively coordinating and/or overseeing maintenance, troubleshooting, positioning, appearance and servicing of the aircraft. Responsible for the total airworthiness of the assigned aircraft.

Perform and/or oversee aircraft inspections including preflight, post flight, phase, acceptance, and other scheduled and unscheduled inspections.

Provide technical supervision on production matters to all employees assigned to the crew/team, which may include active duty, ARTs, civilians, and others.

Enforce and comply with safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean work area.

Lead verification and certification of work processes and procedures and adequacy of work accomplished by qualified mechanics and trainees.

Check functional and support systems, operate engine(s), determine what systems are malfunctioning; and search repair directives, technical orders, blueprints, schematics and diagrams, specifications, and manuals to determine repairs needed.

Analyze guidelines and/or maintenance modification orders to determine material, equipment and personnel needs and to perform technical reviews of guides to locate discrepancies or propose improvements to methods or specifications. Plan and organize work assignments to include determining resources required to accomplish mission.

Performed inspections, functional checks, and preventive maintenance on assigned aircraft and its systems to include pre-inspection, daily inspection, pre- and post-flight inspections and such special inspections as required, including fuel contamination checks, oil sampling etc..

Assembled, installed, and replaced aircraft mechanical component parts, accessories and systems, ie. airframe, landing gear, power plant, gear boxes, valves, pumps, hydraulics, fuel and oil systems and flight controls.

Repaired and maintained complex aircraft systems, major and minor mechanical systems on aircraft and traced and located defects in aircraft systems, troubleshot and function tested complex aircraft systems, components, assemblies, and equipment.