Profession aircraft de-icer installer

Aircraft de-icer installers assemble, install, test, maintain and repair mechanical de-icing and anti-icing systems that prevent ice accumulation or formation on aircrafts and spacecrafts.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Quality standards

  The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

• Common aviation safety regulations

  The body of legislation and regulations that apply to the field of civil aviation at regional, national, European and International levels. Understand that regulations aimed at protecting citizens at all times in civil aviation; ensure that operators, citizens, and organisations comply with these rules.

• Electromechanics

  The engineering processes that combine electrical and mechanical engineering in the application of electromechanics in devices that need electricity to create mechanical movement or devices that create electricity by mechanical movement.

• Mechanics

  Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

• Aircraft mechanics

  Technicalities over mechanics in aircrafts and related topics in order to perform a wide range of repais in aircrafts.

Skills

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Apply health and safety standards

  Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

• Wear appropriate protective gear

  Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.

• Use power tools

  Operate power driven pumps. Use hand tools or power tools. Use vehicle repair tools or safety equipment.

• Fasten components

  Fasten components together according to blueprints and technical plans in order to create subassemblies or finished products.

• Align components

  Align and lay out components in order to put them together correctly according to blueprints and technical plans.

• Read engineering drawings

  Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.

• Read standard blueprints

  Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

• Use technical documentation

  Understand and use technical documentation in the overall technical process.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB