TES Line Service Technician

The Auburn University Regional Airport seeks candidates for a TES Line Service Technician to play a vital role in keeping operations running smoothly. In this hands-on position, you’ll help maintain airport facilities and grounds, service and refuel equipment, and provide essential flight line services to both local and transient aircraft.

• Fuels aircraft using both Aviation Gasoline and Jet-A fuel. Responsible for ensuring aircraft are fueled according to specific orders and timetables.
• Assists in towing aircraft as required, ensuring safe movement on the airport grounds.
• Learns the trade of aircraft refueling, to include how to operate fuel trucks and associated components, measure fuel quantities in storage, check fuel quality, assist in receiving fuel shipments, coordinating fuel orders with flight school dispatch, and interacting with pilots and passengers.
• Operates and becomes familiar with ground support equipment, such as the aircraft tug, ground power unit (GPU), lavatory service cart, de-icing cart, forklift, golf cart, UTV, and airport shuttles.
• Ensures standard operating procedures are followed, utilizing detailed checklists to maintain accuracy and consistency.
• Trains, coaches, and mentors new hires.
• Ensures safety standards, guidelines, and best practices set forth by the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) and Auburn University are followed to the highest levels.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Working knowledge of aircraft refueling procedures, including operating fuel trucks and associated
  components, measuring fuel quantities, conducting fuel quality checks, coordinating fuel shipments,
  communicating with flight school dispatch, and engaging with pilots and passengers.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in person, over the phone, over a radio system, and in written correspondence.

• Assistance in the place of a regular employee who is absent for a specified period of time 
• Additional assistance during periods of abnormal or peak workloads 
• Assistance with special projects 
• Seasonal work 
• Emergencies 

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