Qualification details

Employability Skill 

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include: 

Communication

• Understanding work and organisational instructions
• Seeking guidance and describing clearly faults, problems and spares requirements
• Negotiating with team members regarding timing and progress of work activities
• Understanding and interpreting procedures, instructions and maintenance publications
• Completing maintenance documentation and component tags
• Reading drawings relating to maintenance activities
• Using computers to obtain maintenance data and complete documentation
• Networking with other team members regarding work planning and execution

Teamwork

• Performing tasks as an individual while being responsive to supervisors and allowing for relevant human factors
• Working effectively with supervisors, qualified persons providing guidance and other team members who may be of different ages, gender, race, religion and political persuasion
• Working effectively as a member of a team and gaining the trust and support of other team members

Problem solving

• With qualified person guidance identifying problems and developing practical solutions to maintenance problems not fully covered by maintenance data
• Proposing solutions to problems as modifications or a amendments to specified maintenance processes
• Responding to emergencies or accidents in accordance with regulatory and organisational requirements
• Using mathematical techniques to obtain and apply dimensional and tolerance data and to convert values between systems of measurement

Initiative and enterprise

• Adapting to new situations that arise as a consequence of revised maintenance data, practices and procedures
• Varying work practices and behaviour as a result of performance feedback during competency development and job performance
• Evaluating under guidance ideas that may result in modifications or changes to work processes
• Applying human factors to avoid maintenance errors and maintain quality standards and adapting competencies to the performance of a range of maintenance tasks
• Contributing to a process of continuous improvement and a willingness to support and participate in the effective introduction of new work practices

Planning and organising

• Clarifying task objectives and required outcomes with supervisors and with qualified persons providing guidance

Self-management

• Accepting responsibility for managing individual workload to meet target completion times or fit in with team milestones
• Actively seeking opportunities to develop competencies and to apply them across a range of tasks and monitoring performance using indicators such as the extent of guidance required and the level of supervision exercised by supervisors
• Identifying career paths beyond Certificate II, especially with regard to on-aircraft as an aircraft maintenance engineer or component repair and overhaul in workshops

Learning

• Taking advantage of learning opportunities that arise through expansion of the range of tasks and through organisational continuation training
• Adapting competencies to accommodate new ideas and techniques
• Using feedback from qualified persons and supervisors to identify ways in which competence can be improved

Technology

• Maintaining components and component parts that are within the scope of competencies and selecting applicable tools and equipment
• Storing and caring for components, component parts, tools and support equipment
• Using test equipment that is within the scope of competencies held
• Amending print-based maintenance publications
• Using computers and microfiche to obtain maintenance data and using computers to complete documentation

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA101B

Interpret occupational health and safety practices in aviation maintenance

Nil

MEA103B

Plan and organise aviation maintenance work activities

MEA101B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B

MEA105C

Apply quality standards applicable to aviation maintenance processes

MEA101B, MEA107B

MEA107B

Interpret and use aviation maintenance industry manuals and specifications

Nil

MEA108B

Complete aviation maintenance industry documentation

MEA105C

MEA109B

Perform basic hand skills, standard trade practices and fundamentals in aviation maintenance

MEA105C, MEA108B

MEA117A

Apply self in the aviation maintenance environment

Nil

MSAENV272B

Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

Nil

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA238B

Perform routine removal and installation of miscellaneous aircraft electrical hardware/components

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA239B

Fabricate aircraft electrical looms and harnesses

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA240B

Use electrical test equipment to perform basic electrical tests

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA329B

Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft basic hydraulic and pneumatic components or parts

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA330B

Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft non-primary structural removable components or parts and internal fittings

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA331B

Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft gas turbine engine components or parts

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA332B

Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft mechanical components or parts

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA333B

Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft piston engine components or parts

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisite s 

MEA406B

Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural sheetmetal components

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B

MEA407B

Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural non-metallic components

MEA101B, MEA103B, MEA105C, MEA107B, MEA108B, MEA109B