Qualification details

Employability Skill 

Industry/enterprise requirements for this qualification include: 

Communication

• Understanding complex directions from senior managers
• Understanding input from professional engineers, specialist personnel and technical representatives
• Liaising with maintenance personnel, aircrew and specialists regarding maintenance problems
• Talking to senior mangers about maintenance and maintenance management problems and making presentations
• Providing guidance to others and clearly describing faults, problems and spares requirements
• Negotiating with team members, senior managers and aircraft owners/operators regarding timing and progress of work activities
• Negotiating with potential suppliers of items of aeronautical product, piece parts and consumables
• Negotiating with clients regarding the drafting of technical publications and maintenance data
• Negotiating with senior managers regarding issues, such as activity timelines and budgetary matters
• Understanding and interpreting regulations, procedures, instructions and maintenance publications
• Giving written instructions, such as maintenance orders and compilation of maintenance documentation
• Writing reports and proposals as required by regulations and organisational procedures
• Interpreting organisational charts, wiring diagrams and system schematics, reading drawings relating to maintenance activities and interpreting fault diagnosis guides and logic charts
• Using computers to obtain maintenance and maintenance management data, complete documentation and correspond using email
• Networking with other maintenance managers and with others involved in maintenance-related integrated logistic support activities

Teamwork

• Performing tasks as an individual while being responsive to team members or colleagues and senior managers and allowing for relevant human factors
• Working effectively with others who may be of different ages, gender, race, religion and political persuasion
• Assisting team members with task definition and providing advice on work processes and troubleshooting
• Matching team member skills and authorisations to the task and adapting to contingencies
• Providing leadership and development of team commitment and dynamics
• Monitoring and assessing team performance and providing mentoring and performance feedback
• Gaining the trust and confidence of team members and resolving conflict within the team
• Providing team members with the opportunity for ongoing competency development

Problem solving

• Identifying problems in a timely manner and developing practical solutions to maintenance problems not fully covered by maintenance data and to maintenance management problems
• Proposing solutions to problems as repair schemes, modifications or as amendments to specified maintenance processes
• Assisting with the resolution of complex problems as a team effort
• Constantly reviewing problem solving skills and ability to effectively apply competencies to solve problems within the limits permitted by regulatory and organisational guidelines
• Responding to emergencies or accidents in accordance with legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements
• Using mathematical techniques to relate test results to system or component performance, to convert values between systems of measurement, to calculate weight and balance, to develop management solutions to problems, and in performing integrated logistic support procedures

Initiative and enterprise

• Adapting to new situations that arise as a consequence of regulatory changes, technology, contractual requirements, personnel management changes, operational circumstances, revised maintenance data, practices and procedures
• Varying work practices and behaviour as a result of performance feedback from subordinates, peers and managers
• Evaluating ideas to ensure that technical and regulatory aspects have been fully covered before proposing action that may result in modifications or changes to work processes
• Applying human factors to avoid maintenance errors and maintain quality standards
• Adapting competencies to the performance of a wide range of maintenance tasks
• Managing a process of innovation and continuous improvement and a willingness to initiate, support and participate in the effective introduction of new work practices
• Assessing risks and taking action to achieve a recognised benefit or advantage to the organisation as a consequence of revised processes and procedures
• Evaluating software requirements and hardware enhancements

Planning and organising

• Clarifying task objectives and required outcomes through discussion with managers and team members
• Planning the use of resources and allocating personnel and resources to tasks
• Monitoring the time taken to complete tasks against team requirements or targets provided by management
• Assessing work requirements for quotations
• Collecting, analysing and organising information relating to assigned maintenance tasks and confirming the purpose and required work outcomes
• Identifying contingency situations and taking action to resolve problems
• Identifying the extent of impact on assigned work of changes in procedures, work instructions or regulatory requirements
• Analysing customer requirements and organisational work capacity
• Developing, managing and evaluating aircraft and component maintenance strategies and plans
• Establishing clear task goals and deliverables
• Reviewing or developing budgets and managing financial resources
• Surveying and assessing organisational and customer needs

Self-management

• Accepting responsibility for managing individual workload to meet target completion times or fit in with team milestones
• Assessing personal knowledge and skills when assisting team members with complex tasks and when proposing modifications, repair schemes, changes to maintenance practices or in managing integrated logistic support activities
• Actively seeking opportunities to develop competencies and to apply them across a range of tasks and application of legislation, regulations, policy and procedures to achieve required outcomes and build confidence in own ideas and vision
• Effectively manage personal work priorities and professional development
• Identifying career paths and training opportunities that will assist in attaining career goals

Learning

• Taking advantage of learning opportunities that arise through training courses provided by the organisation or external providers and through mentoring and on-the-job training
• Adapting competencies to accommodate new ideas and techniques
• Using feedback from subordinates, peers and managers to identify ways in which competence can be improved
• Mentoring and providing on-the-job training and induction training to team members
• Interpreting units of competency and applying them to attainment of identified career goals

Technology

• Operating aircraft and avionic systems, test equipment and ground support equipment, ground running engines and troubleshooting faults
• Using on-board maintenance systems and using maintenance-related software
• Maintaining aircraft systems, components and test stands
• Performance testing of aircraft systems and engines
• Storing and caring for components, parts, tools, test equipment and support equipment
• Complying with requirements to complete maintenance records, develop and revise maintenance data and propose amendments to technical publications
• Amending various forms of maintenance data
• Using computers and microfiche to obtain maintenance data and using computers to complete records, reports and documentation

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA272B

Apply basic scientific principles and techniques in avionic engineering situations

Nil

MEA273A

Select and test avionic engineering materials

Nil

MEM30007A

Select common engineering materials

Nil

MEM30012A

Apply mathematical techniques in a manufacturing engineering or related environment

Nil

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

MEA120B

Manage an aviation maintenance quality system

Nil

MEA121B

Manage aircraft/aeronautical product configuration

Nil

MEA123B

Manage aviation maintenance work environment policy and practices

Nil

MEA124B

Coordinate change programs in the aviation maintenance environment

Nil

MEA125B

Develop aviation maintenance personnel

Nil

MEA133B

Communicate aviation technical and maintenance knowledge

Nil

MEA134B

Establish, maintain and evaluate the organisation’s occupational health and safety system

Nil

MEA135A

Use computers in aviation maintenance-related integrated logistic support activities

Nil

MEA141B

Manage risk in aviation maintenance

Nil

MEA142B

Manage self in the aviation maintenance environment

Nil

MSAENV672B

Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability

Nil

Unit code 

Unit title 

Prerequisites 

Unit selection guidance 

MEA115A

Plan and implement aeronautical product maintenance activities

Nil

MEA122B

Manage aircraft/equipment system performance testing

MEA126B

MEA126B

Manage aircraft maintenance activities

Nil

MEA127B

Provide technical advice in the maintenance and management of aircraft and aeronautical product

MEA272B

MEA273A

Applicable to the CASA regulatory environment

MEA128B

Provide engineering advice in the modification, maintenance and management of aircraft systems

MEA272B

MEA273A

Applicable to the ADF regulatory environment

MEA129A

Investigate technical aspects of aviation occurrences

Nil

Applicable to the ADF regulatory environment

MEA130A

Manage deployed/detached aviation maintenance activities

Nil

Applicable to the ADF regulatory environment

MEA131B

Manage the custody, transfer and disposal of aircraft, aeronautical product and support equipment

Nil

MEA132A

Manage budgetary resources in the aviation maintenance environment

Nil

MEA146A or PSPMNGT610A may be taken instead of this unit

MEA136A

Assess aviation maintenance spares and manage repairable items

MEA135A

MEA137A

Write aviation technical publications

MEA135A

MEA138B

Perform aviation technical publication management activities

MEA137A

MEA139A

Perform aviation maintenance-related integrated logistic support activities

Nil

MEA140A

Supervise aviation maintenance teams and perform maintenance quality inspections

Nil

For supervisors within the ADF regulatory system

MEA143B

Develop and manage maintenance error management programs

Nil

Applicable to the CASA regulatory environment

MEA146A

Prepare and manage aviation maintenance organisation budgets and financial plans

Nil

Alternative to MEA132A and to PSPMNGT610A

MEA147A

Perform airworthiness management and maintenance program tasks

MEA137A

Applicable to CAMO employment

PSPMNGT610A

Manage public sector financial resources

Nil

Alternative to MEA132A and to MEA146A