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15K Aircraft Components Repair Supervisor

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Overview

An aircraft components repair supervisor oversees maintenance, repair, and technical inspections for aircraft components, avionics, and associated electronic and electrical systems. This supervisor plans maintenance facilities, determines personnel and resource requirements, trains subordinates, and prepares evaluations, reports, and records.

Core Skills

  • Repair labor, parts, and facility estimation
  • Component and avionics repair shop planning
  • Aircraft component technical inspection oversight
  • Technical manual-based repair instruction

Civilian Career Paths

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Aircraft Component Repair Supervisor

Supervising component and avionics repairs, technical inspections, and repair-resource planning transfers directly to civilian aircraft repair shop supervision.

How to prepare: Build a work sample showing how you estimated labor and parts, assigned repair work, and tracked inspection completion for a component repair shop.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Avionics Technicians

Oversight of avionics repair and technical inspection provides relevant systems and procedural knowledge for civilian avionics bench work.

How to prepare: Complete a practical avionics troubleshooting refresher using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, and voltmeters to assess and address hands-on skill gaps.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test and troubleshoot instruments, components, and assemblies, using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, or voltmeters.
  • Keep records of maintenance and repair work.
  • Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    Develop documented knowledge of foreign object prevention, including housekeeping, tool accountability, and material handling in aircraft repair environments.

    Eligibility and preparation: No mandatory prior credential, education, or experience; AET certification is not required.

    For: Aircraft Component Repair Supervisor, Avionics Technicians

Career Growth

  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

    Demonstrate maintenance and reliability knowledge to support progression in civilian repair supervision.

    Eligibility and preparation: No education or work-experience minimum; candidates must not have taken the exam within the preceding six months.

    For: Aircraft Component Repair Supervisor

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (7 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 15K Aircraft Components Repair Supervisor

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 15K (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Repair labor, parts, and facility estimation, Component and avionics repair shop planning, Aircraft component technical inspection oversight, Technical manual-based repair instruction, Aircraft Component Repair Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00), Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  2. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Aircraft Component Repair Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Avionics Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  4. COOL credential mapping: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    [4] 15K cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

    [5]SpaceTEC Partners, Inc.: ASTM NCATT certification information, exam list, and FAQ · Background; Exams Offered (Aircraft Electronics Technician, AET Endorsements, Other ASTM NCATT exams); Frequently Asked Questions; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

  5. ASTM NCATT FOE Elements of Basic Awareness Study Guide (PDF, copyright 2022 ASTM International NCATT)

    [6] Scope (sec. 1) and Significance and Use (sec. 3); retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Foreign Object Elimination (FOE)

  6. COOL credential mapping: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

    [7] 15K cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

  7. Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals: CMRP eligibility

    [8] Eligibility; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

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68K4Aircraft Components Repair Supervisor

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