UAS Technician
Maintains, inspects, tests, troubleshoots, and repairs Unmanned Aircraft Systems and associated ground-support equipment. The technician ensures UAS platforms, payloads, communications equipment, batteries, and control systems remain safe, reliable, mission-capable, and properly documented.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Perform scheduled and corrective maintenance on UAS airframes, propulsion systems, flight-control components, payloads, batteries, and ground-control equipment.
• Conduct pre-use, post-flight, and periodic inspections in accordance with approved technical data, maintenance manuals, and organizational procedures.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, software, and communications faults; identify root causes and complete or coordinate appropriate repairs.
• Install, configure, test, and update UAS hardware, firmware, software, sensors, communications systems, and mission payloads.
• Maintain tools, test equipment, repair parts, consumables, and technical publications required to support UAS operations.
• Inspect, charge, discharge, store, transport, and track batteries in accordance with safety requirements and manufacturer guidance.
• Conduct functional checks and ground tests to verify equipment performance before returning systems to service.
• Document maintenance actions, discrepancies, component replacements, inspections, equipment status, and configuration changes.
• Maintain inventory and accountability for UAS equipment, spare parts, batteries, payloads, and support systems.
• Identify maintenance trends, recurring faults, safety hazards, and reliability concerns; recommend corrective actions to the supervisor.
• Support UAS operators during mission preparation, launch and recovery activities, equipment setup, and post-mission servicing.
• Ensure work areas and maintenance practices comply with applicable safety, environmental, tool-control, and equipment-handling requirements.
• Assist in developing maintenance procedures, checklists, technical training, and equipment-readiness reports.
• Coordinate with manufacturers, vendors, engineering personnel, and organizational leadership for repair support, warranty issues, and technical assistance as required.
