Operate, install, calibrate, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles. May record and interpret test data.

Other names for Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technicians: Aerographer, Aerospace Mechanic, Aerospace Physiological Technician, Aerospace Technician, Altitude Chamber Technician, Avionics Technician, Avionics Test Technician, Calibration Technician, Communication Technician, Electronics Technician, Engineering Specialist Technician, Engineering Technician, Engineering Test Specialist, Field Service Engineer, Flight Data Technician, Flight Technician, Flight Test Data Acquisition Technician, Instrumentation Technician, Project Engineer, Radar Technician, Research Mechanic, Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Systems Test Technician, Test Equipment Mechanic, Test Technician, Wind Tunnel Mechanic, Wind Tunnel Technician,

• Inspect, diagnose, maintain, and operate test setups and equipment to detect malfunctions.
• Record and interpret test data on parts, assemblies, and mechanisms.
• Confer with engineering personnel regarding details and implications of test procedures and results.
• Adjust, repair or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment.
• Identify required data, data acquisition plans and test parameters, setting up equipment to conform to these specifications.
• Construct and maintain test facilities for aircraft parts and systems, according to specifications.
• Operate and calibrate computer systems and devices to comply with test requirements and to perform data acquisition and analysis.
• Test aircraft systems under simulated operational conditions, performing systems readiness tests and pre- and post-operational checkouts, to establish design or fabrication parameters.
• Fabricate and install parts and systems to be tested in test equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and test instruments.
• Finish vehicle instrumentation and deinstrumentation.
• Exchange cooling system components in various vehicles.

• Speed sensors
• Accelerometers
• Adjustable wrenches
• Pneumatic drill
• Respirators
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Squares
• Hex keys
• Vacuum ovens
• Welders
• Metal cutters
• Hammers
• Bench vises
• Specialty wrenches
• Safety harnesses or belts
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Borescope inspection equipment
• Taps or dies
• Box end wrenches
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Leak testing equipment
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Combination wrenches
• Lathes
• Milling cutters
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Coordinate measuring machines CMM
• Countersinks
• Depth gauges
• Micrometers
• Calipers
• Calipers
• Compression testers
• Height gauges
• Torque wrenches
• Compasses
• Workshop presses
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Liquid penetrant examination equipment
• Eddy current examination equipment
• Force or torque sensors
• Fire extinguishers
• Files
• Screwdrivers
• Flowmeters
• Magnetic particle examination equipment
• Force or torque sensors
• Forklifts
• IR 192 radiography examination equipment
• Milling cutters
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Gage block set
• Go or no go gauge
• Gyroscopic instruments
• Saws
• Files
• Files
• Tinners snips
• Spanner wrenches
• Manipulators
• Impact hammers
• Infrared imagers
• Files
• Lasers
• Compasses
• Magnetic particle examination equipment
• Mallets
• Mass spectrometers
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Micrometers
• Files
• Milling cutters
• Screwdrivers
• Open end wrenches
• Workshop cranes
• Spray booths
• Personal computers
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Go or no go gauge
• Taps or dies
• Power screwguns
• Pressure indicators
• Metal stamps or punches
• Protractors
• Respirators
• Explosive initiators
• Screwdrivers
• Rivet tools
• Files
• Goggles
• Fall protection lanyard
• End cut pliers
• Scaffolding
• Scribers
• Vibration testers
• Shot peen machine
• Milling cutters
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Thickness measuring devices
• Sockets
• Hammers
• Soldering irons or guns
• Taps or dies
• Calipers
• Straight edges
• Cold chisels
• Straight edges
• Strain gauges
• Taps or dies
• Telescopes
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Mainframe console or dumb terminals
• Theodolites
• Thermocouples
• Thickness measuring devices
• Thread counters or gauges
• Torque wrenches
• Torx keys
• Squares
• Twist drills
• Ultrasonic examination equipment
• Gage block set
• Calipers
• Lathes
• Vibration testers
• Vibration testers
• Vibration testers
• Files
• Voltage or current meters
• Blow torches
• Wire lug crimping tool
• X ray radiography examination equipment

Inventory management software

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Computer aided manufacturing CAM software