Specialty Summary. Supervises and performs vehicle and vehicular equipment maintenance activities and functions, including diagnostics, repairs, rebuilding components and assemblies and fabrication of parts. Ensures compliance with vehicle maintenance policies, directives, and procedures.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Plans and schedules vehicle and equipment maintenance activities. Plans and controls work methods, production schedules, operating procedures, and performance standards. Monitors established maintenance priorities; tire and battery shop operations, and determines mission requirements. Ensures vehicles, equipment, tools, parts, and manpower are available to support mission requirements.
Inspects and evaluates vehicles and equipment. Diagnoses malfunctions of major assemblies and subassemblies to determine the extent of repair or replacement, or recommend disposition of vehicles and equipment. Inspects repaired or rebuilt parts and equipment to ensure work conforms to standards. Inspects equipment for required modification and installation of safety devices. Ensures shop equipment is inspected and serviced at required intervals and that unserviceable tools and equipment are removed from service and their condition tagged. Identifies and initiates materiel deficiency reports at work center level.
Performs vehicle and equipment maintenance functions. Solves complex maintenance problems by interpreting layout drawings, specifications, schematics, diagrams, and operating characteristics of vehicles and components. Uses technical orders, commercial manuals or automated systems to determine maintenance procedures and research parts. Troubleshoots, adjusts, repairs, and tests vehicles; alternate fuel, diesel, and gasoline engines; fuel, exhaust, and electrical systems; clutches; torque converters; transmissions; transfer cases; power takeoffs; drive lines; axles; frames; steering, suspension, dispensing, brake, air, and hydraulic systems; tracks; winches; emission control, heating, and air-conditioning systems, active/passive restraint systems and other mounted or special equipment. Cuts, grinds, repairs, and installs vehicle glass and Plexiglas. Welds vehicle parts and accessories.
Practices and ensures compliance with all established safety policies and standards. Implements hazardous waste management policies and procedures ensuring collection, control, and disposition of hazardous and toxic waste material accumulations.
Specialty Qualifications:
Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: principles of vehicle maintenance; Air Force Occupational Safety and Health Standards; training programs and procedures; simple mathematical computations; alternate fuel, diesel, and gasoline engines; fuel; suspension; steering; air and hydraulic brake systems; automatic and standard transmissions; driving axles and power trains; electrical wiring systems; pump and dispensing systems; equipment used with special purpose vehicles; use of oxyacetylene and electrical welding equipment; metal working methods; battle damage repair; supply discipline; and procedures for obtaining parts, supplies, and equipment.
Education. Not used.
Training: For award of AFSC 2T370, completion of the vehicle maintenance craftsman course is mandatory.
Experience. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 2T351, 2T352A or 2T352C is mandatory. Also, experience supervising functions such as inspecting, repairing, modifying, or troubleshooting vehicular and equipment systems, to include welding operations and glass work.
Other. The following are mandatory for award and retention in this specialty. Qualification to operate government vehicles according to AFI 24-301, Vehicle Operations. Qualification to operate government vehicles for shop use according to AFI 24-302, Vehicle Management.
