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Aircraft Engine Mechanic
Air National Guard Units · Fort Wayne, Indiana · Closes in 10 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: National Guard and reserves, The public, Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency.
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S., including federal employees, National Guard and reserve members, and people willing to join the Indiana Air National Guard. Applicants who are not already National Guard members must be eligible for immediate membership in military grade E-1 through E-5.
Experience: You need experience or training doing assembly, disassembly, and modifications of aircraft engines, plus at least 1 year of equivalent experience at the next lower grade. Experience using hand and power tools is also required, and the announcement names maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of aircraft engines as specialized experience.
Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 10 days (November 7, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: Your resume and documents are first checked against the minimum qualifications. Minimally qualified applicants then answer an assessment questionnaire, and their answers are compared with their resume. If you rate yourself higher than your application supports, your rating may be lowered or you may be removed from consideration.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Hours per week must be listed for every job on your resume, because experience is only credited on a regular 40-hour workweek basis.
- Do not include a personal photograph in your application package, or you will not be considered.
- If you are an Indiana National Guard technician hired or promoted in the last 36 months, you will need a signed Exception to Policy memo. Contact the HRO Staffing inbox if you are unsure.
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