APPLICATION:
OPENING DATE: 1 SEP 2026
CLOSING DATE: 15 OCT 2026
AFSC: 21A
POSITION TITLE: Aircraft Maintenance
DUTY LOCATION: 133rd Airlift Wing, St. Paul, MN
SELECTING OFFICIAL: Col. Stacey Meiser
WHO MAY APPLY: Qualified Enlisted members (commissioning opportunity) and current officers, rank O-2 and below.
REMARKS: This posting is to solicit applications for a traditional guardsman 21A vacancy within the 133 MXG.
SPECIALTY SUMMARY:
Leads, trains, and equips personnel supporting aerospace equipment sustainment and operations. Manages maintenance and modification of aircraft and associated equipment. Administers aircraft maintenance programs and resources. Directs aircraft maintenance production, staff activity, and related materiel programs. Assesses unit capability and advises senior leadership.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Directs aircraft maintenance mission generation and repair network activities. Maintains workforce discipline and responds to personnel issues while balancing workforce availability and skill levels with operational requirements. Works with functional managers to develop, formulate, and manage fiscal resources. Instills maintenance discipline, security awareness and force protection concepts. Ensures accuracy of documentation, i.e., aircraft forms and automated systems. Ensures adherence to technical data, policy, procedures, and safe maintenance practices.
2. Develops, coordinates, and executes flying and maintenance schedules. Manages aircraft configuration; daily aircraft servicing, weapons loading, launch, recovery, and repair; periodic aircraft maintenance inspections; and flightline safety and foreign object damage (FOD) prevention and dropped object programs (DOP). Manages overall aircraft fleet health and ensures aircraft availability to execute mission requirements. Analyzes aircraft maintenance indicators to identify trends and initiates corrective actions.
3. Directs maintenance activities that may include aircraft propulsion, pneudraulics, egress, fuel systems, electro-environmental, Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL) and avionics systems. Also, may include management of aerospace ground equipment, structural repair, low-observable repair, corrosion control, machine, welding, inspection, aero-repair, crash, damaged, disabled aircraft recovery, non-destructive inspection, and off-equipment munitions and armament suspension equipment.
4. Manages quality assurance, maintenance training, budget and resource management, analysis, facilities, shared resources to include end-of-runway and weapons load training. Manages plans and programs, modifications, and modernizations requirements.
5. Formulates maintenance plans and policies to meet unit tasking. Assesses unit maintenance capability in support of combat related operational plans and provides inputs for capability assessments for each plan. Defines aircraft maintenance procedures and requirements in response to emergency or contingency situations.
6. Coordinates core logistics requirements supporting aircraft maintenance operations. Establishes support requirements for supply requisition, repair cycle, delivery, combat support, ground and aerial port transportation, base support plans, and munitions requirements.
7. Directs and manages wholesale logistics life cycle sustainment support. Coordinates production schedules to include induction and selling systems. Defines technical problems and economic factors related to research and development, and system operational data to evaluate programs, assess trends, and identify improvements and deficiencies. Manages weapons system programs, funding of depot maintenance workloads, and transportation distribution systems. Manages logistics tests and evaluation on new acquisition programs and aircraft modifications.
AFSC REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must hold or have previously held any 2A or 2W AFSC
Knowledge:
The following knowledge is mandatory for award of the AFSC: maintenance and personnel management procedures, and organizational and mission requirements; capabilities, limitations, and basic operating principles of aircraft systems and components; theory of flight and airframe construction; life cycle sustainment, quality assurance; supply, transportation, logistics plans, contracting, flying operations, munitions, and other unit operations related to aircraft maintenance units.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree
HOW TO APPLY: Applicants must forward the requirements listed in the checklist below to arrive at the 133rd Airlift Wing Recruiting Office no later than the Closing Date indicated above. E-mail completed applications to 133.AW.Officer.Accession.Org@us.af.mil subject line must read (DSG-21A_Application_LASTNAME). Combine all documents into a SINGLE PDF File if possible. If you have any questions or issues submitting your application, please reach out to TSgt Moritz in recruiting.
APPLICATION PACKAGE CHECKLIST:
Cover Letter Resume
Career Data Brief
Current Fitness Printout
Unofficial/Official College Transcript showing graduation date
Aircraft Maintenance (21A) - Training Pipeline:
Aircraft Maintenance Officer Course (AMOC): 3.5 months at Sheppard AFB, TX
Mission Qualification: at the 133rd Airlift Wing, St. Paul, MN
Application Package Details:
Applications will be accepted from
You will be contacted to schedule interview following closing date
Cover Letter and Resume
Please include these in your application package.
Career Data Brief
Can be found here: https://vmpf.us.af.mil/vMPFNet40/PersonalData/CDB/ViewCDB.aspx
Fitness Test Results:
Can be found here: https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/usaf-fitness-management
College Degree/Transcript
Include in your application a copy of your college transcript. An official copy is not required.
Letters of Recommendation (Optional)
Please limit to no more than three letters. We prefer quality over quantity