Implement preliminary (advance) maintenance plans for assigned weapon systems and schedules immediate maintenance for transient aircraft.
Monitor progress of job completion by dispatched personnel.
Maintain visual aids depicting status of maintenance actions in progress, specialist availability and status of aerospace vehicles, aerospace ground equipment (AGE), training equipment, transportation and tow vehicles, munitions loads, arming of guns and munitions, and location of aircraft and dispatched AGE.
Coordinate with Materiel Control on mission capable (MICAP) and non-mission capable status (NMCS) of parts, adjustments to in-shop work priorities, and verification of urgency of need designators.
Coordinate with Quality Assurance on functional check flight (FCF) requirements, Air Operations on flying schedule, other maintenance shops for coordination of repair work and with other functional areas as required.
Request necessary support services such as fire fighting activity standby, fuel and defuel and civil engineer support.
Control the maintenance communications and transportation systems to provide for the effective transmission of information and movement of material and maintenance personnel.
Develop and maintain current procedural check sheets for use during actions such as mass loads combat turnaround, broken arrow (nuclear emergency), emergency notification, aircraft crash, flightl1ne fire, severe weather warning evacuation.
Make required inputs to the automated data system and retrieves data and/or computer generated products as required.