
Avionics/Electrical Technician 3
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Job overview
The Avionics/Electrical Technician provides technical expertise in testing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining aircraft avionics and electrical systems. The role includes teaching installation and testing practices, overseeing engineering changes, operating test equipment, and supporting aircraft certification and final-phase testing. The technician also helps ensure work meets safety, quality, conformity, and schedule requirements.
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Full job description
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Education and Experience Requirements
High School Diploma or GED required. 5 years experience in an avionics/electrical career field. 2 years of accredited schooling in aviation electronics may offset two years of experience requirement. A & P license, FCC license or NCATT certification preferred.
Position Purpose:
Provides technical expertise while performing various operational, functional tests and repairs of avionics/electronic, aircraft equipment and systems to ensure a defect free aircraft. Provides superior technical expertise in testing, troubleshooting and repairing system discrepancies to ensure minimum schedule impact. Demonstrates technical expertise by defining and implementing process changes to reduce cost and meet schedule without compromising Safety or Quality.
Job Description
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
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Demonstrates superior technical skills and expertise in avionics and acft systems operational testing and troubleshooting .
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Teaches the installation and functionally testing of electrical/avionics components and systems per Engineering specifications, drawings and maintenance manuals ensuring a defect free system .
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Ensures quality and efficiency of all installations: troubleshoots and teaches troubleshooting processes/concepts to provide timely, quality repairs of malfunctioning systems .
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Demonstrates the skills and knowledge required. to effective and efficiently repair or replace defective components and wiring to ensure installations meet conformity. Demonstrates effective repair techniques using acceptable practices including splicing, soldering and pinning of wiring .
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Oversees the performance and compliance with engineering changes and modifications as required.
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Sets up and operates necessary test equipment. Conducts functional and operational tests to evaluate performance and reliability .
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Demonstrates through diligent compliance the importance of maintaining daily logs and other paperwork. Ensures that all work performed on the acft is properly and completely documented .
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As required, pre-inspects work of others prior to submitting to inspection for approval to reduce rework and inspection time .
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Provides the knowledge and technical expertise in testing and maintaining test equipment and electronic systems and components as required.
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Enforces the company FOD program, tool control program, 5-S program and all safety regulations .
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Adapts to sudden schedule changes .
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Coordinates with other disciplines concerning projects .
Additional Functions:
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Where required, teaches the installation and functionally testing of electrical/avionics components and systems per Engineering specifications, drawings and maintenance manuals ensuring a defect free system .
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Self inspection capability for all avionics testing functions in applicable areas .
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In support of acft certification and final phase testing, may include flight tests on acft as required. .
Perform other duties as assigned.
Other Requirements:
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Preferred proficiency in the operation and troubleshooting of other acft systems or disciplines other than avionics, such as hydraulics, landing gear, flight controls, environmental controls or structural installations and repairs.
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APU run qualification and engine run qualification preferred.
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Ability to read and interpret basic blueprints and schematic diagrams.
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Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
Additional Information
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Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Gulfstream does not provide work visa sponsorship for this position, unless the applicant is a currently sponsored Gulfstream employee.
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How this job compares
Set against the 994 open Electrical Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$73–109K/yr100 salary ranges
- California median$35–45/hr35 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Electrical Technician jobs in California and 994 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Electrical Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (665 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 468 of the 994 open Electrical Technician jobs (47%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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