Aviation Maintenance Safety Training

Job Title:  Aviation Maintenance Safety Training and Support

Location: Multiple Locations

• Kaneohe Bay, HI
• Hickam AFB, HI
• Whidbey Island, WA
• Pt. Mugu, CA
• North Island, CA
• Fort Worth, TX
• New Orleans, LA
• Jacksonville, FL
• Oceana, VA
• NAF, Washington, D.C.
• McGuire AFB, NJ
• NAS Key West, FL

Duties:

The training shall include:

• A comprehensive and robust communication strategy
• Operational challenges that activate objectives of the training.
• Unified talking points.
• Cognitive forcing tools for decision support on maintenance tasks
• Briefing cards
• Case study/analysis
• Data reports with recommendations for unit-level leadership derived from the technicians trained at their unit and delivered within 72 hours of training.
• Provide class, real-time technician, and leader attitudinal assessments captured digitally with an anonymous audience response system (ARS)
• Be proven in like-industry to reduce mishaps resulting from compliance-based errors stemming from personnel behaviors and attitudes that predispose units to unsafe maintenance practices.
• The Applicant shall develop training for three separate levels of CNAFR Aviation Maintenance Professionals:  Aviation Maintenance Technicians E-1 to E-4, First Line Supervisors E-5 to E-6, and Unit Leaders E-7 and above, which includes Commanders, Executive Officers, and Command Master Chiefs.
• Plan and Coordinate Training Events
• The Applicant shall continually update the course curriculum based on data derived from the proceeding classes to optimize the live-training courses and other digital media.  At a minimum, these updates will occur quarterly.
• The structured, customized training shall cover topics relevant and applicable to the Naval Sustainment System and supports maintainers, supervisors, and officers, those who will implement the new knowledge, skills, and behaviors in CNAFR aviation maintenance.

1. Course 1 shall be a 3-hour overview and countermeasures course for E-1 to E-4 Aviation Maintenance Technicians for the top seven negative outcomes in global maintenance; Wrong Person, Wrong Part, Wrong Fluid, Unsecured Panels, Improper Movement, Improper/Incomplete Inspection, and Lost Tool or Item.

2. Course 2 shall be a 2 hour mentorship overview for E-5 and E-6 First Line Supervisors designed to instills the desires and skills needed to mentor young maintainers and develop future leaders to include role modeling, debriefs, and how to conduct a constructive intervention specifically related to the Technician curriculum.

3. Course 3 shall be a 2-hour overview for E-7 and Above including Commanders, Executive Officers, and Command Master Chiefs on maintenance excellence with specific guidance on how to reinforce program objectives and systemically correct cultural issues in real-time.

• Conduct Initial Training to kick off the program to site-leadership and provide a Communication Plan, to include, at a minimum, aviation maintenance posters for each of the seven specific events, micro-videos for post training sustainment, talking points, briefing cards, Operational Challenge ideas, and quarterly draft articles, to keep communication top of mind throughout the training events.
• The Applicant shall be available to provide training on weekends if requested.
• The Applicant shall document and track maintainer responses to training and brief leadership on progress monthly.
• The Applicant shall provide required tools to administer training and support.
• The Applicant shall provide geographically specific and T/M/S specific debrief and recommendations to RESFORON Leadership within 72 hours of training completion.