Safety and Quality Certification of Aviation Maintenance Technicians, Professionals, and Leaders

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Safety and Quality Certification of Aviation
Maintenance Technicians, Professionals, and
Leaders
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• We are developing
• Aviation Maintenance Technician
• Safety and Quality Certification
• that is
• Designed and developed with broad industry
  consensus
• Offers a clear value proposition for companies
  and individuals
• Managed by a committed global organization
  comprised of SAE International, PAMA, and PRI

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PAMA Ends Statement

• The industry resource for information regarding
  aviation maintenance.
• Advocate for the aviation maintenance
  professional.
• Legal Regulatory Affairs
• Life-long Learning
• Safety
• Standardization
• Industry recognition for the value of the AMT
• Promoting a positive public image of the aviation
  maintenance profession.

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Maintenance Certification Achieves the PAMA Ends

• Advocating Safety, Standardization, and Life-long
  learning
• Bringing recognition to technicians as they
  achieve higher levels of certification
• Promoting a positive public image of the aviation
  maintenance profession.

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Professional Certification...

• Enhances quality, reliability, and customer
  delight by
• Identifying a consensus-driven competency
  baseline.
• Documenting regulatory compliance.
• Providing a method of monitoring continuous
  capability.
• Encouraging employee loyalty and career
  stability.
• Validates the growing use of specialists to
  accomplish specific tasks.

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SAE/PAMA Certification

• Establishes the state of our art for advanced
  knowledge, skill and ability.
• Provides a method of continuous qualification and
  monitoring.
• Addresses the looming shortage of technicians by
  focusing on youth.
• Documents minimum regulatory compliance.
• Identifies or creates a consensus-driven
  baseline.
• Validates the growing use of specialists to
  accomplish specific tasks.
• Recognizes the shifting role of the certificated
  technician to one of technical oversight.
• Is synonymous with quality workmanship,
  reliability, customer care, reduced rework, lower
  insurance premiums, and increased employee
  loyalty and career stability.

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• Three organizations in one with proven track
  records of making things happen

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• Non-profit professional technical organization
• (IRS code 501C6)
• Created in 1990 by SAE in response to aero
  industry need
• Annually conducts 3500 technical audits of
  special processes on behalf of worlds primes
• Conducts 450 QMS (AS9100) audits annually
• 65 regular staff and 180 contract auditors
• Offices in
• Warrendale, PA (World HQ)
• London
• Derby
• Beijing
• Tokyo

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I N D I V I D U A L S
C O M P A N Y
Standards Networking Technical Literature Techni
cal Conferences Courses Problem Solving Sessions
(Symposia) Leadership Skills
New Products Cost Reduction Improved
Quality Process Improvements Standards Managem
ent Skills
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ENTERPRISE ATTRIBUTES

• Industry Service
• Proactive Staff
• Speed to Market
• Global Impact
• Recognition
• Functionality
• Engage industry leaders

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ENTERPRISE CAPABILITIES

• Training
• Certification
• Standards
• Neutral Forum
• Standards
• Worlds largest producer
• De facto ISO standards
• Consensus building expertise
• Neutral Forum
• Mitigates legal concerns
• Promotes common objectives
• Administrative and facilitation expertise

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• Appropriately organized with proven capabilities
  to serve the worlds aerospace maintenance sector

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Industry Feedback on Certification and Training
Rationale

• Sharpen the Saw
• Confidence in Customer interaction
• Establish a standard
• Develop communication skills
• High School counselor recommendations
• Documented skill levels
• Professionalism and Ethics
• Human Factors knowledge
• Quantified body of knowledge
• Central database of skills and capabilities
• Enhances specialized skills
• Develop supervisory skills

• Regulatory understanding
• Hone quality skills
• Verifiable competency/capability
• Improved aircraft reliability and availability
• Develop advance digital skills
• Confidence in ability to do work
• Willingness to pay higher salaries
• Develop qualified instructors
• Centralized approach
• Identifiable career progression
• FAA/EASA Compliance
• Develop workforce with career path/apprenticeship
  programs
• Higher first pass yield

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Key Issues

• Identify and fill industry-wide training gaps.
• Enhance public awareness of aviation maintenance
  professionals.
• Promote a structured system of professional
  career paths.
• Accelerate technician career growth.

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Aviation Maintenance Technician Safety and
Quality Certification Proposal

• Draft Program Overview

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Situation

• Airline restructuring has shifted much heavy and
  routine maintenance to 3rd parties domestic and
  international.
• Technical workforce permitted by FAA to be
  non-certificated, supervised by Certificated
  professionals.
• Regulations are broad and technician training and
  skill requirements without standards Capable
• FAA efforts to add regulations to raise
  technician skill levels through advanced
  certification have failed.
• European regulatory certification model is
  onerous.
• U.S. Industry appears ready to embrace voluntary
  standards for non-certificated and specialized
  skills.
• Global market respects certification and would
  likely support international standard.
• Manufacturing skills are not taught or
  certificated outside OEMs.

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Aviation Maintenance CertificationGovernment and
Industry Market Drivers

• 2003 GAO study Not enough technicians
• FAR 145 training program requirements Being
  written into FAR 135
• Vision 100 Congressional Order Inadequate
  maintenance training
• FAA HF Skyway proposals Need other ways to
  train technicians to new technologies
• AC 145.10 Safety focus for improved training
• FAA Safety Team (FAAST Team) Focus on avoiding
  mistakes
• FAR Part 66 Attempted to advance training and
  certification standards
• FAR 147 AMT curriculum does not support todays
  or future technology.
• PAMA Increasing professionalism and
  recognition.
• ATEC Schools closing because fewer technicians
  enrolling.
• FAA-sponsored Aviation Maintenance Technician of
  the Future Summit.
• Highly competitive environment

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Aviation Maintenance CertificationProposal

• Develop a plan to certify aviation maintenance
  professionals along a broad spectrum of
  competencies from entry level technician to
  professional specialists, inspectors and
  supervisors/managers.
• Solicit and earn consensus and support from the
  aviation maintenance and manufacturing leadership
  stakeholders for a system of voluntary advanced
  standards and training programs.
• Build a training, education, and experience
  tracking system to provide guidance and
  recognition to technicians as they progress along
  their career paths.
• Develop testing in concert with established
  aviation maintenance competency standards.
• Create training syllabi for dissemination to the
  aviation maintenance technician community.

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Professional Certification Model
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CAREER PATH - CERTIFICATIONS
Non-certificated worker
Specialist Inspector
Leadership Tech Specialist
AWIM A World in Motion
AP (new, graduate)
Engineer AP Required
Leader AP Required
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Introduction to Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math (STEM) Intern/Apprenticeships available
to High School Juniors and Seniors Gen/Fam, Best
Practices, Tool Usage, Regulations, Recordkeeping
Challenge 1 Elementary School Grades 4, 5,
6 Skimmer, JetToy, Steel Can Rover Basic
Propulsion Team Building
Challenge 2 Middle School Grade 7 Motorized Toy
Gears and Motors
Challenge 4 Elementary through High School
Grades 4 10 Electricity and Electronics Writer,
Graphic Artist, Parts and Materials, Engineer,
Production and Fabrication, Marketing
Challenge 3 Middle School Grade
8 Glider Understanding Weight/Lift Force
Motion Problem solving Career orientation
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Non-certificated worker
AP (Entry level)
CORE SUBJECTS Technical Data FARs - Part 65, AC
43.13 SUPS OSHA/EPA Precision Meas. Tools Safety
First Aid Communications DrugFree
Workplace Forms-Recordkeeping Human
Factors Customer Delight and Teambuilding
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Specialist
Engineer AP Required
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Composite Bonded Structures Specialist (Projected)
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Manager AP Required
CORE SUBJECTS Supervisory skills Teambuilding
and Customer Delight Recordkeeping Communicatio
ns Business Overview Recordkeeping Training
oversight Regulatory compliance Audits
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• Achievement of PAMA Aviation Maintenance
  Technician (AMT) Certification
  Requirements
• 10 years documented aviation experience
• or
• Baccalaureate degree from an accredited
  college
• Established baseline in the following
  leadership competencies

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PAMA Board has committed to

• Pursue Certification of Aviation Maintenance
  Professionals
• Global Standard Bearer of Professional
  Maintenance

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PAMA Supporters

• Will you help identify and overcome roadblocks as
  they appear?
• Will you be an advocate for the success of this
  initiative with your public support for its
  merits with

• Aviation Industry leaders?
• Individual Maintenance Professionals?