Line Service Technician

Welcome to Lake Breeze Aviation at Sheboygan County Memorial International Airport, where precision meets passion in aviation services. As a Line Service Technician, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations for aircraft and providing unparalleled service to our clients. Your responsibilities will include aircraft marshalling, refueling, towing, and ensuring adherence to rigorous safety standards. This dynamic role demands meticulous attention to detail, effective communication skills, and a proactive approach to supporting the needs of pilots and passengers alike. Join us in delivering excellence in every flight, every day.

• Provide services, including lavatory and water service, towing, de-icing, greeting pilots and passengers, marshalling and parking, dispensing fuel into aircraft, and wing-walking. Perform duties and greet pilots and passengers with a welcoming, friendly attitude.
• Perform daily fuel truck inspections. Ensure fuel trucks and other FBO-related equipment are operating properly and safely. May perform light repair duties as necessary.
• Assist with baggage and transporting pilots and passengers.
• Perform daily fuel farm inspections and maintain a superior level of fuel quality control.
• Assist Airport Maintenance Technicians with duties as needed. Duties may include wildlife mitigation, building repair, cleaning, lawn cutting, landscaping maintenance, removing ice and snow from airside and landside pavement areas, unloading freight and stocking areas, performing airfield inspections, inspecting mechanical systems as needed and assisting in ensuring deficiencies are corrected.
• Promotes safety in all areas of FBO and Airport operations by understanding and complying with all operational and safety requirements. Maintain clean and secure ramp areas.
• Assist in emergency response as needed.
• Communicates information using aviation phonetic alphabet to clearly speak and hear numerical sequences over two-way radio system. Address incoming pilots via two-way radio system and provide direction when Customer Service Assistant is unable to do so.
• Possesses sufficient knowledge of the FBO’s organization, policies, and personnel to exercise independent judgement as expected by management.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Post high school courses related to required technical skills or related experience.
• Must be able to satisfactorily complete Line Service Technician training provided by the FBO fuel supplier within thirty (30) days of employment. Must be able to complete the National Air Transportation Association’s Safety 1st program within six (6) months of employment.
• Basic computer skills.
• Familiarity with aeronautical regulations and operations preferred.
• A current, valid State of Wisconsin driver’s license.
• Ability to understand and effectively carry out oral and written instructions.

• Work is performed in outdoor and indoor settings. Ability to frequently lift up to 40 pounds, but must be capable of lifting 75 pounds. A combination of sitting and standing postures may be required, use of hands, ability to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required for this job include distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to work in an environment with exposure to adverse temperature and/or humidity extremes.
• Must be able to operate snow removal equipment, mowing equipment, fire extinguishers, tow bars and tugs, lavatory carts, ground power units, and other tools as needed.
• Risk of blood borne pathogen exposure is considered low.

Working Relationships 

• Reports directly to FBO Supervisor and Airport Superintendent and is indirectly supervised by Transportation Director. Has frequent contact with airport tenants, the general public, and other County employees.

Salary : $20 - $25