aircraft maintenance engineer

Aircraft maintenance engineers make preflight and postflight inspections, adjustments, and minor repairs to ensure safe and sound performance of aircrafts. They inspect aircraft prior to takeoff to detect malfunctions such as oil leaks, electrical or hydraulic problems. They verify passenger and cargo distribution and amount of fuel to ensure that weight and balance specifications are met.

The most in-demand skills for this role include airport planning, engineering principles, aircraft flight control systems, electromechanics, electrical engineering, aircraft mechanics. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives aircraft maintenance engineer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.