Long-term: a two-year, renewable commitment, including a required six-month return home.
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- Vision trip to PNG
- Language and cross-cultural training
- Arrival on the field
Join the teamLine Mechanic
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Line Mechanic
Every rescue starts in the hangar, the only one in the region.
I’m interestedThe work
Line Mechanics inspect and maintain our Cessna 206 floatplanes to airworthy standards, through salt, silt and humidity, in the only hangar in the region. They are piston aircraft with large-diameter seaplane propellers: no radials, no turbines. Expect sheet-metal and corrosion work, inspections, and keeping equipment and facilities ready for safe, timely operations every day. You’ll mentor PNG apprentice engineers and work alongside pilots who give about a third of their time to maintenance. Our goal is a full-time Line Mechanic at each base. We serve Gulf Province now, and our Kapuna base (docks, hangar and staff housing) is being built.
A day in the hangar
Floats that live on river water. Salt, silt and humidity, and water that works its way between panels, where corrosion starts. Inspections, sheet-metal repairs and an aircraft that has to be ready when the next call comes. Beside you, a PNG apprentice engineer learning the trade from the way you work.
The ministry half
Every role is a ministry role. Line Mechanics take part in outreach and evangelism along the Sepik and in the Gulf, and serve in the hospital ministry. Mentoring PNG apprentice engineers is part of the ministry too. Our field staff say that if they had to choose, they’d take a mechanic over a pilot.
Who thrives
A&Ps who ask what breaks and like solving it. That includes working mechanics, mid-career A&Ps and mission-aviation graduates. Leadership experience is welcome: preferred, not required. If you’re an A&P student or a working mechanic, a three-week maintenance team is the best first step.
Requirements
- A&P certificate
- Able to obtain a CASA PNG LAME licence
- At least one year of aircraft maintenance experience
- Cross-cultural experience
- Management and leadership experience preferred, not required
- For every role: a call to serve Christ across cultures
Ways to serve
Not ready for that yet? Join a three-week aviation maintenance team.
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