Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Sixty-two of Sixty-six

    8600 - ENGINE OVERHAUL FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations concerned primarily with the manufacture, repair, modification, and major overhaul of engines (except where covered by another job family), including the disassembly, reassembly, and test phases of engine overhaul programs.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

8602 Aircraft Engine Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, modification, and test of conventional, modified, and experimental aircraft engines, their components, assemblies, and subassemblies. Work involving engine accessories such as starters, generators, anti-icers, and fuel control devices is included when such assignments are incidental to work on the complete engine. May require varying levels of electronics knowledge work situations may require varying levels of electronics knowledge.

8610 Small Engine Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs involved in diagnosing malfunctions, determining needed repairs, repairing, and testing small gasoline and diesel engines such as those found on motor boats, lawn mowers, power saws, and other similar equipment.

8675 Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs involving troubleshooting and correcting malfunctions of liquid fuel rocket engines. This work includes diagnosing the cause of failure, disassembling engine to the point where the failure can be corrected, replacing defective parts, reassembling engine, operating test stand to check out various systems of the engine, and making final adjustments.