Some of the functions of an aircraft maintenance department are as follows: Periodic maintenance and routine inspection and servicing of aircraft, associated SE, and aeronautical material and components. Maintenance and inspection include the necessary disassembly, cleaning, examination, repair, modification, test, inspection, assembly, and preservation. Special work (when required) to comply with TDs or local instructions. On the other hand, a staff relationship (normally shown by a solid horizontal line feeding into the main arteries of the organizational chart) exists between an advisory staff supervisor and a production line supervisor. The sole concern of staff personnel is to service and support the production effort. Management Correction of aircraft and equipment discrepancies. Assurance of high quality in all work. Maintenance of required records and technical publications. Maintenance and custody of tools and other equipment provided the activity for its own use. Management exercises the authority and takes the responsibility for the performance of the mission, tasks, and work of the maintenance department. The organizational structure lets the aircraft maintenance officer (AMO) (with the aid of subordinate officers) manage the maintenance department. The AMO is responsible to the commanding officer for the accomplishment of the department’s mission. The AMO directs the maintenance department according to directives from higher authority. Training of assigned personnel. Conducting maintenance and ground-handling safety programs. Submission of reports for statistical, analytical, and historical purposes. The depth and complexity of specific functions vary with the number and type of aircraft involved and the assigned maintenance level. This chapter covers the aircraft maintenance organizations for the 0- and I-level maintenance activities. You will probably be assigned to an activity that performs only 0- or I-level maintenance. The functional management responsibilities assigned to the AMO are planning, control, and production. Also, the AMO estimates and programs facilities, equipment, manpower, and training requirements. With subordinate maintenance department officers, the AMO provides direction and guidance to subordinate divisions. The subordinate divisions implement and comply with all local- and higher-authority maintenance policies and technical directives. Normally, the following subordinate officers assist the AMO in the management of the maintenance department: Organizational Structure Relationships Assistant aircraft maintenance officer. This officer ensures that the staff divisions conform to established policies involving quality assurance and supervises maintenance administration and department training. The organizational structure of aircraft main- tenance activities uses the principles and concepts of modern management. This structure incorporates the basic aspects of organizing-pinpointing responsibilities, span of control, alignment of functions, division of work, uniformity of assignments, and delegation of authority commensurate with the assignment of responsibility. Maintenance material control officer. This officer is directly responsible to the AMO for the overall productive effort and material support of the department, Aircraft maintenance division and branch officers. These officers organize and manage their respective divisions and branches. A line relationship (normally shown by a solid Specific responsibilities of these officers are vertical line on an organizational chart) is a outlined in OPNAVINST 4790.2. The organization of relationship that exists between a superior and the maintenance department provides firm lines of subordinate within both staff and line segments of the authority from the AMO to the personnel who do the organization. This relationship involves the direct work for which the department is responsible. Major supervisory functions of assigning work to segments, called divisions, of the department report subordinates and appraisal of performance. directly to the department head. Several branches 1-5