Secret Squirrel:
"If maintenance hits a snag, that's the schedule out of the window, no question; safety first"
If only life were that simple 'twould indeed be easy... and I'm not going to burst into song about how that shows your lack of knowledge of how the engineer works....
It's very simple really...since the whole world is now run by accountants, and we are all paid (even if unequally) we can be totally confident that we are ALL needed, otherwise we would not be employed - the bean counters will only pay for that which is totally indispensable, from FMS down to the weedkiller for the runway cracks.
Anybody else agree that this has now been talked to death and hasn't a cat in hell's chance of resolution?