Electronics Technician I

Position: Full-time hourly position covered under a collective bargaining agreement at Pohakuloa Trianing Area in Hilo, Hawaii. 

Job Description:

Under minimal supervision performs scheduled, preventative, and corrective maintenance on TADSS and GFP, following technical manuals, preventaitev maintenance checklists, or industry best practices when no checklist is available.  Informs the government of the mainetnance timelines for both manned and unmanned sites, including notifying when personnel need to travel for maintenance purposes or to support increased demand.  Ensures maintenance tasks do not conflict with training, exercises, and testing.  Records all maintenance activities in real-time in ISTS.  Adheres to warranty terms for mainteained items, tracking them by part number, serial number, and location.  Sets up and tests TADSS to confirm they work as expected, including interoperability and operation verification.  Monitors hardware beaselines, reverting to previous versions if updates fail.  Analyzes maintenance trends, track component consumption, manages obssolescence, implement risk management strategies, and conduct failure analysis to minimize risks and improve system reliability.  Installs modifications or upgrade kits as per manufacturer’s instructions.

TDL Specific:

*Support three primary missions (Steady-state Training Support, Point of Need operations, and Surge Support). 

Steady-state Training Support:

*During steady state training, support Soldiers in planning the training exercise in the TMT software, coordinating and aligning training equipment and RVCT modules to prepare for the exercise. 

*Initializing and troubleshooting the local RVCT training network with the RVCT modules to ensure connectivity. In Execution, provide Over the Shoulder training directly to Soldiers as needed and any exercise control functions such as roleplay or intelligence reports to support training. 

In the Assessment Phase:

*Provide an After-Action Review for Soldiers to execute, and a take home package of any lessons learned during the training.

Point of Need Training:

*provide the following services for the RVCT modules and associated equipment: Prep for shipment, Transportation, set up of equipment, Initializing and troubleshooting's at the Point of Need location, over the shoulder execution support. 

*After the exercise is completed, provide an After-Action Review and take-home package.

*  Upon termination of the exercise, prep for shipment, Transportation, set up of equipment, Initializing and troubleshooting's at the original location)

*exercise is completed, provide an After-Action Review and take-home package.  Upon termination of the exercise, prep for shipment, Transportation, set up of equipment, Initializing and troubleshooting's at the original location)

*Surge Support: Shift personnel from other locations to support training that outweighs a current sites personnel requirement.  Exercise could be up to 28 modules of RVCT or two companies.  This will be for a limited time to support training at that site.

Provide TADSS operational and “over-the-shoulder” assistance and training to users and operators, as requested, on STE operation (both STE RVCT and STE-SW (TSS/TMT) IAW Government provided NET products.

Travel:

*Travel may be required up to 30% of time to include OCONUS

Degree(s)/Years of Experience:

(0 BA/BS) or (4 AA) or (6 No Degree).

Certificaiton(s):

Basic Electronic Technical Certificate

Desired Experience:

*Experience leading electronic maintenance activities including resourcing and training other electronic technicians and performing scheduled, preventive, and corrective maintenance on TADSS and GFP, following technical manuals, preventive maintenance checklists, or industry best practices when no checklist is available.

*Experience informing the government of the maintenance timelines for both staffed and unstaffed sites, including notifying when personnel need to travel for maintenance purposes or to support increased demand.

*Responsible for the maintenance tasks do not conflict with training, exercises, and testing and recording all maintenance activities in real-time in InSite. *Experience adhering to warranty terms for maintained items, tracking them by part number, serial number, and location.

*Requiring setting up and tests TADSS to confirm they work as expected, including interoperability and operation verification.

*Experience monitoring hardware baselines, reverting to previous versions if updates fail. Experience requiring analyzing maintenance trends, tracks component consumption, manages obsolescence, implements risk management strategies, and conducts failure analysis to minimize risks and improve system reliability.

*Responsible for configuration management of all maintenance on TADSS and GFP devices and installation of modifications or upgrade kits as per manufacturer's instructions.

*Responsible for maintenance instruction, installation of modifications or upgrade kits as per manufacturer's instructions.

*Experience requiring serving as a preventive rover for unstaffed sites and be responsible for installing and maintaining software and hardware installs and managing patches and security compliance for installed applications and operating systems.

*  STE Device knowledge preferred.

Clearance:

NACI Background Check

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