Overview:
Marine Radar Data Collection
Location: Remote
Clearance: Secret Clearance
Travel: As Required
Astrion offers its employees a competitive salary and benefits package, 401K, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Short and Long-Term Disability. As a growing company, we provide advancement opportunities and Tuition Reimbursement.
We are looking for a qualified USMC TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) Engineering Technician.
The candidate will provide direct technical support to the Government In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR system. In this role, the candidate will provide expert technical advice for the operation, training, maintenance, and repair of deployed systems. In addition, the candidate will: provide technical assistance to fleet Marines in the initial setup and operation of newly deployed systems and will provide refresher training as required; provide documentation of the results of maintenance, troubleshooting, and problem resolution actions; provide remote support and/or on-site troubleshooting and repair in response to requests for technical assistance.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Support engineering efforts related to the development, testing, and analysis of G/ATOR upgrades, replacement, or modifications
- Analyze requirements, develop acquisition documentation, and support configuration management of documentation
- Recommend, review, and test Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) for engineering accuracy and ability to implement on fielded systems
- Provide engineering task/project management for the Radar Engineering Team and provide technical support for the fielding of the production system to USMC Units
- Participates as part of a test team, supporting test planning, defining data to be collected during test, collecting test data, performing data analysis, and generating summary reports for presentation.
- Supports engineering efforts related to design, testing, and analysis of G/ATOR upgrades or modifications.
- Evaluates test plans and provides recommendations for data collection.
- Supports test execution, acting as data collection coordinator and lead for data reduction and analysis.
- Participate in post testing analysis, group discussion and report generation.
- Participate in testing and evaluation of G/ATOR system improvements and new software baselines, documenting test results and recommendations
- Participate in maintenance procedure changes
- Participate in technical documentation review and modifications
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Practical experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting USMC air search radar systems (e.g., TPS-80, TPS-59, TPS-63, etc.)
- Practical experience with Air Defense/Surveillance Radar (AD/SR), Air Traffic Control (ATC) Radar, or Ground Weapons Locating Radar (GWLR) operations
- Practical experience with preventative maintenance processes
- Experience with deployment and setup of ground-based mobile radar systems
- Familiarity with USMC logistics support and repair parts requisition processes
- Interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills
- Personal computer skills (competent with MS Office applications)
Desired Qualifications and Skills:
- Associates Degree in Technical field, Technical Certification or USMC Radar MOS
- Five years minimum
