Electronics Technician Supervisor

Chickasaw Nation Industries•Charleston, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Electronics Technician (ET) Supervisor leads and supervises the ET team supporting the NPP. The role works with the Program Manager and CNI Talent Acquisition to maintain staffing for Electronics Technician positions and handles team administration, including timesheets, appraisals, training, and travel documentation. The position works closely with the Program Manager and administrative team, the government project manager, and program stakeholders to meet program needs. It deploys to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and requires travel to Antarctica for up to six months per year. Personnel deploying to Antarctica must pass a physical qualification, including medical and dental examinations. The supervisor coaches, trains, and mentors staff; oversees performance and personnel management; and ensures that contract deliverables, reports, maintenance records, and documentation are completed and submitted on time. The role supports aviation command-and-control projects and technical work in polar environments, coordinating with Department of Defense, non-DoD, and international participants. It also oversees technical readiness and maintenance support for navigational aids, communications, and meteorology systems at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields, including remote locations. The work includes scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, installation, repair, calibration, system checks, safety and configuration compliance, inventory control, technical documentation, training, operational-readiness reporting, and support for flight checks and certifications. Maintenance availability may be required up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and technicians may travel by helicopter, light airplane, or cargo aircraft to support systems. The primary work setting is an office/warehouse, with work also performed in extreme cold and dark conditions and at remote Antarctic sites.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, plus formal electronics or communications training from a technical school or Class A or B military school and four years of electronics apprentice-program experience.
Four years of practical experience in electronics repair, maintenance, installation, and checkout; experience may be concurrent with other stated experience.
Two years of practical experience in electronics repair, maintenance, and checkout.
Two years of experience with aviation ground navigation systems, meteorology systems, or air-traffic communications systems; experience may be concurrent.
Valid United States passport; the posting states the passport is reimbursable.
Ability to obtain a T1 clearance through the government customer and pass internal background checks.
Valid driver’s license.
Ability to pass the medical and dental examination and physical qualification required before Antarctic deployment; examination expenses are reimbursable.
Ability to perform job duties in extreme cold and dark work environments.
Knowledge and experience maintaining hardware, including replacing or repairing hard drives, motherboards, video cards, RAM, CPUs, monitors, power supplies, network cards, printers, and other peripherals.
Ability to follow directions and work independently or as part of a team.
Reliability and punctuality.
Ability to practice and promote required safety standards.
Proficiency conducting audits and using quality-management systems.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
Ability to persuade others to accept recommendations and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions.
Ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements.
Organization, problem-solving, resolution, and critical-thinking skills.
Customer-service and relationship-building skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to read and interpret business, professional, technical, and government materials; write reports, correspondence, and procedures; and present information to groups.
Ability to perform basic arithmetic, calculate rates, ratios, and percentages, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to solve practical problems with limited standardization and interpret written, oral, diagram, or schedule-based instructions.

Nice To Haves

Experience with navigational aids, communications, and/or meteorological equipment.

Responsibilities

Work with the Program Manager and CNI Talent Acquisition to maintain staffing for ET positions in the NPP.
Manage ET team administrative functions, including timesheets, appraisals, training, and travel documents.
Lead, supervise, coach, train, and mentor assigned staff, and oversee personnel performance.
Coordinate workshops and meetings; develop agendas, participate in planning, prepare minutes, and track action items.
Work with the government project manager and support program needs at the sponsor and stakeholder levels.
Coordinate and interface with DoD, non-DoD, and international participants.
Recommend policies, doctrine, tactics, and procedures.
Provide technical subject matter for documentation, consultation, and training relating to aviation command-and-control projects and polar-environment work.
Track and submit ET contract deliverables on time, including meeting records, plans of action and milestones, monthly status reports, trip reports, end-of-season and lessons-learned reports, position binders, SOPs, and program acquisition documents.
Report operational readiness, capabilities, limitations, and reliability of installed systems.
Maintain and verify work-center safety requirements and equipment, and submit facility repair requests.
Maintain accurate equipment maintenance, certification, inventory, and tool records; assess test-equipment condition, calibration, and suitability.
Calibrate and repair sensors and test equipment; document and archive maintenance actions.
Follow configuration-control, security, frequency-management, and safety policies and procedures.
Schedule and conduct training, including pre-deployment ground school and on-site training; maintain current CPR certification for technicians.
Provide estimated airlift needs before each operational season and ensure spare-parts and component inventories are accurate and adequate.
Conduct authorized equipment modifications, installations, and removals; update drawings and technical documentation.
Prepare routine and special reports, point papers, analyses, and briefs, and participate in work groups and management-related tasks.
Ensure assigned systems operate according to technical specifications and operational directives; measure and report system operational availability and follow outage-reporting procedures.
Ensure full-time technicians meet USAP deployment requirements and that deployed technicians have valid driver’s licenses and required light-vehicle qualifications unless otherwise stated in a task order.
Provide maintenance support availability up to 24 hours per day and seven days per week at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields, including remote sites accessed by aircraft.
Maintain a written Master Station Log of maintenance activity, equipment status, changes, and significant events.
Develop and provide incident, accident, and other emergent post-action reports by required due dates.
Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of navigational aids, including TACAN, precision and visual landing systems, power equipment, control systems, and test and calibration equipment.
Ensure correct navigational-aid sighting and installation, initiate flight-check requests, secure voice- and data-recording media, and ensure qualified technician coverage for system setup, maintenance, and removal.
Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of communications systems, including UHF/VHF air-traffic-control equipment, voice switches, emergency radios, satellite terminals, recorders, interfaces, control systems, networks, cabling, and antennas.
Ensure communications installations follow applicable instructions, maintain circuit access during contingency operations, comply with frequency-management processes, and ensure qualified technician coverage.
Assist technicians with communications components and subsystems within navigational-aid and meteorology systems.
Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of meteorology systems, including fixed and portable systems, sounding systems, sensors, displays, data loggers, transmission devices, renewable-energy charging systems, and data networks.
Ensure qualified technicians are available to set up, maintain, and remove meteorology systems at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields.
Attend required safety training and perform maintenance and repair at remote locations such as deep-field camps and automated observation stations.
Maintain a neat and orderly work area, report and correct unsafe conditions within the employee’s ability, and promote compliance with applicable company, government, and contract requirements.
Support personal development by participating in available company training and plan daily work in accordance with company policy, the job description, and supervisor instructions.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Company life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401(k) with immediate vesting
Professional development assistance
Legal aid assistance program
Family planning and fertility assistance
Paid time off
11 federal holidays
Employee assistance program
Training and development opportunities
Reimbursement for required passport and pre-deployment medical and dental examination expenses