Tech Control III - Kwajalein Atoll - 3896

Range Generation Next•Huntsville, AL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

RGNext is hiring a Tech Control III to support ballistic missile testing and space situational awareness operations at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This is an overseas, unaccompanied position with no family accommodation or pets. The role exercises technical control, coordination, and supervision over Global Information Grid (GIG) facilities and transmission systems, including unmanned facilities under a Technical Control Facility (TCF). It supports reliable communications through network monitoring and management, troubleshooting and restoration, service activation and changes, testing, reporting, and administration. The position is part of a 24-hour center and requires flexibility to work various shifts, including evenings, nights, and weekends. The employee must relocate to the United States Army Garrison—Kwajalein Atoll, be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. passport, and be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility. The posting describes free housing, three meals a day, and potential overseas U.S. tax incentives (FEIE) as benefits of the location.

Requirements

Associate degree in electronics or a related technical field, military experience, or experience in lieu of education.
Five years of communications experience, including at least four years in Technical Control or equivalent commercial fixed-station operations and maintenance.
Basic PC operation skills.
Ability to patch and test communications circuits, perform frequency changes, troubleshoot, and restore circuits.
Proficiency with communications test equipment, including equipment such as transmission impairment measuring sets, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, T-Berd 8000, T-Berd 4000, HST-3000, Fireberd 6000 Communications Analyzer, T-Berd 224 PCM Analyzer, T-Berd 310 Communications Analyzer, frequency counters, and oscillators.
Ability to read schematic diagrams, manufacturers’ service manuals, and other documentation to determine equipment faults or circuit degradation and perform repair and restoration procedures.
Ability and flexibility to work various shifts as required, including evenings, nights, and weekends, in a 24-hour center.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for eligibility.
Ability to relocate to the United States Army Garrison—Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. passport.

Responsibilities

Exercise technical control, coordination, and supervision over subordinate GIG facilities, transmission systems, trunks, and circuits, including unmanned facilities under TCF control.
Report facility, transmission link, trunk, and circuit status in accordance with DISA reporting directives and applicable DISA network operations instructions.
Coordinate and troubleshoot with DISA NetOps centers, adjacent facilities, customer agencies, maintenance organizations, and commercial vendors to isolate faults, repair systems, and restore service.
Implement DISA restoral plans, Minimum Essential Circuit Lists, and local restoral plans as directed; restore disrupted services not covered by those plans using available communications capabilities.
Assist with development of DISA restoral plans and Minimum Essential Circuit Lists; develop local restoral plans, periodically review plans, provide corrections, and maintain current copies.
Perform quality-control tests and measurements on applicable trunks, channels, circuits, and equipment for which the TCF is responsible.
Monitor and ensure the quality of GIG transmission, timing and synchronization, multiplex, and switching equipment using installed monitoring capabilities and communications test equipment.
Review system, trunk, circuit, and equipment performance; coordinate and assist in troubleshooting, isolating, repairing, and correcting faults or unsatisfactory conditions.
Test and accept, activate, change, and deactivate trunks and circuits in accordance with DISA service orders or higher-level direction, including during times of stress; submit applicable service reports.
Perform assigned network management functions, including bandwidth control.
Request authorized service interruptions for subordinate facilities and control routine downtime for preventive maintenance and equipment substitution.
Arrange for users to release individual circuits for quality-control testing, routine maintenance, and other scheduled service interruptions.
Perform administration and record keeping required by DISA circulars; submit facility or link data and corrections according to applicable instructions.
Submit DD Form 1368 for leased-circuit outages when assigned responsibility, in accordance with applicable DISA procedures.
Report meaconing, intrusion, jamming, and interference affecting electromagnetic systems in accordance with service directives, with information copies to the FCO and DISA elements.
Operate the Base Radio function according to procedures outlined in ACP 113, 124, 125, and 147.
Monitor and transmit as required on all international distress frequencies assigned to Kwajalein Atoll.
Perform other duties as assigned.