Tech Control IV - Kwajalein Atoll - 3898

Range Generation Next•Huntsville, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Tech Control IV exercises technical control, coordination, and supervision over subordinate Global Information Grid (GIG) facilities and transmission systems, including trunks and circuits. This overseas, accompanied position is located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The role reports facility and network status under applicable DISA directives, coordinates troubleshooting and service restoration with DISA NetOps centers and other organizations, and implements or helps develop DISA and local restoral plans. The position performs quality-control testing and measurements, monitors GIG transmission and related equipment, reviews performance, and coordinates corrective action. It tests, accepts, activates, changes, and deactivates trunks and circuits; performs assigned network-management functions, including bandwidth control; coordinates authorized service interruptions and maintenance; and maintains required administration, records, and reports. The role also reports electromagnetic interference incidents, operates the base radio function, and monitors and transmits on assigned international distress frequencies. Some supervisory duties, including leading personnel in day-to-day operations, may be required. The position requires the ability to work various shifts, including evenings, nights, and weekends, as part of a 24-hour center, and to relocate to the United States Army Garrison—Kwajalein Atoll. The posting notes free housing and potential overseas U.S. tax incentives. RGNext offers benefits beginning on day one, including insurance coverage, paid time off, holiday pay, and a retirement savings plan with a company match and day-one vesting.

Requirements

Associate degree in electronics or a related technical field, military experience, or experience in lieu of education.
Eight or more 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 communications.
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 identify equipment faults or circuit degradation and perform repair and restoration procedures.
Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 20 pounds independently.
Ability and flexibility to work various shifts, 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; only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
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 a TCF.
Report facility, transmission-link, trunk, and circuit status in accordance with DISA reporting directives and applicable supplements.
Coordinate with DISA NetOps centers, adjacent facilities, customer agencies, maintenance organizations, and commercial vendors to troubleshoot, isolate, repair, and restore service.
Implement DISA Restoral Plans, Minimum Essential Circuit Lists, and local restoral plans as directed, and restore disrupted service through other available communications capabilities when needed.
Assist with developing 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.
Ensure the quality of GIG transmission, timing and synchronization, multiplex, and switching equipment using installed monitoring capabilities and communications test equipment.
Review and analyze system, trunk, circuit, and equipment performance, and coordinate troubleshooting and corrective action with relevant organizations.
Test and accept, activate, change, and deactivate trunks and circuits in accordance with service orders or higher-level direction, including during periods of stress; submit applicable reports.
Perform assigned network-management functions, including bandwidth control.
Request authorized service interruptions and control routine downtime for preventive maintenance and equipment substitution.
Arrange for user release of individual circuits for quality-control testing, routine maintenance, and other scheduled service interruptions.
Perform administration and record-keeping functions required by DISA Circulars; submit facility or link data and corrections as directed.
Submit DD Form 1368 for qualifying leased-circuit outages when assigned responsibility.
Report meaconing, intrusion, jamming, and interference affecting GIG systems in accordance with service directives.
Operate the base radio function according to applicable procedures and monitor and transmit on assigned international distress frequencies.
Perform supervisory duties as needed, including leading personnel conducting day-to-day operations.
Perform other duties as assigned.