Job Description
Job DescriptionBoarhog LLC is hiring a Navy SLQ-32/SEWIP Technician with experience in performing comprehensive component and system level maintenance for shipboard Systems. The work is performed at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) on Wallops Island, VA. The SCSC is located on a barrier island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and is a tenant of the NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. SCSC provides live combat systems suites with platform specific radars and sensors and supports the following functions: combat system lifetime support engineering, platform certification, operational and technical evaluation, combat system training, interoperability testing and participates in at-sea exercises. SCSC provides a high-fidelity representative combat system of every ship in the AEGIS, Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) fleet today and those planned in the future.
Future SCSC capabilities include High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-Dazzler and Surveillance Weapon System (HELIOS), next-generation radars, the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP), and a cooperative with NASA developing Unmanned Arial Vehicles and supporting Large Space Vehicle launches as SCSC continues to evolve toward becoming the preferred asset for technology and systems integration, test and verification of combat systems across the five battlespace domains of space, surface, air, undersea, and cyberspace / electronic warfare. Technicians with an interest in expanding their systems expertise are afforded opportunities to work on these and other capabilities.
RESPONSIBILITIES:This technician will perform comprehensive equipment and system level maintenance on all SLQ-32 and SEWIP systems in the AEGIS and SSDS facilities at SCSC, and provide system/equipment configuration and operational support for all deployed baseline AEGIS and SSDS variants. The technician will schedule planned maintenance actions using the SKED program in accordance with the Navy’s Maintenance Material Management (3M) system and also be responsible for documenting all maintenance actions, including repair part requisitions, using the OMNS-NG program.
WORK SCHEDULE:Successful candidate must be willing and able to perform in a variety of 40 hour work-week configurations that may be scheduled on a rotational basis:
- Monday-Friday (5 x 8): 1st Shift
- Monday-Friday (5 x 8): 2nd Shift
- Variable 4 x 10 shifts that may include weekends (4 days on/3 days off) and may be 1st or 2nd shift
- Sliding (5 x 8) work weeks (Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday-Saturday) and may be 1st or 2nd shift
REQUIREMENTS:
- High School diploma or GED
- At least three (3) years demonstrated experience assessing, troubleshooting, and performing corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance on systems and equipment.
- PQS 301 qualification. If selected candidate is not PQS 301 qualified on or before hire date, he/she must be willing and able to obtain PQS 301 qualification within three (3) months of employment.
- DoD Secret level security clearance. The criteria for obtaining and holding a clearance are established by the U.S. government, to include being a U.S. citizen. If the selected candidate does not hold a Secret clearance, the contingent offer will delay the start date until an interim Secret clearance is granted.
PREFERRED but not required:
- Active DoD Secret security clearance
- Certified ETA Fiber Optic Installer
- Security+ Certification
- Experience with Network devices and an understanding of Operating Systems, preferably RedHat or UNIX
- Preference will be given to candidates who reside in, or will move into, a Small Business Administration (SBA) designated Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) area, of which Wallops Island VA is one. See the SBA website for the map of HUBZone locations. .
CULTURE, COMPENSATION and BENEFITS:Boarhog has 13 years of defense industrial base steady, controlled growth and profitability, offering our full-time associates extensive compensation benefits:
- This position is covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA). The wage range for this position is determined by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor on a contract-by-contract basis.
- Opportunities for additional compensation.
- Medical / Dental / Vision Health Benefits.
- Self-Determination
- Generous 401K retirement plan after six months of full-time employment, with pre-tax/post-tax options and company matching with immediate vesting to boost retirement savings
- Health savings account.
- Vacation
- Stipend for residing in a HUBZone location (https://maps.certify.sba.gov/hubzone/map).
- Relocation or small signing bonus, and earned performance bonus.
We thrive in a welcoming, family-like culture within a completely flat organization, with a vested interest in associates' personal and professional goals and aspirations. As a successful and respected Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVO) certified and Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) certified small business of professionals, there is no fat on the Boarhog... nobody has ever and will never make a living watching other associates do work. Boarhog associates therefore enjoy a culture self-determination, encouraged and supported to exercise greater control and make choices and manage their own lives, The result is an exceedingly low associate turnover rate (We're not a staffing company body shop), selectively hiring on average just three associates a year, and Boarhog's first associate is still with us. Once a Boarhog, always a Boarhog. The company Chief Executive and majority owner, a Navy Surface Warfare veteran retiree with decades of public sector systems acquisition experience, certifications and advanced education, actively engages in day-to-day operations and also periodically performs direct work on government and commercial contracts. Pigs in the breakfast... skin-in-the-game... story behind the logo. Come join us.
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