Maintenance Technician

T-Solutions is the company people want to work for and work with when seeking global services and innovative solutions. We employ highly qualified and uniquely skilled professionals who are committed to providing services with integrity. We are the preferred partner to deliver excellence and to enrich our clients, employees, and communities.

Who We Are

T-Solutions is a woman-owned, veteran-owned business headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia that creates exceptional, responsive solutions to complex challenges for our global clients in the field of government contracting. We are an innovative, agile provider of specialized, technical solutions and an exceptional cache of capabilities that enable mission-critical operations and decision making. We provide the expertise and guidance needed to help customers succeed in today's era of defense, security, maintenance engineering, logistics, and business transformation. Our core competencies are aligned with the current needs of our customers; and those competencies anticipate and facilitate work with our customer to address their future needs. We are continually striving to adapt emerging and proven technologies to further enhance the abilities of our customers and partners.

Career Opportunity

We are currently seeking candidates for Maintenance Technician positions, located at our Wallops Island, VA station. These positions are part of our CSS contract in support of the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) Wallops Island. SCSC requires support for management, engineering, operation, and technical expertise for activation, operations, maintenance and engineering of equipment, systems, and computer programs in support of all Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) missions and projects performed at SCSC. SCSC provides live and simulated integrated warfare capabilities in a net-centric, maritime environment to develop, test, evaluate, and conduct fleet operations and training for the warfighter.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive readiness, preventive, and corrective maintenance, and troubleshooting support at the equipment and system level and restoration of equipment and systems to specification for all combat system facilities at SCSC, including Aegis, Ship Self Defense System, and combat systems, weapon systems, simulators, interface switching, tactical communications, tactical audio/visual, cable infrastructure, fiber infrastructure and equipment.
• Perform corrective and preventive maintenance and micro-miniature (2M) repair to maintain combat system readiness. All maintenance will be in accordance with the Navy Maintenance Material Management (3M) system utilizing SKED with the goal of achieving 100 percent equipment availability and systems maintained to shipboard standard.

• Provide on-the-job training to the Navy members of the integrated maintenance team.
• Prepare and implement quarterly maintenance schedules as approved by the Government Combat System Maintenance Officer.
• Provides on-site maintenance support personnel during all operational shifts and mission events to match expected customer agency workloads and quality of service expectations, maintenance requirements to maintain readiness, and essential real time troubleshooting of scheduled systems and equipment.
• Performs maintenance tasks to include cable fabrication, repair, and installation (including fiber optic), cable removal, equipment overhaul and refurbishment, tactical electrical power connection and repair, and tactical cooling plumbing connection and repair, equipment foundation fabrication, and heavy weather preparation and recovery.
• Comply with equipment lockout/tagout and working aloft policies and procedures for all maintenance activities.

• Remove, ship, and replace SCSC equipment in support of Government requirements.
• Plan and schedule maintenance to minimize systems and equipment downtime to maximize mission support, while still maintaining high system availability and meeting planned maintenance schedules.
• Promptly report the status of systems and equipment that are not functioning properly and have the potential to impact customer events.
• Provide a summary to the Government each morning on the status of all major systems, the results from the previous day of systems, equipment, and services provided to customer events, and the plans to correct problems with systems, equipment, or service.
• Investigate and report on any mission event that failed to meet any customer objectives to include root cause analysis.

• Provide detailed failure reporting, analysis and corrective action taken in accordance with MIL-HDBK-2155 or best business practices to provide management visibility and control for reliability and maintainability improvement of hardware and associated software.

Travel

• This position has a low level of travel.

Education, Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Abilities Required

• A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Three years demonstrated experience assessing, troubleshooting, and performing corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance on systems and equipment.
• Maintenance experience with one or more of the following systems: AN/SLQ-32(V) all variants, AN/USG-2/2B CEC, NAVSSI, AN/SPY-1, AN/SPQ-9B, Analog Navigation equipment (IC rate), CANES (IT rate)/GCCS-M (FC rate), 2D Sensors (i.e., SPS-49, SPS-67, SPS-73), AN/SPS-48G, AN/UPX-29 IFF, NAVSSI, WSN-7, AEGIS Weapon System Networks, Tomahawk Weapons System, Close In Weapon System, GPNTS and GPS-based Positioning Navigation and Timing Service, Tactical Network Operations Center, or shipboard external communication systems.
• Electronic Technician background with SSDS or AEGIS experience.
• Previous experience performing corrective and preventive maintenance and micro-miniature (2M) repair to maintain combat system readiness is preferred.
• Previous experience performing maintenance tasks to include cable fabrication, repair, and installation (including fiber optic), cable removal, equipment overhaul and refurbishment, tactical electrical power connection and repair, and tactical cooling plumbing connection and repair, equipment foundation fabrication, and heavy weather preparation and recovery is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Certified as a Maintenance Person in accordance with NAVEDTRA 43241-K Naval Education and Training Command Personnel Qualification Standard for 3M or the ability to become certified within a 3-month period.
• ETA Fiber Optics Installer (FOI) Certification preferred.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret security clearance is highly desired, however candidates who are eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance will be considered. If the selected candidate does not hold an active clearance, he/she will receive a contingent offer. A start date will be established once an interim Secret clearance is granted..
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must have reliable transportation to and from various work locations on base.
• Weekend/evening shift work may be required.
• Must maintain the capability to communicate with their supervisor and/or manager when not in the office.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to frequently traverse stairs.
• Sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, crouching, and kneeling.
• Reaching, handling, using equipment, keyboards, and mobile devices.

• Lifting boxes (files and supplies) up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to wear a safety harness, climb vertical ladders, and work on elevated platforms greater than 20 feet in height.

T-Solutions is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

T-Solutions is proud to be a Veteran-Friendly Employer. T-Solutions does not discriminate against a qualified applicant because of their status as a protected veteran, or their relationship or association with a protected veteran. This includes spouses and other family members.