Navigation Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Boarhog is seeking a maritime domain Navigation Technician to join the team of engineers, technologists, and military veterans supporting the U.S. Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) on Wallops Island, Virginia. The selected candidate will configure, initialize and maintain the various Navigation systems including WSN-7, NAVSSI, GPNTS, FODMS and GEDMS. Our Navigation Tech will also work closely with systems engineers to restore advanced combat system casualties, support fleet readiness events, and large multi-system multi-platform Operational test events

The 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. The AEGIS Complex provides support to AEGIS and AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Lifetime Support Engineering, Training, In-Service Engineering, Interoperability Testing, Engineering Initiatives, and Technical Research & Development required to maintain and upgrade the AEGIS and AEGIS BMD equipped fleet in war ready condition and fully capable of executing its mission.

Required Education & Experience

• High School / GED
• No less than three (3) years experience assessing, troubleshooting, and performing corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance on navigation systems.
• PQS 301 qualification is required. 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.

Required Knowledge and Skills

The successful candidate has working level familiarity with some of the following systems :

Preferred but not required :

Work Schedule

The successful candidate must be willing and able to perform in a variety of 40 hour work-week configurations, which may be scheduled on a rotational basis, including :

Security Clearance

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 :

We thrive in a welcoming, family-like culture within a completely flat organization that takes an interest in assisting our associates with achieving their personal and professional goals and aspirations. 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 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 owner, a Navy Surface Warfare 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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