Job Details
Amentum
Engineering Technician II
Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World
Engineering Technician II
Amentum is a leading provider of support for essential missions of the U.S. Government, its allied partners and international organizations. Amentum’s portfolio includes capabilities in critical facility infrastructure, aviation, logistics, training, meteorological data collection platforms, range operations and national security solutions, to support complex missions for customers around the world.
Amentum, in support of the National Weather Service's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) located at Stennis Space Center (SSC) Mississippi, is currently seeking an Engineering Technician II. NDBC provides quality observations in the marine environment to support the understanding of and predictions to changes in weather, climate, oceans, and coasts. NDBC designs, engineers, fabricates/integrates, tests, deploys, maintains/repairs 4 worldwide buoy systems: 106 Weather Buoy Stations, 43 Coastal Observation (C-MAN) stations, 55 Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Array (TAO) systems, and 39 Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) stations. Program scope also includes data analysis/storage/dissemination (via website/other means) of related weather and environmental data from these systems (25%) and other sources (75%) of in-situ weather data, Logistics, Information Technology/Data Administration, and Programming.
Responsibilities:
Tests, troubleshoots, calibrates, and repairs electronic and scientific equipment used and or developed by the NDBC Engineering Lab to support Marine and Land Based Weather Buoys and Stations.
Assists in the design, construction, and modification of electronic, scientific devices, and weather instrumentation, designs and installs circuitry, repairs defective or failed hardware.
Applies principles and theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, engineering mathematics, electronic and electrical testing, and physics.
Works under direction and collaboration of engineering staff and senor technicians.
Required Qualifications:
1 year experience in maintenance, repair, test and modification of marine electrical and electronics systems.
Demonstrated ability in operating, maintaining, and calibrating, microprocessor based data acquisition systems, test sets, sensors, laboratory bench equipment and precision calibration electro-mechanical instruments.
Education Requirements:
AS/AAS in Electronics, Instrumentation or Engineering Technology.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.