Field Technician Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Engineering
Field/Service Technician, Electronics Technician, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic
Location: Pocasset
Location:
Pocasset, MA, Massachusetts, United States
Required Travel: 26 - 50%
Employment Type:
Full Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range:$44,182.00-$63,117.00
Security Clearance:
Secret
Level of
Experience:
Mid
This opportunity resides with Uncrewed Systems (UxS), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. Uncrewed Systems comprises unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and autonomy software.
HII creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research and commercial applications. Serving customers in more than 30 countries, HII provides design, autonomy, manufacturing, testing, operations and sustainment of unmanned systems, including unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
Leadership at HII - Mission TechnologiesHII's Leadership Capability Framework defines the standard of excellence expected of all leaders across Mission Technologies. Leaders are accountable for modeling these capabilities and building them within their teams:
- Know & Grow Your People - Develop talent, empower teams, and build an inclusive environment.
- Build Relationships - Strengthen trust, collaboration, and cross-functional partnerships.
- Take Ownership - Drive accountability, execution excellence, and results.
- Customer First - Anticipate mission needs and deliver value to our partners.
- Shape the Future - Inspire innovation and align work with strategic priorities.
- Act with Urgency - Make informed decisions and move with purpose.
HII Unmanned Systems is seeking an experienced Field Technician to come join our team! HII Unmanned Systems creates advanced unmanned solutions for defense, marine research and commercial applications. Serving customers in more than 30 countries, HII provides design, autonomy, manufacturing, testing, operations and sustainment of unmanned systems, including unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vessels (USVs). As our new Field Technician 2 your responsibilities and duties will be as follows.
Responsibilities- Provides testing per specific test procedures by using measuring instruments and computer test programs for vehicle systems or products.
- Provides customer support and training for new and existing customers both in house and in the field.
- Supports the production and manufacturing functions.
- Supports the production and assembly of test boards.
- Maintains vehicle repairs, upgrades and execution of test procedures in new and existing vehicles.
- Have routine computer skills (directory structure, hyperterm, applications).
- Performs pre-mission tasks (vehicle mission programming, vehicle checkout). Be able to recognize when something is out of spec.
- Performs post mission data download and analysis
- Performs level "one" troubleshooting; visual inspection, use of DVM, basic schematic reading.
- Leads normal vehicle systems field operations for testing. Design mission to perform needed tasks and get best information out of it. Have a good grasp on what to do if things do NOT go right.
- Documents test results with appropriate information in a complete manner and communicate to all required.
- Reads and interprets specific test procedures to properly perform and document test results.
- Performs all job responsibilities in support of Product Quality Standards.
- Communicates all design problems and "bugs" to the correct areas within the organization.
- Must be able to work in the field unsupervised.
- Other duties as assigned
Installs, operates, maintains, repairs and modifies equipment. Performs a variety of maintenance and technical support on products such as equipment, integrated systems and subsystems, and software at customer and/or field locations. Analyzes and evaluates products and related performance. Troubleshoots and diagnoses malfunctions to eliminate problem in minimum time. Installs, upgrades and removes products ensuring coordinative engineering field change. Maintains effective customer communications, relations, and provides onsite training.
Whatwe are looking for.
- Associates Degree or other 2 year technical degree in related discipline and 1 year of related experience; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 3 years related experience.
- Travel:
Local sea/boat testing at 25-40%, customer-site training is as required at 1-2 weeks per trip, possibility of some extensive travel. - Must be able to obtain and maintain a goverment clearance #LI-MH1
- Experience…
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