General Technician II​/Instrumentation Technician III; F

Systems Application & Technologies Inc

Systems Application & Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Position Type
:
Full‑Time, Non‑Exempt

Work Location
: NAS Patuxent River, MD

Pay Info
: $31/hr - $35/hr plus $4.93 (Health & Wellness benefit)

Systems Application & Technologies, Inc. (SA‑TECH) is a progressive and well‑established Department of Defense (DoD) contractor specializing in range operations and maintenance (O&M), weapons testing, facilities management, aerial, ground and seaborne targets O&M, technical, logistics and other engineering support, systems integration, electronics and communications maintenance services, and a growing cybersecurity business. SA‑TECH operates a dozen active test and training ranges for the Army, Air Force and Navy, and has a 36‑year heritage of supporting complex DoD programs.

At the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at NAS Patuxent River, MD, SA‑TECH supports the Aircraft Instrumentation Division (AID) of the Prototyping, Experimentation, and Instrumentation (PIE) Department and is looking to hire a General Technician II / Instrumentation Technician III to support the F‑35 with fabrication, installation and operational support of instrumentation systems and wiring harnesses on aircraft and test articles.

As a Technician on staff supporting F‑35, you will perform general engineering support functions for wiring, sheet metal, electronics, drafting, instrumentation, structures, or machining disciplines. You will assist Senior Engineering Techs and Engineers on projects by gathering materials and equipment from source locations and delivering them to work/test locations, then returning items to proper locations. The technician must demonstrate practical application of tools and techniques, receive technical guidance from a supervisor or higher‑level technicians, and have work reviewed for proper technique and compliance.

You may also provide visitor control support as needed. You will assist instrumentation operations engineers by maintaining, installing, calibrating, testing and troubleshooting sophisticated instrumentation systems, and support on‑aircraft ground testing and pre‑flight, post‑flight, and test flight support (including loading and removing data cartridges and delivering them to data processing). You may also work in the Instrumentation Lab troubleshooting, installing, and checking out instrumentation systems.

• Assemble or install equipment or parts requiring simple wiring, soldering, or connecting.
• Perform simple or routine tasks or tests such as tensile or hardness tests, operating and adjusting simple test equipment, recording test data.
• Gather and maintain specified records of engineering data such as tests, drawings, etc.
• Conduct computations by substituting numbers in specified formulas, plotting data and drawing simple curves and graphs.

• Preflight, post flight F‑35 platform, as well as flight test pods and ground support equipment (test carts, DRODI vans).
• Wire various instrumentation packages.
• Wire various platforms; follow VX‑23 and AID processes and procedures.
• Aid instrumentation operations engineers by maintaining, installing, calibrating, testing and troubleshooting F‑35 instrumentation systems.
• Support on‑aircraft ground testing.
• Perform instrumentation pre‑flights, post‑flights and test flight support (including loading and removing data cartridges and delivering them to data processing).
• Some testing may be done at other test facilities and carriers, so some travel is required.
• Perform work in the Instrumentation Lab (troubleshooting, installing and checking out instrumentation systems).
• Conform to AVMI and LM FOD and tool control policies and all facets of security (physical, Automated Information System (AIS), document control, Communications Security (COMSEC), Operations Security (OPSEC), and security education requirements) as well as instrumentation quality…