Satellite Communications Technician (SOFA)

Job Title: Satellite Communications Technician (SOFA)
Location: Rota, Spain

Security Clearance:  Active, in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance (Interim Secret Clearance is acceptable)

Requisition Type: Funded

Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements, US Citizenship is required.

The Satellite Communications Technician position shall provide technical support for the operation and maintenance of a teleport site.

• All on-site non-emergency related support is performed during normal business hours with labor scheduled at the discretion of GTACSII to optimize use of its resources
• Be a satellite communications technician or greater skill set
• Provide normal business hours support (Monday-Friday) and shall provide standby emergency support on weekends and nights. Upon notification (over the phone) from program office or the operations floor flight director, the contractor shall respond within 2 hours
• Interface with the local organizations or Program Office visitors when requested by the Program Office
• Provide physical access and escort local organizations or Program Office site visitors when notified by the Program Office of the visit
• Contact the 24-hour contact number (to program office/sustainment office) to coordinate maintenance times and/or emergency maintenance actions.
• Perform periodic preventative maintenance inspections (PMIs), COMSEC, and organizational level hardware maintenance (test, removal, replacement) support that also includes periodic local on-site monitoring of alarms, general housekeeping, and equipment inspection.
• GT system PMIs shall be performed as recommend in operations and maintenance manual (O&M manual). The program office shall provide updated manuals as required.
• Provide PMI summary and reports as requested by the Program office within 10 business days of the request.
• Perform level 1 troubleshooting when guided (over the phone or in person) by qualified depot level personnel (or program office engineer), the on-site personnel shall provide limited depot level maintenance actions (described below) within their qualifications and resources:
• Spares and special tooling will be provided by the program office. Critical spares housed on site.
• Provide basic periodic generator maintenance and inspection per OEM manual recommendations
• Provide maintain site mission critical HVAC systems located on the shelter, antenna hub, and servo control unit (SCU) per O&M manual.
• On-site personnel shall be qualified to operate a man-lift as required for certain PMIs. The program office shall provide (or meet the cost of) special rental equipment.
• On-site personnel shall perform regular inspection, management and coordinate with local PMEL for calibration support.
• On-site personnel support includes shipping support and providing necessary part and shipping information and turning in parts/equipment to the transportation management office (TMO). The Program office will be responsible for replenishment of all COTS items.
• On-site personnel shall not use any program office assets for other than intended purposes without coordination and approval from the program Office.
• Travel CONUS/OCONUS to support missions up to 10%.

• Must possess seven (7) years operational experience in communications software, hardware or networks.
• Specific experience required includes protocol analysis, knowledge of OSI protocol (TCP/IP, X.25.X 400, and X.500).
• Experience with ATM, frame, relay h bridges, routers, gateways, FDDI, and UNIX operating systems is required.

• CNE or ECNE experience is desired, as well as supervising the operation and maintenance of communication network systems, mainframe, mini or client/server based.

• Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering preferred OR an Associates degree plus 7 years of recent specialized experience OR 11 total years of total specialized experience.

Trace Systems Inc. was founded to support and defend our nation's security interests at home and abroad–– whenever and wherever. We provide enterprise IT, engineering, full life-cycle communications, cybersecurity, cloud and virtualization services and solutions to the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies.  

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