Hybrid Principal/Senior Principal Network and Communications Field Service Engineer

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About the role

  • Field Service Engineer with Northrop Grumman for MQ-4C Triton systems. Responsibilities include operations support in critical military environments requiring extensive technical expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Provide real time support for flight operations and maintenance, addressing any issues related to communications and networking to include fault isolation, remediation, and resolution.
  • Perform field integration, troubleshooting, and repair of communications and data link systems in military flight test environment.
  • Adhere to checklists and procedures to ensure repeated success and provide redlines to procedures when necessary.
  • Communicate complex technical issues to local support, Degrader Action Cell, Main Operation Bases, and Responsible Engineers.
  • Support and lead air crew engagement for proper techniques in solving complex analysis of technical problems that arise during operations.
  • Assist with trend analysis as needed for Responsible Engineers.
  • Perform/support review and analysis of supplier design data and definition of functional test requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related engineering experience.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain DoD 8140 approved IAT Level II (or higher) compliant certification. Examples include: Security+CE, CCNP, and CISSP.
  • Competence in Linux, troubleshooting, engineering documents, tools and equipment
  • Familiarity with comms/networking operations
  • Ability to support assignment at location (RAAF Base Edinburgh in Australia) for minimum of 18 months
  • Ability to pass a new hire physical if determined necessary by Company, based on OCONUS location.
  • Active DoD Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain SCI access.
  • Ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance. This SAP must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Job title

Principal/Senior Principal Network and Communications Field Service Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$85,600 - $128,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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