Course Facilitator (ACNT)

About the role

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a mission‑driven, journeyman engineer able to obtain a Secret Clearance to join the AMERICAN SYSTEMS Simulations and Systems team as an AEGIS Computer Network Technician Course Facilitator in Dahlgren, VA. The candidate will support the CSCS Training Support Program.

Responsibilities

• Develops, organizes and conducts training and educational programs for Fleet sailors in support of the Aegis Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
• Conducts traditional classroom instruction and supports tactical lab training.
• Serves as a Journeyman Instructor to train CG/DDG sailors in preventive and corrective maintenance for the UYQ‑70 Local Area Network (LAN), its interface and associated equipment.
• Trains others in the alignment, adjustment, configuration, removal, replacement of the lowest replaceable unit, including diagnostic testing and system validation of the UYQ‑70 LAN and all associated equipment.
• Works with equipment including ADS and CND UYQ‑70 Consoles, X‑STAB monitors, Bridge Routers to interface other LANs, Fiber Optic Data Distribution and ETHERNET interfaces and their associated File Servers and Application Processors, HP‑UX and HP‑RT.
• Provides subject‑matter expertise for curriculum development for ATRC courses supporting present and future development of the AEGIS MK‑99 AEGIS Fire Control System, MK84 400 Hz Power Distribution System, and Ballistic Missile Defense Technician courses.
• Delivers dynamic teaching, training, and assessment requiring advanced knowledge of U.S. Navy Aegis Combat Systems capabilities and limitations to the officer level.
• Reviews and analyzes U.S. Navy Aegis Combat System engineering capabilities and limitations and U.S. Navy operational and tactical doctrine, integrating and conceptualizing doctrine execution to optimize ship combat systems application in dynamic operational/tactical environments.
• Conducts dynamic assessment of sailors’ compliance with approved maintenance and operational procedures, providing formal performance appraisal with recommendations for improvement and methods to maintain technical and tactical proficiency.
• Observes and assesses contemporaries during Practice and Certification, teaching per NAVEDTRA 135 requirements.
• Prepares, reviews, and customizes curriculum lesson plans and instructor guides for traditional classroom teaching.
• Supports course reviews and curriculum updates; conducts training gap analysis and provides formal feedback and recommendations for course improvement.
• Documents training conducted with specifics of individual areas/watch stations and generates formal assessment reports measuring success.
• Develops, tests, maintains, and delivers moderately complex Aegis training programs and related materials in support of ATRC training objectives.
• Establishes and reviews course content and objectives; conducts training sessions and develops criteria for evaluating training effectiveness.
• Maintains records of training activities, participant progress, and program effectiveness.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work/military experience.
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• At least three (3) years of experience:
  • With the required system as either a maintenance technician supervisor or operator supervisor, responsible for teaching the applicable system or function task to others in a journeyman‑level training environment.
  • Of the three years, one (1) year of experience as an instructor in a Navy Training Environment, including curriculum maintenance, writing learning objectives, preparing test items, evaluating instructional materials and results of instruction, and counseling students on academic learning problems.

Benefits

• Sign‑on bonus: $2,500
• Comprehensive benefits program including healthcare, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.

Pay

Salary range: USD $70,000.00/Yr. – USD $85,000/Yr. (actual compensation determined based on factors permitted by law). AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for applicants and employee‑owners.