Engineering Technician

About the role

Bowhead seeks an Engineering Technician to join our team in supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division. The Engineering Technician performs assignments that are not completely standardized or prescribed, selects or adapts standard procedures or equipment, using fully applicable precedents, receives initial instructions, equipment requirements, and advice from supervisor or engineer as needed, performs recurring work independently. Work is reviewed for technical adequacy or conformity with instructions.

Responsibilities

• Constructing components, subunits, or simple models or adapts standard equipment; may troubleshoot and correct malfunctions
• Following specific layout and scientific diagrams to construct and package simple devices and subunits of equipment
• Conducting various tests or experiments which may require minor modifications in test setups or procedures as well as subjective judgments in measurement, selecting, preparing, and operating standard test equipment and records test data
• Extracting and compiling a variety of engineering data from field notes, manuals, lab reports, etc., processing data, identifying errors or inconsistencies, selecting methods of data presentation
• Assisting in design modification by compiling data related to design, specifications, and materials that are pertinent to specific items of equipment or component parts; developing information concerning previous operational failures and modifications, and using judgment and initiative to recognize inconsistencies or gaps in data and seek sources to clarify information
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electronics with a minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years of relevant experience
• Intermediate to advanced level skills in Microsoft Office software suite – Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and outside contacts
• Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment with the ability to work alone or as part of a team

Pay

• This is a SCA position and the targeted hourly rate is $46.26 hourly

Schedule

• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

Security clearance

• Must be able to obtain a clearance at a Secret level, however candidates with an active Secret level clearance are highly encouraged to apply
• US Citizenship is a requirement for Secret clearance at this location