Simulator Technician III

Overview

Simulator Technician III – W-TRS Home station Instrumentation Training Systems (HITS) Fort Riley, Kansas CBA

Role: Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness.

Job Summary

Senior - Leads simulation maintenance activities including resourcing and training other simulator technicians. Performs scheduled, preventive, and corrective maintenance on the Homestation Instrumentation Training Systems (HITS) simulation equipment following technical manuals, preventive maintenance checklists, or industry best practices when no checklist is available.

Responsibilities

• Informs the site lead of the maintenance timelines for both staffed and unstaffed sites, including notifying when personnel need to travel for maintenance purposes or to support increased demand.
• Ensures maintenance tasks do not conflict with training, exercises, and testing.
• Records all maintenance activities in real-time in InSITE.
• Adheres to warranty terms for maintained items, tracking them by part number, serial number, and location.
• Sets up and tests simulation equipment to confirm they work as expected, including interoperability and operation verification.
• Maintains hardware baselines, reverting to previous versions if updates fail.
• Analyzes maintenance trends, tracks component consumption, manages obsolescence, implements risk management strategies, and conducts failure analysis to minimize risks and improve system reliability.
• Responsible for configuration management of all maintenance on simulation devices.
• Installs modifications or upgrade kits as per manufacturer's instructions.
• May serve as a lead onsite.
• Responsible for installing and maintaining software and hardware installs and managing patches and security compliance for installed applications and operating systems.

Qualifications

• Degree(s)/Years Of Experience (10+BA/BS or 5+MA/MS) or (14+AA/No Degree).
• Certification(s): Basic Electronic Technical Certificate.
• Clearance: NACI Background Check.
• Required Experience:
• Leading simulation maintenance activities including resourcing and training other simulator technicians.
• Performing scheduled, preventive, and corrective maintenance on Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Systems (TADSS) equipment following technical manuals, preventive maintenance checklists, or industry best practices when no checklist is available.
• Informing the site lead of the maintenance timelines for both staffed and unstaffed sites, including notifying when personnel need to travel for maintenance purposes or to support increased demand.
• Ensuring maintenance tasks do not conflict with training, exercises, and testing.
• Recording all maintenance activities in real-time in the Management Information System (MIS).
• Adhering to warranty terms for maintained items, tracking them by part number, serial number, and location.
• Sets up and tests simulation equipment to confirm they work as expected, including interoperability and operation verification.
• Maintaining hardware baselines, reverting to previous versions if updates fail.
• Analyzing maintenance trends, tracking component consumption, managing obsolescence, implementing risk management strategies, and conducting failure analysis to minimize risks and improve system reliability.
• Being responsible for configuration management of all maintenance on simulation devices.
• Installing modifications or upgrading kits as per manufacturer's instructions.
• Serving as a lead onsite.
• Installing and maintaining software and hardware installs and managing patches and security compliance for installed applications and operating systems.