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Lead Engineering Technician (Machinery Control Systems)

Philadelphia, PA

WILLCOR Inc
Business Management Consulting • 11 - 50 employees

Full-time

Posted 9 days ago


Job description

Job Title: Lead Engineering Technician (Machinery Control Systems)
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Required Clearance: Secret
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Position Summary:
Senior hands-on machinery control systems technician responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, installing, testing, and upgrading shipboard control-system hardware and software. The role requires extensive Navy/Coast Guard experience, strong electrical troubleshooting skills, machinery-control computer experience, technical leadership, and significant shipyard/waterfront experience.
Required Experience:
  • 15 years of professional or military experience as an engineering technician.
  • 10 years troubleshooting electrical failures using schematics and a digital multimeter, including:
  • Signal tracing and fault isolation
  • Navy/Coast Guard shipboard or land-based equipment
  • Machinery control system installation and operational testing
  • Written troubleshooting/test findings
  • 10 years working with machinery control system computers, including: Reformatting/imaging hard drives
  • Installing peripheral equipment, loading software, troubleshooting computer hardware and software.
  • 5 years as a lead engineering technician supporting control-system installations or upgrades.
  • 3 years supporting machinery control systems on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers (CVN-68 through CVN-77).
  • 3 years as a waterfront representative at civilian or military shipyards.

Responsibilities:
  • Troubleshoot and repair shipboard electrical/electronic equipment, wiring, connectors, terminal boxes, sensors, switches, and control-system components.
  • Perform shipboard software loads on Windows/Linux computers, PLC processors/cards, and firmware.
  • Lead installation and checkout crews during control-system installations and upgrades.
  • Conduct machinery control system testing during shipboard test evolutions.
  • Support fabrication and assembly of control panels and consoles.
  • Maintain test-equipment, calibration, failed-asset, purchasing, and test-procedure tracking.
  • Provide hands-on training to ship's force and Regional Maintenance Center personnel.
  • Perform cable routing, wire splicing, rack installation/removal, connector pinouts, and cable terminations.
Preferred:
A particularly valuable candidate is someone with 15+ years as a technician plus Nimitz-class (CVN-68–77) machinery control system experience. The packet says those candidates should be escalated immediately.

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Industry

Business management consulting

Company size

11 - 50 Employees

Headquarters location

College Park, MD, US

Year founded

2002