Sustainment & Maintenance Specialist

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Sustainment & Maintenance Specialist

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

We are seeking a Sustainment & Maintenance Specialist to support the MIT LL team.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: Enable critically important communications over vast distances by being the team member to innovate and overcome technical challenges as we spearhead new solutions through advanced prototyping.
• Collaborative Environment: Come join a team of enthusiastic engineers engaged in creating the next generation of cutting-edge laser communication systems technology.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense and/or defense.

You will join a Strategic Satcom team that is involved in a synergistic combination of research, proof-of-concept test beds, and system engineering/application efforts focused on the goals of enhancing the capacity, the robustness to interference, and the flexibility of future generations of communications satellites, as well as line-of-sight radio communications systems. Current research is concentrating on the design and performance of advanced waveforms, the construction of flexible, adaptive wideband frequency plans, robust acquisition and tracking techniques, dynamic resource-allocation protocols, and advanced networking strategies. Promising research results are verified in hardware/software proof-of-concept implementations that provide quantitative performance data as well as complexity information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executing terminal operations
• Loading cryptographic keys
• Providing maintenance on a variety of systems
• Removing and replacing failed systems and subsystems
• Conducting system anomaly troubleshooting and resolution

Work Environment:

• Location: On-site - Schriever SFB
• Travel Requirements: Minimal (<20%)
• Working Hours: Standard

Required Qualifications:

• Active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance is required to be considered for this position
• Familiarization with test equipment, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, power meter, Fireberd, fiber optics
• Preventative Maintenance Inspections (PMIs)
• UNIX Operating System
• Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment
• 5 years of Operations and maintenance in military SATCOM environments

Desired Qualifications:

• SATCOM Terminal Operator
• Cryptographic Equipment Operations
• Possess strong oral and written communications skills
• 10 years of Operations and maintenance in military SATCOM environments
• MILSTAR/AEHF
• EPS

Basic Compensation:
For Colorado only, the salary range is approximately $​117,600 - $176,400 USD annually. The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

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KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.