Job Title
Hardware Engineering SME III
Location
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK- NOB - VA US (Primary)
Job Description
Hardware Engineering SME 3Location: NAVSTA Norfolk, VAESN is currently looking for a Hardware Engineering SME 3 to join a highly motived and skilled team, in support of the BA-ISEA program.
Duties:- Elicit, translate, and satisfy stakeholder needs with hardware solutions.
- Identify technical specifications that provision capability requirements.
- Request, receive, and evaluate quotations from third party vendors.
- Conduct market research and create independent cost estimates.
- Generate sub-component, component, and system baselines.
- Assign and track assets with CMPRO
- Comply with policy per Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness guidance.
- Pack, distribute, accept, and handle material within NIWC Atlantic office and lab spaces.
- Initiate DD1149 requisition and invoice/shipping forms.
- Direct transportation movement requests to CONUS, OCONUS, and remote destinations.
- Produce monthly delivery reports.
- Verify accuracy of purchases with physical inspections and reviews of associated invoices.
- Coordinate with Acquisition Engineering Agent on return material authorizations.
- Collect, process, and dispose of degraded, obsolete, or unused items with Performance Based Logistics - Organic handovers, Real-Time Reutilization Asset Management distributions, Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, and peer-to-peer donations.
- Prepare weekly catalogue of scarce and deficient resources.
- Monitor cumulative pallet fees for warehouse inventory.
- Cognizance of PMW 200 master schedule.
- Perform static and dynamic burn-in tests for early failure detection (i.e., weak components, construction flaws, etc.) of newly procured devices.
- Complete software/firmware installs and upgrades.
- Execute Pre-Installation Test and Check-Out procedures for servers, switches, consoles, power distribution units, uninterruptible power supplies, and peripherals.
- Populate rugged transportable cases with laptops, printers, drives, surge suppressors, and cables prior to deployment.
- Stage and integrate subsystems, sliding rails, brackets, mounts, shelves, panels, and cable managers to open frames, cabinets, and enclosures.
- Carry out functional acceptance testing to ensure adherence before release.
- Collaborate with BA ISEA Alteration/Installation teams and end-users on the transfer of property.
- Track status and availability of commercial off-the-shelf equipment used for existing system variants.
- Recognize patch releases focused on fixing bugs and vulnerabilities.
- Implement analysis of alternatives to find and compare selections that meet specific operational demands.
- Recommend economical, high-performing, and low-risk replacement options for discontinued or unobtainable products.
- Act upon impact assessments for changes of apparatus.
Experience Required:- Minimum eight (8) years demonstrated by a notable combination of the following:
- Building, examining, and maintaining electrical equipment.
- Strong problem-solving of common and complex technological issues.
- Determining experiment conditions, instrument types, and trial methods.
- Performing precise measurements and calculations using diagnostic and calibration tools.
- Analyzing test results, evaluating resolutions, and redesigning or modifying equipment.
Education:Technical Training in software maintenance and sustainment supporting DoN maintenance, logistics, and business systems.
Desired Skills:- Foundational knowledge of networking basics:
- Concepts to connect and oversee local and wide area networks.
- Application of servers, switches, routers, data storage, copper and fiber-optic cabling, and various essential elements.
- General host and client IT administration along with disk and filesystem troubleshooting.
- Ability to configure, utilize, and monitor desktop environments (Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux distros) and server operating systems (Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise).
- Familiar with virtualization practices (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc.) used to set up and run virtual machines (VMs).
- Adept with advanced 2D and 3D modeling techniques towards detailed drawings for manufacturing ready-to-build parts that combine into a higher assembly.
Clearance: Secret
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