Total 4 job vacancies by Army National Guard Units

Supervises employees performing ATC electronic equipment repair and maintenance work. Assigns, directs and reviews subordinates' work, solves technical and administrative problems, and explains work and administrative requirements. Initiates requests to fill vacancies; recommends selections, reassignment, awards or other status changes for employees; approves ordinary sick and annual leave; and resolves informal complaints. Sets performance standards and prepares formal performance evaluations. Holds corrective interviews, taking disciplinary action as necessary. Initiates or participates in review and improvement of work methods, organizational features and position structure for economy and efficiency. Implements personnel, EEO and other programs, maintains administrative records and prepares required reports.

Develops and implements a training program for subordinate electronics technicians in accordance with Army Regulations (AR) and Training Circulars (TC). Provides classroom and hands-on training on assigned equipment to include research and preparation of training materials, preparation of a course lesson plan, establishing pass/fail criteria, and development of course exams. Attends and successfully completes formal training courses and on-the-job training programs. Maintains training records. Ensures electronics technicians are well trained, properly certified, and knowledgeable and proficient to comply with equipment certification responsibilities. Ensures electronics technicians are fully trained in all aspects of job-related safety, equipment safety, personal safety and security directives.

Interfaces with and provides expert technical advice and guidance to the Airfield Manager, installation leadership, higher headquarters, and associated government agencies on complex ATC equipment maintenance and support issues. Works closely with the Airfield Manager, Air Traffic Control Facility Chief, Department of the Army Representative (DAR), and other key installation personnel to ensure mission requirements are met with no adverse impact. Prepares, plans, support agreements, staff summary sheets, written reports and recommendations to leadership concerning equipment issues, problems, base support, and other limiting factors. Develops and publishes organizational level operating instructions as appropriate to assign responsibilities and delineate requirements for equipment operation, accountability, and maintenance. Directs and implements changes to maintenance practices and policies on the basis of sound management practices and guidance from governing directives. Participates in special projects and initiatives and performs special assignments. Provides input to the Airfield Manager regarding ATC equipment maintenance manpower and funding requirements for the annual Program Memorandum Objective (POM) process.

Serves as a senior electronics technician responsible for maintaining a highly-complex Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower used for safely guiding both civilian and military aircraft in the vicinity of the airport. Incumbent exercises judgment in the selection, interpretation and application of a wide range of most applicable established guidelines and methods for typical situations, and recognizes when guidelines and methods prescribed are not sufficient and modifies concepts, practices, and precedents to derive innovative approaches and procedures to meet specific atypical situations caused by compressed timeframes, electromagnetic interference or variances in electronic circuitry. Incumbent monitors individuals, small work groups or teams on site, and is responsible for oversight, maintenance, certification and documentation of assigned ATC and Navigational Aid systems and facilities in the National Airspace System (NAS). Major, controversial problems are discussed with the ATC Facility Chief and Airfield Manager for the purpose of reaching unanimity of opinions and objectives. Decisions, recommendations, maintenance certifications and documentation of a punitive nature are conducted by the employee and are normally accepted as technically correct and binding on the agency. Incumbent is routinely required to formulate point papers, status reports and other correspondence in an effort to assist contract manager with understanding and accepting findings and recommendations related to the field of expertise.

Participates in, and conducts site surveys to determine the best location of new or relocated ATC facilities. Aids in the planning and design, or modifies existing electronic designs for the installation or modification of ATC facilities. Acts as local project manager for new equipment installation or equipment/facility upgrade to include maintenance of a prescribed project folder, coordination of project support requirements, and establishment of a new equipment stock list, preventive maintenance program, and training package.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Serves as project leader responsible for developing, assigning, and coordinating duties and projects for systems administrators. The project members are specifically assigned to one or more of the multiple system platforms located throughout the state. Develops, modifies, and tests overall system backup and recovery strategies for all systems. Serves as the technical expert and focal point for installation, configuration and testing of hardware and software associated with multiple operating systems and computer platforms. Provides technical assistance and analysis to other IT personnel involved in system design, programming, database design, and adapting commercially available software. Determines equipment requirements, communications, and interfaces with other systems. Evaluates machine usage based on current usage patterns and develops plans for the acquisition of hardware and software needed to support future IT requirements.

Serves as the senior systems administrator responsible for planning, coordinating, modifying, implementing, and troubleshooting to support customer needs. Work pertains to the administration of all systems including ensuring the efficient integration between systems as well as compatibility with local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. Analyzes, evaluates, and recommends hardware/software changes to various computer systems. Considers factors such as compatibility with standard systems, conversion or implementation costs, and impact on existing equipment. Develops guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), bulletins and flyers concerning the operation/use of C4 systems, services, and activities. Provides interpretations of higher authority regulations and guidance concerning IT system activities/services and coordinates with internal departments and external agencies concerning the resolution of problem areas encountered. Advises the information management staff on issues pertaining to operating systems and hardware status.

Plans and schedules the installation of new or modified hardware, operating systems, and software applications. Directs testing of vendor-provided software. Develops, documents, coordinates, updates and validates the state Continuity of Operation Plan (COOP) procedures for system disaster recovery. Implements operating system releases and maintains the operational status of systems. Performs security management in accordance with NGB regulations and state policies. Develops and analyzes local policies regarding system access, network rights, and physical access to systems and equipment. Develops policy for all systems storage requirements throughout the state. Designs and modifies the storage structure and correlation between systems. Modifies system parameters on multiple operating systems, integrating the use of Storage Area Networks (SAN), to achieve maximum system efficiency. Analyzes system operations to identify bottlenecks and takes action to resolve problems and ensure optimal performance and consistency.

Troubleshoots problems and implements changes on multiple computer platforms. Diagnose system failures to isolate source of problems between equipment, system software, and application programs. When problems are found, modifies code, devises fixes, documents problems and advises responsible vendor or other outside party. Interacts with peers and vendors to resolve hardware and software problems and reports unresolved problems to the appropriate party. Coordinates with specialists and managers at higher levels to obtain information for interfacing with systems at those levels and to facilitate the acquisition and exchange of information technology. Serves as the organization authoritative expert at meetings and seminars designed to arrive at solutions for mutual systems administration problems.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Serves as project leader responsible for developing, assigning, and coordinating duties and projects for systems administrators. The project members are specifically assigned to one or more of the multiple system platforms located throughout the state. Develops, modifies, and tests overall system backup and recovery strategies for all systems. Serves as the technical expert and focal point for installation, configuration and testing of hardware and software associated with multiple operating systems and computer platforms. Provides technical assistance and analysis to other IT personnel involved in system design, programming, database design, and adapting commercially available software. Determines equipment requirements, communications, and interfaces with other systems. Evaluates machine usage based on current usage patterns and develops plans for the acquisition of hardware and software needed to support future IT requirements.

Serves as the senior systems administrator responsible for planning, coordinating, modifying, implementing, and troubleshooting to support customer needs. Work pertains to the administration of all systems including ensuring the efficient integration between systems as well as compatibility with local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. Analyzes, evaluates, and recommends hardware/software changes to various computer systems. Considers factors such as compatibility with standard systems, conversion or implementation costs, and impact on existing equipment. Develops guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), bulletins and flyers concerning the operation/use of C4 systems, services, and activities. Provides interpretations of higher authority regulations and guidance concerning IT system activities/services and coordinates with internal departments and external agencies concerning the resolution of problem areas encountered. Advises the information management staff on issues pertaining to operating systems and hardware status.

Plans and schedules the installation of new or modified hardware, operating systems, and software applications. Directs testing of vendor-provided software. Develops, documents, coordinates, updates and validates the state Continuity of Operation Plan (COOP) procedures for system disaster recovery. Implements operating system releases and maintains the operational status of systems. Performs security management in accordance with NGB regulations and state policies. Develops and analyzes local policies regarding system access, network rights, and physical access to systems and equipment. Develops policy for all systems storage requirements throughout the state. Designs and modifies the storage structure and correlation between systems. Modifies system parameters on multiple operating systems, integrating the use of Storage Area Networks (SAN), to achieve maximum system efficiency. Analyzes system operations to identify bottlenecks and takes action to resolve problems and ensure optimal performance and consistency.

Troubleshoots problems and implements changes on multiple computer platforms. Diagnose system failures to isolate source of problems between equipment, system software, and application programs. When problems are found, modifies code, devises fixes, documents problems and advises responsible vendor or other outside party. Interacts with peers and vendors to resolve hardware and software problems and reports unresolved problems to the appropriate party. Coordinates with specialists and managers at higher levels to obtain information for interfacing with systems at those levels and to facilitate the acquisition and exchange of information technology. Serves as the organization authoritative expert at meetings and seminars designed to arrive at solutions for mutual systems administration problems.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Performs a variety of network device configuration and connectivity tasks. Executes procedures and coordinates corrective action to optimize network performance. Installs, configures and monitors tested and evaluated software packages that provide performance measurements of the WAN/LAN. Implements the standard configuration software loads for all network devices. Utilizes benchmarks and performance measurement and evaluation data to manage network servers and data communication devices to support normal and surge workload. Works with technical support personnel in resolving critical problems. Uses remote management software tools to maintain and update configuration, protocol and user/system files. Documents and tracks change to configuration, protocol and user/system files. Executes appropriate action to ensure backup processes are completed.

Evaluates the performance of network devices such as servers, workstations, and peripheral devices, and remote access systems. Coordinates the development and implementation of configuration management plans for complex LANs and WANs with supported elements to include headquarters staff elements, tenant activities, state government, regional operating activities and national agencies. Implements plans and procedures for remote installation of applications and upgrades using state of the art software distribution methods. Monitors distribution of applications and upgrades ensuring compliance with regulations and copyright laws.

Implements procedures to ensure accurate records of authorized users of distributed software are maintained. Implements the standard operating procedures for all devices on the network. Reviews and evaluates proposed software. Provides input to briefings and presentations on the complexities of the installation networks. These briefings provide the basis for long-range decision planning relating to C4 network project management. Analyzes equipment and software reliability and utilization reports to identify and define problem areas and to establish end-to-end systems performance levels.

Performs other duties as assigned.