Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Technician III Jobs

Land Mobile Radio Technician

Abacus Technology is seeking a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Technician to provide technical support of communications instrumentation for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold AFB. This is a full-time, represented position. Responsibilities include managing all Trunked LMR (TLMR) and LMR assets in accordance with Air Force guidelines and regulations, managing and tracking issuance and turn-in of TLMR/LMR equipment, ensuring users complete all required documentation prior to issuance of TLMR/LMR equipment, providing a receipt to customers for equipment turned in for repair, utilizing priority shipping for parts as necessary to meet restoral times, coordinating the configuration and operation of the TLMR/LMR system with the Installation Spectrum Manager and Government COR, operating and configuring the TMLR system, recommending and making additions, deletions, and modifications to the TLMR infrastructure and LMR equipment as necessary to meet the operational requirements of AEDC customers, removing and installing mobile radios, repeaters, base stations, antennas, and remotes according to the manufacturer's equipment safety and grounding requirements, providing customer service and administrative support for the TLMR and LMR functional areas, processing and coordinating equipment repairs, process requirements, processing and coordinating the DD Form 1367, Commercial Communication Work Order, with inventory management, safeguarding and limiting access of LMR Network Management applications to authorized personnel only, generating, safeguarding, and implementing encryption for all LMRs that utilize LMR Core infrastructure, inhibiting all lost or stolen assets from RF connection to LMR infrastructure equipment, evaluating communications hardware and software and troubleshooting LAN/MAN/WAN and other network-related problems, providing technical expertise for performance and configuration of networks, performing general LAN/MAN/WAN administration, providing technical leadership in the integration and test of complex large-scale computer integrated networks, scheduling conversions and cut overs, coordinating with all affected users and sites, analyzing network characteristics and recommending procurement, removals, and modifications to network components, designing and optimizing network topologies and site configurations, planning installations, transition and cut overs of network components and capabilities, coordinating requirements with users and suppliers, developing efficient, effective solutions and methods of information transfer to meet customer needs by applying knowledge in one or more of the following disciplines: fiber optic technologies, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), optical technologies (i.e., LMR, cellular/personal communication service voice and data, LAN/WAN) architectures, including wireless networks and all associated protocols, meeting with Government personnel and contractor personnel to formulate and review delivery order plans and deliverable items, maintaining the non-cable plant and non-switching systems (i.e., microwave radios, UPS equipment, multiplexers, antennas, LAN/CAN/MAN/WAN equipment, VTC equipment, phones, land mobile radios (LMR) Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems (ATCALS) and Meteorological and Navigational Aid (METNAV)).

Qualifications include 3+ years experience supporting technical instrumentation, an Associate's degree or technical diploma in electronics, Security+ CE certification, formal training or experience with the following: P25 digital trunking; Motorola brand LMR equipment; radio frequency principles; and antenna theory and components, interfacing with a wide variety of other trades including electricians and telephone technicians, utilizing a wide variety of instruments, tools, and equipment necessary to perform assigned duties, analyzing and understanding instruments and circuits, operating electronics tools associated with the trade, reading and working from blueprints, using good judgment and common sense when performing job functions, following written and verbal instructions in English, working in confined spaces, lifting and carrying up to 30lbs, reaching above shoulders, using fingers and hands, distinguishing colors, proficient in MS Office, holding a valid driver's license, being a US citizen, holding a current Secret clearance, and being subject to a U.S. government security investigation and meeting eligibility requirements for access to classified information. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.