Engineering Technician III

Job Description

Job Description

Engineering Technician III provides intermediate-level technical, production-control, logistics, and industrial-operations support. The position performs recurring assignments independently, applies established precedents, and selects or adapts standard procedures and equipment when work is not completely prescribed.

Responsibilities may include production planning support, hardware progressing, work-order scheduling, material and component research, repair-kit development, technical drawing-package support, data analysis, equipment-status tracking, and coordination of hardware movement through Government shops. The technician may also construct components or subunits, adapt standard equipment, troubleshoot malfunctions, and perform authorized corrective actions.

The Engineering Technician III receives initial task direction and consults a supervisor, engineer, or other technical authority when unfamiliar conditions exceed established guidance. Completed work is reviewed for technical adequacy, accuracy, and conformity with applicable instructions.

A sample of duties and responsibilities for this job include but are not limited to:

• Supporting and Executing on the Production Planning and Workload Coordination
• Review of Technical Drawing, Sourcing Material, and Providing Logistics Support
• Tracking of Hardware Progress, Scheduling, and Data-System Support and Accuracy
• Performing and Supporting Technical Assembly and Troubleshooting
• Ensuring Safety, Quality, Material Handling, and Team Coordination

Education

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent required.
• Technical, vocational, military, engineering-technology, industrial, or logistics training preferred.

Experience

Preferred:

• Minimum of four years of experience supporting industrial operations.
• Experience with production control, industrial logistics, hardware progressing, material research, or technical support.
• Experience using shop orders, engineering drawings, bills of material, procedures, and specifications.
• Experience troubleshooting equipment or component malfunctions.
• Experience using computerized production, maintenance, logistics, or inventory systems.
• Experience coordinating work among multiple shops or functional organizations preferred.
• Prior Department of Defense, depot, manufacturing, or government-facility experience preferred.

License, Cert or Registration

Required:

• U.S. citizenship is required due to the security-clearance and Government-access requirements of the position.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the personnel security eligibility required for assigned work, up to a DoD Secret clearance.
• Full medical certification, including an ordnance physical.
• Required equipment, process, HAZMAT, and safety qualifications must be obtained and maintained.

Strongly Preferred:

• Licensed and certified to operate a 6,000-pound electric forklift.
• Licensed and certified to operate a 6,000-pound diesel forklift.
• Licensed and certified to operate a CAT III overhead crane.
• Ability and experience operating a pallet jack and Big Joe stand-behind pallet lift.

Special knowledge, skills, & abilities

• Ability to manually lift up to 75 pounds may be required with this position.
• Ability to perform recurring technical work independently from initial instructions.
• Ability to select or adapt standard procedures using established precedents.
• Working knowledge of industrial production, material-control, and shop-order processes.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, and technical instructions.
• Ability to research material, vendors, components, and obsolescence issues.
• Ability to use ERP, SWMS, EQL, or comparable information systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and correct routine equipment or component malfunctions.
• Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, and status-reporting skills.
• Ability to recognize conditions requiring supervisory, engineering, or Government direction.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across technical, logistics, and production organizations.

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