Navigation Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Boarhog is seeking an experienced Navigation Technician ready to join the team of engineers, technologists, and military veterans supporting the U.S. Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) on Wallops Island, Virginia. The selected candidate will configure, initialize and maintain the various Navigation systems including WSN-7, NAVSSI, GPNTS, FODMS and GEDMS. Our Navigation Tech will also work closely work with systems engineers to restore advanced combat system casualties, support fleet readiness events, and large multi-system multi-platform Operational test events

The SCSC provides live and simulated integrated warfare capabilities in a net-centric, maritime environment to develop, test, evaluate and conduct fleet operations and training for the warfighter. The AEGIS Complex provides support to AEGIS and AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Lifetime Support Engineering, Training, In-Service Engineering, Interoperability Testing, Engineering Initiatives, and Technical Research & Development required to maintain and upgrade the AEGIS and AEGIS BMD equipped fleet in war ready condition and fully capable of executing its mission.

Required Education & Experience

• High School/GED
• No less than three (3) years of demonstrated experience assessing, troubleshooting, and performing corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance on navigation systems.
• PQS 301 qualification is required. If selected candidate is not PQS 301 qualified on or before hire date, he/she must be willing and able to obtain PQS 301 qualification within three (3) months of employment.

Required Knowledge and Skills

The successful candidate must have knowledge of some of the following systems:

• WSN7
• NAVSSI
• GPNTS
• FODMS
• GEDMS

Preferred but not required:

• Navy Technical “C” school training or civilian/commercial equivalent in any one of the three SPY radar variants currently deployed in the Fleet
• UNIX-based open architecture experience; ability to understand UNIX-based program commands and local area network (LAN) theory
• troubleshooting and maintaining functional equipment areas of the AEGIS Combat System.
• Working closely with US Navy personnel, civilian government personnel and technical representatives from government contractors

Work Schedule

The successful candidate must be willing and able to perform in a variety of 40 hour work-week configurations, which may be scheduled on a rotational basis, including:

1. Monday-Friday (5 x 8): 1st Shift
2. Monday-Friday (5 x 8): 2nd Shift
3. Variable 4 x 10 shifts that may include weekends (4 days on/3 days off) and may be 1st or 2nd shift
4. Sliding (5 x 8) work weeks (Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday-Saturday) and may be 1st or 2nd shift

Security Clearance

• Active DoD Secret security clearance, or able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.
• The criteria for obtaining and holding a DoD clearance are driven by US government requirements, to include being a US citizen. If selected candidate is not in possession of an active Secret clearance, then he/she will receive a contingent offer and the start date will be delayed until an interim Secret clearance is granted.

Culture, Compensation and Benefits:

Boarhog has 13 years of defense industrial base steady, controlled growth and profitability, offering our full-time associates extensive compensation benefits:

• This position is covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA). The wage range for this position is determined by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor on a contract-by-contract basis.
• Opportunities for additional compensation supporting other projects.
• Medical / Dental / Vision Health Benefits.
• Self-Determination
• Generous 401K retirement plan after six months of full-time employment, with pre-tax/post-tax options and company matching with immediate vesting to boost retirement savings
• Health savings account.
• Vacation
• Stipend for residing in a HUBZone location (
• Relocation or small signing bonus, and earned performance bonus.

We thrive in a welcoming, family-like culture within a completely flat organization, with a vested interest in associates' personal and professional goals and aspirations. As a successful and respected Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVO) certified and Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) certified small business of professionals, there is no fat on the Boarhog... nobody has ever and will never make a living watching other associates do work. Boarhog associates therefore enjoy a culture self-determination, encouraged and supported to exercise greater control and make choices and manage their own lives, The result is an exceedingly low associate turnover rate (We're not a staffing company body shop), selectively hiring on average just three associates a year, and Boarhog's first associate is still with us. Once a Boarhog, always a Boarhog. The company Chief Executive and majority owner, a Navy Surface Warfare veteran retiree with decades of public sector systems acquisition experience, certifications and advanced education, actively engages in day-to-day operations and also periodically performs direct work on government and commercial contracts. Pigs in the breakfast... skin-in-the-game... story behind the logo. Come join us!

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