ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT MECHANIC (TITLE 32)

Duties

• Calibrates and repairs TMDE within support capability and authority including various levels of calibration as designated in technical bulletins, manuals, etc.
• Performs functional electronic, physical, and radioactive testing involving interpretation and analysis of measurement data, in accordance with cyclic inspection requirements.
• Aligns, troubleshoots, tests, inspects, repairs, modifies, calibrates and certifies precision measurement equipment such as multimeters, microwave equipment, oscilloscopes, temperature analyzers, mercurial barometers, gage blocks and micrometer.
• Aligns, troubleshoots, tests, inspects, repairs, modifies, calibrates and certifies precision measurement equipment such as caliper dimensional equipment, digital voltmeters, signal generators, torque wrenches, pressure gauges, and torque testers.
• Analyzes and isolates component malfunctions; calculates and determines tolerances; and performs tests and calibrations in accordance with instructions.
• Sets up system test sets and various types of test equipment.
• Diagnoses equipment, makes repairs, and replaces defective parts/components such as integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, electronic condition coils, radiation detector boards/circuits, crystals, transistors, tubes, and transformers.
• Diagnoses equipment, makes repairs, and replaces defective parts/components such as condensers, diodes, relays potentiometers, and related components.
• Following repair, tests by applying signals in known amplitude and wave shape into oscilloscopes to observe wave pattern.
• Completes necessary Army Maintenance Management System (TAMMS), calibration, radiation reports and other records and forms on work completed.
• Follows appropriate safety procedures, with special care being exercised while calibrating high voltage, radio frequency, radioactive sources and high-pressure instruments and gauges.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Individuals on incentive bonuses may be subject to recoupment or termination, contact the State Incentives Manager at (573) 638-9500 extension 39637 for questions concerning recoupment or termination.
• Placement or baseline physical are required for newly hired or appointed Wage Grade personnel who may be potentially exposed to health hazards in the work environment.
• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.
• This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.
• Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.
• NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact an Army National Guard recruiter at 1-800-GO-GUARD (1-800-464-8273) prior to applying for this position.
• This is an Excepted Service position that requires membership in the Missouri National Guard prior to the effective date of placement.
• Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform.
• Acceptance of an Excepted Service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment.
• Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement.
• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Individuals on incentive bonuses may be subject to recoupment or termination, contact the State Incentives Manager at (573) 638-9500 extension 39637 for questions concerning recoupment or termination.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Failure to complete management prescribed courses for full-time support personnel within the first year of employment or assignment, may be cause for reassignment or termination.
• Management retains the right to terminate the temporary promotion action without further notice. Selected individual will return to their former position when the temporary promotion is terminated.

Qualifications

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: Selected candidate must currently be assigned to a military unit in the Missouri Army National Guard. Title 32 employees will not be militarily senior to their full-time supervisor (grade inversion).

Maximum Military Grade - CW3 (W-3) with date of rank after 01 April 2025

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must possess experience or training which demonstrates a working knowledge of electronic principles involved in the generation and measurement of such elements as voltage, current, impedance, capacitance, frequency and inductance; and skilled in the use of various precision measurement instruments and standards.

WG-11 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess specialized experience in the practical application of operating principles of the production and utilization of oscillations over a broad range of frequencies; signal and waveform behavior distortion and amplification; pulse trigger and synchronization techniques, digital/analog processing and data conversion techniques; and a variety of display and indication of methods. The specialized experience must also include experience in the repair and maintenance of items such as microwave equipment, radar and missile test consoles, high frequency sampling and storage oscilloscopes, distortion analyzers, recording oscillographs and digital delay generators; diagnosing malfunctions and determining remedy where complex relationships exist among different electronic systems requiring knowledge of units and systems with possible damage to equipment if incorrectly handled; using precision equipment measurement instruments such as pulse generators, oscilloscopes, analyzers, frequency counters and vacuum tube voltmeters, etc.; and interpreting and applying a variety of technical electronic information such as schematic symbols, mathematical expressions and formulas, calibration procedures, and other reference materials.

Education

This job does not have a qualification requirement that allows substitution of education for specialized experience.

Additional information

Selective Service Act:
If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( ).