Maintains, trouble shoots, and repairs a variety of equipment used in the long-term monitoring of physical phenomena including (but not limited to) UV spectroradiometers, GPS receivers, VLF radio receivers, neutron and radio-nuclide detectors, seismometers, magnetometers, photometers, interferometers, air sampling units, and other instruments.
Collects, archives, and transmits data and status reports to project researchers.
Collects and prepares samples for shipment, maintains inventory of flasks and works with logistics department to ensure adequate flask inventory for the next season.
Regularly employs ingenuity and creativity to develop new technical solutions and systems in order to achieve functional objectives.
Uses digital and analog electronic equipment to diagnose and repair instruments and computer hardware failures.
Supports Grantees by ensuring timely problem resolution, minimizing data collection interruptions, and notifying grantees of outages, issues, and maintenance schedules.
Maintains appropriate project logbooks, documents and email records.
Updates standard operating procedures.
Administers, operates, and maintains computer-based data acquisition systems.
Coordinates with the IT department on computer configurations and networking topology issues such as firewall access and IP addresses.
Receives and inventories capital equipment, instruments, materials, and supplies.
Maintains accurate inventory of spare parts for equipment and instruments, and prepares resupply lists.
Assists with life-cycle management and informs grantees or staff on replacement timelines.
Occasionally conducts briefings on research and tours of facilities for distinguished visitors.
Performs other duties as required.
SITE-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PALMER STATION:
Calibrates and repairs meteorological, thermosalinograph, and tide gauge instrumentation.
Collects and distributes encoded synoptic weather reports in conformance with WMO standards.
Operates and maintains a weather satellite tracking antenna.
Knowledge of low-earth-orbit (LEO) and polar orbit satellite systems, and multi-spectral image processing.
Demonstrates understanding of visible, infrared, and microwave imagery products.
Provides real-time imagery, remote-sensing support, and other data as needed for logistical and operational concerns as requested by research vessel or operations personnel.
Maintains, operates, and repairs meterological equipment and weather towers, including programming MATLAB, python, Access, SQL and powershell scripts to integrate data with network.
Manual labor as needed including excavating buried experiments and station maintenance.
Community duties which will include washing dishes and cleaning common areas.
Participation on an Emergency Response Team (ERT) is highly required. Examples are the Fire Brigade, Trauma Team and Search and Rescue.

Requirements

Requires deep understanding of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of technical domain and has broad understanding of other related specialty areas.
Typically requires BS and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.
Experience accepted in lieu of education.
Must be able to work independently to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on operational results or project deliverables.
Good organizational and time management skills.
Fluency with networking topics and file transfer tools required.
Administrator familiarity for Macintosh and Linux/Unix platforms required.
Must be a US Citizen or green card holder.

Benefits

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

troubleshootingrepairing equipmentdata collectiondata transmissioncalibrationprogrammingMATLABPythonSQLPowerShell

Soft Skills

ingenuitycreativityproblem resolutionorganizational skillstime managementindependent workcommunicationteam participation