Full-Time
Electronics Technician Supervisor
Posted on 8/21/2026
Chickasaw Nation Industries
Federal services and business operations
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Charleston, SC, USA
Remote
Deployment to Antarctica is required for up to six months per year, including work at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields.
US Top Secret Clearance Required
Category
 Electrical Engineering (1) |
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Required Skills
CPR
Requirements
- A valid United States passport is required.
- Must be able to obtain a T1 clearance through the government customer.
- Must pass internal background checks.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- Must be able to perform job duties in extreme, cold, dark work environments.
- Must pass a medical and dental examination prior to deployment.
- Knowledge and experience performing hardware maintenance, including replacing and repairing hard drives, motherboards, video cards, RAM, CPUs, monitors, power supplies, network cards, printers, and other peripherals.
- Ability to follow directions and work independently or with a team.
- Ability to maintain reliable attendance and punctuality.
- Ability to practice and promote required safety standards.
- Skilled proficiency conducting audits and utilizing quality management systems.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to persuade others to accept recommendations and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions.
- Ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements.
- Organization, problem-solving, resolution, and critical-thinking skills.
- Customer-service and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) with formal training from a technical school or Class A or B military school in electronics or communications and four years of electronics apprentice programs.
- At least two years of practical experience in electronics repair, maintenance, and checkout.
- Four years of practical experience in electronics repair, maintenance, installation, and checkout, including two years of experience with aviation ground navigation systems, meteorology systems, or air-traffic communication systems.
- Ability to satisfy the physical qualification required for deployment to Antarctica.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Program Manager and CNI Talent Acquisitions to maintain staffing requirements for Electronics Technician positions in the NPP.
- Perform administrative functions for the Electronics Technician team, including timesheets, appraisals, training, and travel documents.
- Coach and train staff in established quality processes, procedures, and expected project deliverables.
- Lead, supervise, and mentor assigned staff; provide training and direction; and exercise supervisory personnel-management responsibilities.
- Oversee staff and exercise supervisory personnel-management responsibilities.
- Travel to Antarctica for up to six months per year as required.
- Work with the government project manager and support program needs at the sponsor level and with program stakeholders.
- Coordinate workshops and meetings, develop agendas, participate in planning sessions, generate meeting minutes, and track action items.
- Recommend policies, doctrine, tactics, and procedures.
- Coordinate and interface with Department of Defense, non-Department of Defense, and international participants in and outside the continental United States.
- Provide subject material for technical documentation, consult with management personnel, and prepare and conduct training relating to Aviation Command and Control projects and polar-environment research.
- Track and submit all Electronics Technician contract deliverables on time, including meeting agendas and minutes, plans of action and milestones, monthly status reports, trip reports, end-of-season and lessons-learned reports, position binders, standard operating procedures, and program-acquisition documents.
- Report operational readiness, capabilities, limitations, and reliability of installed systems.
- Maintain and verify work-center safety requirements and equipment.
- Submit work requests for facility repairs according to individual site processes.
- Collect and maintain equipment maintenance logs, equipment certification records, and inventory records.
- Review test equipment condition, calibration status, and requirements.
- Calibrate and repair sensors and test equipment.
- Assist with point papers, analyses, briefings, work groups, and other management-related tasks.
- Document and archive maintenance actions in a government computer-based tool, spreadsheet program, or handwritten log.
- Follow configuration-control and security policies and procedures.
- Schedule and conduct pre-deployment ground school, on-site training, and other required training.
- Maintain an accurate inventory of government-owned tools.
- Maintain current cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification for all technicians.
- Provide estimated airlift needs before each operational season.
- Follow frequency-management policies and procedures.
- Ensure spare-parts and component inventories are accurate and adequate.
- Conduct authorized equipment modification, installation, and removal.
- Prepare updated drawings and technical documentation reflecting system and equipment status and changes.
- Prepare routine and special reports.
- Support flight checks and certifications of airfield systems.
- Ensure assigned equipment operates according to applicable technical specifications and operational directives.
- Ensure full-time technicians meet deployment requirements for United States Antarctic Program stations.
- Verify that deploying technicians possess valid driver's licenses.
- Ensure technicians obtain and maintain qualification to operate light vehicles at United States Antarctic Program stations unless otherwise stated.
- Provide maintenance support up to 24 hours per day, seven days per week, at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields.
- Provide maintenance support for systems requiring technicians to travel by helicopter, light airplane, or cargo aircraft.
- Maintain a written Master Station Log of maintenance activity, equipment status, changes, and significant events.
- Measure and report operational availability of systems.
- Maintain and follow system-outage reporting procedures, including report times, report type, content, and follow-up reports.
- Develop and provide incident, accident, and other post-action emergent reports by required due dates.
- Maintain systems according to applicable Department of Defense and non-Department of Defense information-security requirements.
- Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of navigational aids systems.
- Ensure proper navigational-aids sighting and installation according to applicable instructions.
- Initiate requests for flight checks according to established processes.
- Ensure voice-recording and data-recording media is managed and secured according to established directives.
- Ensure sufficient certified technicians are present to set up, maintain, and remove navigational aids at McMurdo Station and other airfields.
- Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of communications systems.
- Ensure proper communications-system installation according to applicable instructions.
- Maintain communications-circuit access during contingency and backup operations.
- Ensure sufficient certified technicians are present to set up, maintain, and remove communications systems at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields.
- Assist technicians with communications components, devices, and subsystems within navigational-aids and meteorology systems.
- Provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repair of meteorology systems.
- Ensure sufficient certified technicians are present to set up, maintain, and remove meteorology systems at McMurdo Station and surrounding airfields.
- Attend required safety training and perform maintenance and repair away from the normal work center, including deep-field camps and remote automated observation stations.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with navigational-aids, communications, and/or meteorological equipment is a plus.
Chickasaw Nation Industries is a federally chartered corporation owned by the Chickasaw Nation and organized as a family of operating companies. It supports United States government agencies and commercial customers with technology, professional services, healthcare, construction, manufacturing and mission-support capabilities. Individual subsidiaries pursue and deliver contracts while shared corporate functions provide governance and operational support. CNI’s commercial activity also helps generate economic value for the Chickasaw Nation, giving the organization both a federal contracting role and a broader tribal enterprise mission.
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