Early Warning Radar Operator Maintainer- Qatar

Role overview

Duties

• Operate and maintain the Qatar Early Warning Radar system and support engineering, logistics, maintenance, and operations teams.
• Plan, document, execute, and support radar operations and maintenance; respond to system issues across shifts.
• Collaborate with the System Integration Lab analysis team and systems and software engineers to document, develop, and implement solutions.
• Present findings and solutions to leadership or customers.
• Troubleshoot radar using field support equipment, diagnostics, unit self-tests, and built-in test equipment.
• Monitor complex RF system performance, isolate failures, and replace failed components.
• Plan and schedule maintenance using ALCS or equivalent systems.
• Provide technical advice to foreign military personnel on EWR operational and tactical procedures.
• Conduct OJT and participate in CMOC exercises using practice scenarios.
• Work rotating 12-hour shifts, respond to downing events, and perform physical duties in extreme environments.

Required qualifications

• Complete EWR console certification under the U.S. Air Force or an equivalent EWR contractor course.
• Have 5 years of experience testing, integrating, maintaining, aligning, adjusting, calibrating, and operating RF equipment associated with EWR systems.
• Have experience assessing complex RF performance, troubleshooting, isolating failures, and replacing components.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience, or 3 years with an advanced degree; the posting also allows experience to substitute for education and requires 10 years without a degree.
• An active, transferable U.S. government-issued Secret clearance is required before starting; U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility.

Preferred qualifications

• EWR system and subsystem operation and maintenance experience down to component level is preferred.
• Arabic literacy, CMOC exercise experience, ALCS or equivalent scheduling-system experience, and prior OJT participation are preferred.
• Experience advising foreign military personnel, coordinating with customers or contractors, and CORE Certification are preferred.

Work schedule

• The position requires rotating 12-hour shifts and may require responses to radar downing events.

Assignment and location details

• The role is described as an onsite long-term assignment in Qatar.
• The description also gives a U.S. work location and states that the role is U.S.-based, conflicting with the Qatar assignment information.

Compensation

• The stated salary range is USD 95,500–181,700; no pay cadence is specified.

Benefits

• Benefits may include healthcare, retirement, flexible work schedules, educational assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and other programs; eligibility depends on business unit and role coverage.