Early Warning Radar Operator Maintainer- Qatar

Role overview

Work arrangement

• The role is described as onsite and requires a long-term assignment in Qatar.
• The posting also lists a U.S. location in El Paso, Texas and states that the role is U.S.-based.
• Work includes rotating 12-hour shifts, 24/7 issue response, and work in extreme environments.

Radar operations and technical support

• Plan, document, execute, and support radar operations and maintenance; respond to system issues across shifts.
• Support engineering, logistics, maintenance, and operations teams to ensure system performance.
• 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.

Troubleshooting and maintenance

• Use field support equipment to troubleshoot radar systems and perform diagnostics, unit self-tests, and built-in test equipment checks.
• Assess complex RF system performance, monitor operations, isolate failures, and replace failed components.
• Plan and schedule maintenance using ALCS or equivalent systems.
• Provide technical assistance to foreign military personnel on operational and tactical procedures for the EWR system.

Training and shift duties

• Conduct on-the-job training and participate in exercises using practice scenarios within the CMOC.
• Work rotating 12-hour shifts and respond to downing events as required.
• Lift up to 50 pounds, walk up and down eight flights of stairs, and work in extreme environments.

Required qualifications

• Successful completion of Early Warning Radar console certification under the U.S. Air Force or an equivalent EWR contractor course.
• Five years of experience testing, integrating, maintaining, aligning, adjusting, calibrating, and operating RF equipment associated with Early Warning Radar systems.
• Experience assessing complex RF systems, monitoring and troubleshooting, isolating failures, and replacing components.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of experience, or at least three years with an advanced degree; the education section allows experience substitution and specifies ten years without a degree.
• An active, transferable U.S. government-issued Secret clearance is required before start; U.S. citizenship is required for eligibility.

Preferred qualifications

• Early Warning Radar operations and maintenance down to component level and experience advising foreign military personnel are preferred.
• Arabic literacy, CMOC exercise experience, ALCS or equivalent maintenance planning tools, OJT delivery, and customer coordination are preferred.
• CORE Certification is preferred.

Compensation and benefits

• The listed salary range is USD $95,500–$181,700; no compensation cadence is specified.
• Eligible benefits may include health coverage, retirement matching, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
• Annual incentive compensation may be available depending on role level and other factors; payments are not guaranteed.