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Engineering Technician (Mechanical)
U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command
Department of the Army
Job Description
Summary
This job involves supporting the production and maintenance of ammunition and explosives in a U.S.
Army facility, where you'll troubleshoot issues on the manufacturing line, help design tools and layouts, and ensure everything runs smoothly to avoid delays.
It's ideal for someone with hands-on experience in mechanical work or manufacturing who enjoys solving technical problems in a team setting.
A good fit would be a detail-oriented technician comfortable working with materials like metals and plastics in a structured environment.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience in ammunition, munitions, or explosives manufacturing, including identifying and resolving technical problems using established policies and engineering methods
- Ability to support production-line operations through troubleshooting, process monitoring, and ensuring equipment readiness to minimize stoppages
- Experience making recommendations based on data interpretation and test results for technical reports or documents
- Knowledge of selecting appropriate materials (e.g., metals, alloys, plastics, nylon, Teflon) for tools, jigs, or fixtures in a manufacturing context
- Familiarity with continuous improvement tools such as lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, and total productive maintenance
- U.S. citizenship required
- Relevant paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, clearly described in resume
Full Job Description
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base & Major Range &Test Facilities Base to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: This position serves as an Engineering Technician (Mechanical) assisting Project Engineers in execution various ammunition, munitions, or explosives manufacturing production, renovation, or demilitarization programs for the activity.
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Identify and/or resolve technical problems in ammunition, munitions, or explosives manufacturing by applying established policies, procedures, and engineering methods.
2) Support production-line operations through troubleshooting, process monitoring, and equipment readiness to minimize line stoppages.
3) Make recommendations based on preliminary data interpretation and test results for technical reports or documents.
4) Select proper materials (metals, metal alloys, plastics, nylon, Teflon, etc.) for specific items, tools, tooling, jigs, or fixtures in a(n) ammunition, munitions, or explosives manufacturing environment, to be made, renovated, or broken down.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (NJ-02). Major Duties:
- Direct production-line support, including problem-solving, designing line layouts, process monitoring, line-leveling, equipment readiness, and troubleshooting line stoppages.
- Study, analysis, and consideration of several possible courses of action, techniques, general layouts, or designs and selection of the most appropriate materials for use in production.
- Work with teams in a manufacturing environment on process-improvement events using various tools of continuous improvement, including lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S, and total productive maintenance.
- Designs special tools, tooling, jigs, or fixtures used in a manufacturing environment.
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