# Engineering Technician

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Newport News, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $22.97 - $31.07 per hour
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As an Engineering Technician at GDIT, you will make meaningful contributions that fuel critical outcomes for complex government, defense, and intelligence projects.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

- Testing, repairing, installing, replacing, and troubleshooting electrical circuits, cables, equipment, and connectors

- Using hand tools and testing equipment to inspect and test electrical equipment, lighting, signal, communication, and power circuits

- Isolating defects in wiring, switches, motors, and other electrical equipment using general and specialized testing equipment

- Replacing faulty switches, sockets, and other elements of electrical systems

- Dismantling electrical machinery and replacing defective electrical or mechanical parts

- Mounting motors, transformers, and lighting fixtures into position and completing circuits according to diagram specifications

- Working from drawings, blueprints, schematics, and wiring diagrams

- Performing all work in accordance with established safety procedures

- Participating in special projects as required

- Obtaining necessary badges (DBIDS and shipyard)

- Working on and climbing ladders, in extreme temperature environments, aboard ships, in shipyards, under industrial conditions, and in confined spaces

- Lifting, carrying, and transporting heavy equipment and boxes up to 75 lbs

- Traveling within and outside of the continental United States for up to 20% of the time

Requirements:

- 1+ years of related experience

- Associates Degree in a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work experience

- Secret clearance required

- US Citizenship required

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Communications Testing
- Foundation Repairs
- Power Cables
- Radio Communications Systems

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