# Communications Technician

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Richmond, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,750 - $155,250
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Communications Technician, you will be the foundation of the organization's effectiveness and the subject matter expert on the communication system for our government client. This includes providing oversight and management of communication systems procedures, processes, and planning to support customer requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Provide day-to-day management of deployable communications systems, including inventory control, routine testing, preparation for shipment and employment, as well as recovery and reconstitution.

- Order replacement components necessary to restore faulty equipment.

- Conduct training on communications systems.

- Assist the warehouse manager with routine warehouse operations.

- Support out-of-area exercises and operations.

- Provide support for day-to-day staff functions for the development and coordination of planning support policy, approaches, plans for exercises, and related communications systems and operations functions.

- Provide strategic and operational planning supporting mission readiness.

- Coordinate transportation, recovery, and reconstitution of communication systems, and the planning associated with supporting readiness exercises.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree and 10 years' experience maintaining and/or operating communication systems, including a minimum of 3 years logistics planning.

- Experience with classified comms is preferred.

- Active Top Secret with SCI Eligibility.

- Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).

- Strong organizational and time management skills, ability to work independently, management and communication skills, tact and diplomacy.

- Knowledge of best practices for communication systems and logistics.

- Ability to carry weight in excess of 25 pounds.

- Ability to travel up to 2 weeks at a time at least annually with smaller trips throughout the year.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience operating and troubleshooting RF communications systems, including HF, UHF/VHF, SATCOM, as well as IT systems.

- Experience in a SharePoint environment.

- DoD logistics experience.

Benefits:

- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.

- Dental plan options.

- Vision plan.

- 401(k) plan with company match.

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, 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
- Communication Systems
- Emergency Management
- Logistics
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- RF communications systems
- SharePoint environment
- DoD logistics experience

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